Posted on 05/03/2024 7:17:50 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
Major-General Vadym Skibitsky, plays a nautical theme. Blunt, enigmatic and sharp as a captain’s hook, he exudes many of the qualities that have made HUR one of the most talked about secret services in the world. But he sounds troubled as he assesses Ukraine’s battlefield prospects. Things, he says, are as difficult as they have ever been since the early days of Russia’s full-scale invasion. And they are about to get worse.
He predicts that Russia will first press on with its plan to “liberate” all of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions, a task unchanged since 2022. He says a Russian order has gone out to “take something” in time for the pomp of Victory Day in Moscow on May 9th, or, failing that, before Vladimir Putin’s visit to Beijing a week later. The speed and success of the advance will determine when and where the Russians strike next. “Our problem is very simple: we have no weapons. They always knew April and May would be a difficult time for us.”
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Even if they had the weapons today, would they have the men to operate them?
No, but they have the women to operate them ineffectively.
No weapons? None? Gross exaggerations don’t help to eliminate propaganda accusations.
Sidenote: the writer watches too many movies, or reads too many novels. Saying, ‘sharp as a captain’s hook’, is talk straight from fantasyland.
Yep, and the author is a Pro Uke Nazi Propagandist shilling for more money for Ukraine. This eliminates the possibility of Russian Propaganda.
How Peter Pan is that writing! J. M. Barrie would be proud to be "ripped off."
Yep, that flourish was the reason I figured a way to post from The Economist without subscribing through their paywall.
I probably could have gotten by using Brave in Developer mode, however I had what I needed to make the author look like an eleven year old moron.
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