Posted on 03/03/2023 10:01:50 PM PST by Salvavida
Summary: Strategic analysis by former US Marine Intelligence Officer and UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter. His analysis is structured into three main parts:
Thesis: Ukraine/NATO Fooled Around and will Find Out (FAFO)
1. How we got here. Ukraine/NATO Fooled Around; the war is predicated on the 2008 move to invite Ukraine into NATO, and the 2014 coup. The United States played a major role in how this war started.
2. Where we are at. Russia is in a training phase of the main force-- it has not engaged yet. 300k mobilized (not part of the peacetime force) + another 100-180K volunteers. Ukraine war dead is approximately 300-350K matching the US total war dead from WWII. Meanwhile, the previous force structures (that were wholly inadequate to capture significant portions of Ukraine, are continuing to probe the Ukrainian lines and conducting shaping operations.
3. How it ends. Ukraine will Find Out. The main force engages and rolls the Ukrainian army take a tsunami. Russia gets all of its territory + 150 kilometers to account for maximum range of HIMARS artillery system. Ukraine ceases to exist in its current form.
Thanks for posting!
“Ukraine war dead is approximately 300-350K”
I really doubt this. What’s his source?
What’s his source?
Aside from that, I don’t think we will know until after its concluded, but it will be horrific.
I started watching with skepticism thinking it would be another sales pitch for war seeing it was from a military guy and ended up agreeing 100%( except I have no way to affirm that 300,000 death figure)
The “Mossad” figure is alleged to be so by a Turkish news site, with no specific source given.
The same is the case also, BTW, of the shopping spree by Madame Zelensky.
There is endless made-up rumor plus official propaganda and unofficial propaganda.
Don’t bother with such stuff. If there is video or photos then go with that. That’s why Oryx is the best available to we groundlings.
Thank u
Nobody is 100% accurate on this but the servile media simply lies at a level i once thought impossible
Aside from casualties, Ukraine has lost something like a fourth to a third of its pre-war population just to emigration. That many people have boogied and interviews indicate that they are not coming back. No nation can survive that. That is called voting with their feet...
you claim to be ex-military intelligence, yet you fall for the Russian lies and propaganda?
Aside from that, I don’t think we will know until after its concluded, but it will be horrific.
That’s almost the same number of deaths the Germans suffered in Operation Barbarossa.
Better question - why is there so little actual coverage?
The “sources” either don’t exist or they’re being controlled/manipulated.
He hasn’t been wrong yet
Last time I looked, Scott Ritter is neither Russian, nor is he a purveyor of propaganda. Instead he has spent many years of his life assessing the capabilities of Russia.
I guess you think you are on the right side because you buy into the propaganda from the side of NATO, the U.K., and the U.S., even though they have been exposed many times as not reporting the truth. If you think I make that statement lightly, then that is yet another conclusion you've gotten wrong. I love my nation, but I do not love what it has become. It's no where near the nation that I was born into. No where near the nation both my father & grandfather fought for in WWII either.
None so blind as those who do not see. Even worse, when they can't distinguish good from evil.
Anyone who wants to know the truth, need only look at the fact that the WEF & elites are supporting Ukraine. The same WEF who wants to ensure that you will have nothing, and that you will be happy. The same people who silenced freedom of speech squelching the voices of conservative thinkers during the pandemic. The same people who pushed the narrative that only a "vaccine" would return the lives of free people back to "normal". In fact, I contend they are the ones behind the "plandemic", and are the ones who made great amounts of money from the manufactured virus who intent was to get rid of Trump, as well as, thin the herd.
After all, these are the same people who have been pushing the narrative that human population must be lowered to a sustainable number for decades.
Yet, you keep supporting their evil. Wale up and start to realize what you think you are supporting is not what you should be supporting. You are only bringing pain & anguish to the people of Ukraine.
they say that when Ukrainians are sent to the front line,
their life expectancy is about 4 hours
The US money going to Ukraine is an unprecedented amount, never before seen.
https://securityassistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Ukraine-Costs-Fact-Sheet-v2.pdf
Yeah, that too, but since he is Canadian I didn’t think he would care if we are continuing to bankrupt this nation, even though he should, because if we fall Canada falls as well.
“they say that when Ukrainians are sent to the front line,
their life expectancy is about 4 hours”
So much propaganda in all reports of this war. The 4 hour life expectancy was EXACTLY the number quoted to me for Russian troop survival at the front by an inside connected source yesterday.
I suppose that everyone life expectancy is 4 hours at the front, or it’s all propaganda.
Well, one guy said it, one ordinary guy, a volunteer, about one particular period at one front.
I hear you, I don’t think the true numbers will be known until this is all over with. But when General Milley says the best American intelligence sources say 100,000 Ukrainian KIA and 100,000 Russian KIA split evenly down the middle......I know that is way off.
I’ll try to give him a call and ask him.
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