Aren't you just projecting? 🤔🤔🤔
Posted on 10/16/2024 12:01:36 AM PDT by McGruff
Russia has recaptured half of the territory it lost to Ukraine in Kursk, a region central to Volodymyr Zelensky’s plan to defeat Vladimir Putin.
A senior Russian commander from Chechnya said that an estimated 50,000 troops were pushing back Ukrainian forces, who either had to flee or “end up in the cauldron”.
Well-connected Russian and Ukrainian military bloggers have been reporting since Saturday that Moscow’s troops have punched through sectors of Ukraine’s front lines in Kursk.
Mr Zelensky has insisted that the situation has stabilised
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
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The very name, “Kursk”, is holy to the Putin-Bolsheviks.
Losing it once is a symbolic loss, but not essential to advancing to Ukraine’s borders.
The Kursk capture helped to divert Russian military resources away from Donetsk, embarrassed Russia internationally, and messed-up the Kremlin dictator’s plans for a fall offensive
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
Zelensky must be channeling John Belushi and binge watching Animal House on Netflix in his increasingly embattled Fuhrer Bunker in an undisclosed location on the outskirts of Kiev.
As Otter so eloquently put it in Animal House all those years ago, “I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h4DZeBleLs
And all the while another 50,000 people are dead since the ill fated and ironically termed "Kursk Offensive" and more of the Ukraine is reduced to rubble and the US and NATO have squandered so much on keeping the proxy war going in the last year or so that there is no longer money left for rebuilding the devastation in post war Ukraine , but that's OK because a lot of Russians are dead and we sure showed Putin and Putin is really, really bad guy.
Putin is trying to maximize the territory he possesses prior to the two parties being strong armed into a settlement by President Trump.
If you were around in 1940, you’d be advising everyone NOT to fight back against the Nazis, because it will “just create more bloodshed”
lol
Note: The Ukes are losing men and falling back across all fronts.
Kursk was a turkey shoot for Russia
Shortfalls in men and materiel have Russia turning to desperate expedients. These include: making Russian sailors and prison guards into soldiers; putting poorly trained green conscripts into combat; recruiting foreigners to the war effort, often under false pretenses; and hiring combat soldiers and buying munitions from North Korea.
Russia is even using civilian trucks and cars as transport on the front lines. Sending unready, poorly equipped, and unwilling conscripts into combat in stolen trucks and compact euro sedans is not the mark of a winning army.
Such measures do not address Russia's fundamental lack of resources and her defective military organization and doctrine. In addition, Russia's economy and state and private finances are under increasing stress and risk falling into crisis in 2025. Meanwhile, Ukraine shows no signs of buckling and continues to wear out her large but clumsy opponent. The coming year looks to be the culminating point of Russia's war effort.
The oligarchs are restive and are urging Putin to make peace. Yet Putin fears -- with good reason -- that the Russian populace would turn on him once it became inescapably clear in a peace deal that Russia had no victory and no gains proportional to her losses. Putin and his circle of loyalists hope that war weariness and the expected new Trump administration will provide peace next year on easy terms for Russia.
Contrary to Democratic and media propaganda, once back in office, Trump is likely to force a cease fire and then peace terms on Russia that provide a veiled de facto Ukrainian and American victory. After all, although Trump wants peace, the point of MAGA is not just peace, but peace on terms that serve American interests. That means Ukraine secure and gradually restored in full to her territory as the price of peace and sanctions relief for Russia.
Such a deal could ease Putin out or permit him to remain in power as a transitional figure like Franco, isolated and diminished but providing a symbolic source of stability and continuity. In any event, the inducement to Putin would be that he is permitted to die peacefully in bed and provide for his children. Meanwhile, Russia will become an ally of sorts to the US and NATO against China and Iran.
Is such a deal impossible? Not really, at least not for a self-made billionaire New York real estate developer who improbably became President, was defeated for reelection, then took on and beat his political and legal adversaries and clawed his way back into the Presidency. Putin is no doubt infuriated by Biden the warmaker, but he has greater cause to fear Trump as a peacemaker at the negotiating table.
In 1940 most United States citizens didn’t want to join Europe’s war.
FDR wanted it to cover up his failed policies.
Don’t know what it was like in Canada.
So you are saying basically Ukraine is winning, Sure Jan.
You do know that Russia is taking Ukrainian territory at 4 times the rate of their progress prior to May of this year? The Ukraine is collapsing and the public in the West will be the last to know thanks to censorship and propaganda from your fellow communist travelers.
May I have some of your hopium?
Z-Man’s “Victory Plan” is DOA.
In strategic terms, the Russo-Ukraine War is a stalemate. No one is winning.
Actually, Russia is on the brink of failure.
The Russian oil business is being destroyed one refinery at a time. The Ruble is in peril. Chechna is in revolt. etc etc....
Russia will win this war of attrition without having to make sweeping territorial gains right away. The Kursk incursion played directly into Putin’s strategic attrition plan.
The Telegraph used to be a respected conservative newspaper, but like other once-respected UK media, they have allowed themselves to slide into an irrational warmongering stance toward Russia.
Aren't you just projecting? 🤔🤔🤔
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