Posted on 09/19/2023 6:43:29 AM PDT by MNDude
As leading American politicians, generals, and pundits continue advocating for open-ended support to Kyiv in their war against Russia, a sober, accurate analysis of Ukraine's nearly completed summer offensive reveals that the heroic sacrifice Ukraine continues to make is producing little to no meaningful progress toward the objective of evicting Russia from Ukraine's territory.
Despite great hopes for a rapid success, Ukraine's months-in-the-making offensive has sputtered from the outset. That shouldn't have surprised anyone in the White House. On April 5, two months before the start of the offensive, I wrote that "Zelensky's troops—with little to no air power and a dearth in artillery ammunition—could suffer egregious casualties while gaining little.
About a month before the start of the offensive, I again warned that the odds were stacked heavily against Kyiv. To succeed, I explained, Ukraine would "have to conduct the most difficult task in modern land warfare: a combined arms operation into the teeth of a dug-in enemy force that is prepared for an attack," complicated by the shortage of artillery ammunition along with "limited airpower and minimal air defense." Nevertheless, on the eve of battle, some Western analysts remained optimistic.
While this change did result in producing incremental gains, the cost was exorbitant. On Aug. 29, the BBC reported that new leaked reports suggested Ukrainian battle deaths exploded since the offensive started. Whereas Ukraine was reported to have lost 17,500 troops in the first year of the war, it is presently assessed to have lost a breathtakingly high 50,000 additional deaths, for a total of 70,000 dead and 120,000 wounded.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Does this put Daniel Davis on the Ukraine hit list for Russian propaganda?
One would think that American taxpayers deserve an ACCURATE WAR ASSESSMENT if we are to continue funneling BILLIONS to Ukraine. This should not be political, if we are unable to provide a solid assessment, with trillions invested in our military and intelligence, then we might as well shut down our entire government
THIS IS KREMLIN PROPAGANDA
WE NEED US TROOPS ON THE GROUND NOW TO DEFEAT THAT EVIL PUTIN. WE NEED BILLIONS MORE DOLLARS.
MORE, I TELL YA, MORE!!!
(Wipes spittle from corner of mouth and yells at Mom from basement to bring more Mountain Dew)
So says Newsweak- one of the media outlets that has been hiding the truth.
Which begs the questions - What changed? And who told Newsweak to start this change in propaganda?
Gee what happened? Think we’ve been lied too....
Aldo L
4h ago
Daniel Davis is a known Putin lover and an incompetent military, I just wonder how he got his commission
Not just him. All of Newsweek also
>> Does this put Daniel Davis on the Ukraine hit list for Russian propaganda?
Yup. That Ukie tranny is going to pay HIM a special personal visit. Heshe will get up in his face and snarl and threaten him.
And he will die laughing. :-)
Senior Fellow of some organization somewhere. People are all around the issues of Ukrainian victory or loss, strategy and tactic, but the most important thing about the conflict is that it is a sink for resources and a siphon for money. The political elite rulers are funding the conflict with military equipment they don’t own and money that goes into their own pockets as kickbacks and bribes. The people of Ukraine are completely expendable to them. I expect the war to continue until Ukraine can’t field any more troops and maybe longer with American soldiers if we don’t put a stop to it.
Dam Breaking... Or, at least starting to leak.
I think this is how they get rid of Biden.
Blame Ukraine on Biden, and start to “re-look” at Afghan debacle.
(allow the press to start calling the withdrawl the complete CF that it was)
>> Oh look, they’re already working the Newsweek comments:
Has the look ‘n feel of a FR Zeeper thread!
Zelenski apparently keeps lying to get his greedy hands on US tax dollars.
We have only his “word”.....his “glowing reports” on the Ukranian “successes”
and Russian “failures” in the eternal war being waged.
...and the thing, even then Operatives knew this would be the outcome (probably better than the rest of us).
UKRAINE CAN WIN THIS WAR if we conscripted every blood relative of ALL Federal Employee’s between the age of 17-35 and sent them to the Front Lines to Fight for their Families wishes...in Ukraine.
Time for Zelensky to sit down at the negotiating table. Although he now has zero negotiating power.
>> I think this is how they get rid of Biden.
You might be right. But I don’t want the ‘rats to get rid of Biden!
I want PRESIDENT TRUMP to get rid of Biden in Nov. ‘24.
Heretic! We must fight to the last Ukrainian to defend Ukraine’s border from Disenfranchised voters in Crimea and Donbas who seceded after the Euromaidan, and their Russian allies!! Damn the Torpedoes!!! NUTS!!!! We’ve Got them right where we want them!!!!!
The pimp is in the US as we speak to grift more money.
What an insane Biden fiasco... a futile meat grinder that's going to get worse. I'm assuming Biden's Ukrainian friends made a killing selling our weapons on the black market... and pocketing much of the 113 billion in American taxpayer dollars so at least 'their elites' benefited.
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