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.
Winning their war is not the goal of the Euro oligarchs.
Getting rich off the war is a higher priority.
I’m weary of hearing creatures such as Macron encouraging the continuance of the killing and destruction in Ukraine. The loss of Ukrainian and Russian lives in that war needs to stop. And the bleeding of American taxpayers’ wealth to continue the war NEEDS TO STOP.
I'm picturing him running around the room, fanning himself with both hands and generally acting like Dylan Mulvaney.
But seriously folks, I very much doubt he's anything like "panicked."
So, wifey is a diversion from leaked Ukraine reports?
Or, is it Ukraine reports now a diversion from “wifey”???
Hard to keep these DSC psyops straight
The Press United is an international digital newspaper based in New Delhi, India.
Uke spooks right on cue. Like clockwork.
Macron is an idiot and I’m hoping to see Le Pen get in there next. Actually I’m hoping for a red wave of conservatives to take over Europe.
Putin can stop it right now by stopping all attacks against Ukraine and pulling all his troops back into Russia.
The Daily Mail is in Londonistan.
Ok, globalist Snake.
See here: Macron ‘panicked’ over leaked Ukraine reports – Marianne
Surprise!!! It's a creation of Russian State media!
Very reminiscent of 1938. I guess Macro is counting on France’s “Esprit de Corps”...
There’s a few Freepers that still spew the nonsense out of Kiev, Brussels and Langley.
Most out of ignorance.
Some as part of the disinformation effort.
Thanks for that. Good work !
This was ALWAYS an unwinnable war for Ukraine, without NATO putting their troops on the ground there is no way Ukraine could win.
Z being an idiot, should have understood the geopolitical realities of his nation, rather than listening to people whispering sweet nothings in his ear, promising him lies and falsehoods.
Putin may have invaded anyway, but best case for Ukraine would be to deny quick victory, show Russia they would pay a high cost to continue, and then push for some soft of peace treaty... Instead, we are now years into a slog, in which Ukraine has been flattened and an entire generation of Ukrainian young men have been killed.
Letting himself being conned into a proxy war for the west, was a fools errand. Instead they have just watched their nation be destroyed and their citizenry and young men slaughtered for years now, and still not actively making a peace treaty a priority.
The west should be ashamed of themselves for this entire mess as far as I’m concerned.
It’s a never ending job around here with this lot.
“Another one of those phony pro-Kremlin “news” sites that we’ve been tracking....”
Who’s “we”?
This article provides a link to the original French source.
Do you have evidence this is false information?
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