Posted on 03/13/2024 12:05:58 PM PDT by Kazan
A series of classified documents has debunked Western narratives about Kiev’s battlefield prospects
French President Emmanuel Macron’s talk about maybe sending troops to aid Kiev may have been spurred by three assessments produced by the French military that painted a dire picture of the Ukraine conflict, according to the magazine Marianne.
The reports, which have somehow found their way into the weekly’s possession, argued that Ukraine wrecked its Western-trained force in the failed 2023 offensive, has run out of men to mobilize, and that its recent loss in Avdeevka shows it can’t even hold the line against Russia.
“Ukraine cannot win this war militarily,” concludes the first report, written in the fall of 2023, following Kiev’s disastrous ground offensive. It praises the Russian forces as the new “tactical and technical” standard of how to run defensive operations and debunks the media myth of “meat assaults.”
For the West to continue pursuing a military solution in Ukraine would be “the most serious error of analysis and judgment,” the classified document said, according to Marianne.
Sending French troops to Ukraine would be “unreasonable,” one senior officer wrote. “Make no mistake, up against the Russians we are an army of cheerleaders!” he added.
The second report, outlining the prospects for 2024, says that Kiev needs 35,000 men per month but is “recruiting less than half” of that number, while Russia enlists 30,000 volunteers monthly. Meanwhile, the 2023 offensive “tactically destroyed” half of Kiev’s 12 combat brigades.
“The West can provide 3D printers to manufacture drones or loitering munitions, but will never be able to print men,” the report said.
One solution it advised was sending Western troops to Ukraine to carry out support tasks in the rear, freeing the Ukrainians for frontline duty.
The second report also acknowledged the Western special forces and “soldiers in civilian clothes” had a far greater presence in Ukraine than officially acknowledged, including “quite a few British,” as well as French naval commandos training the Ukrainians.
The third and latest report, which had the French observers “in cold sweat,” described the Battle of Avdeevka as a possible “rout” of Ukrainian forces. It described how Russia created “hell” for the Ukrainian troops by using massive glide bombs to inflict more than 1,000 casualties per day. The French document also described the Ukrainian retreat on February 17 as “sudden and unprepared.”
At the end of February, Macron made an argument to NATO members that all options for helping Ukraine should be “on the table,” implying the possibility of sending ground troops. The idea was publicly repudiated by most members of the US-led bloc, however.
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They are Russians though.
Let’s not forget that there are 1.5 million Russians (most of Russia’s (intelligentsia) who fled Russia right after the Kremlin decided to launch its war. They totally disagree with this mess, they are denouncing this for-ever-war managed by the deep-staters in the Kremlin. Those people had enough money to flee. Some of them are willing to risk their lives confronting the Kremlin - like that group you were talking about.
And anyway, Putin has put Russia in complete lock-down now, no Russians can flee anymore. Just like it was during the Soviet era. I like the Russian people.
But I can’t stand their warmongering big-government über-alles system.
BTW, Russia LIBERATED the territory it conducted its special military operation in. The oblasts in question voted for Yanukovych and had NO obligation to remain part of Ukraine after an illegal coup that installed a new government. Ethnic Russians were no obligation to remain part of government that persecuted them.
Don't like it? TOO DAMN BAD.
So you are still drinking the Nazi Kool-Aid?
Never have drank NAZI cool aid; my Father spent 3 years of his life killing those bastards while with the 11th Armored Division of Patton’s 3rd Army, I spent 2 years of my life killing Reds with 3 Bat 12th Marines so I guess you can just ESAD.
Yet you regurgitate the false narrative of Russia killing Nazis in Ukraine -when the majority of the most successful fighters for Russia have been - avowed and well-marked Nazis. Russia has a FAR larger problem with supposed “Nazis” than Ukraine ever thought of.
So - if your father spent 3 years of his life “killing those bastards” (and I have no reason to doubt that), then don’t dishonor his service by drinking the Pro-Russian propaganda cool aid.
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