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Posted on 05/17/2023 8:24:16 PM PDT by Kazan
Over the last week Ukrainian officials have been insisting that the long-promised counter offensive is delayed until the West can pony up more tanks, ammunition, artillery and other weapons. But, there has been a noticeable uptick in Ukrainian attacks on Russian positions. These assaults apparently were carried out as a symbolic gesture to appease Western demands that Ukraine do something to the Russians.
You can tell that the Ukrainian attacks have been a bust by the very subdued reporting of the activity in the Western press. John Helmer of Dances With Bears provides a grim summary of the effort:
On May 12, in the first day of their scheme, 1,725 Ukrainian men were killed on the Donbass front. This is the worst day’s military casualty rate since the US coup in Kiev launched the war in February 2014.
According to the Financial Times, this killing didn’t happen. Instead, the headline reads: “Ukrainian counter-offensive takes shape with the first gains around Bakhmut.” The Washington Post announced likewise: “How Ukrainian forces denied Russia victory in Bakhmut by Victory Day”. The New York Times repeated: “Ukraine’s Advances Near Bakhmut Expose Rifts in Russian Forces”. According to this propaganda, these successes were bloodless on the Ukrainian side.
A NATO forces veteran observes: “An entire regiment has been destroyed. This is cynical trading in flesh.
In fact, what happened on the battlefield was dozens of Ukrainian troop movements in different directions along a front of more than ninety kilometres.
According to the NATO veteran, “this is more propaganda offensive than real offensive. They scraped together enough gear, ammunition and manpower to make a barely audible tactical bang. It’s a punch with nothing behind it. Those guys are already dead. This isn’t even wishful thinking. It’s cynical trading in flesh.”
Helmer’s report coincides with recent postings on Ukrainian Telegram channels of row after row of fresh graves in three Ukrainian cities — Khmelnytskyi, Cherkassy and Transcarpathia. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then these video clips are worth a library of books.
https://youtu.be/1hTT4uYWqH0
https://youtu.be/3KW4Nz-Od9k
https://youtu.be/-pwG3yB-4QY
At some point, Ukraine is going to run out of men to bury. Russia, if you have been paying attention, has been lashing military and logistic targets throughout Ukraine with an unrelenting barrage of missiles and bombs for the past ten days and shows no sign of easing off.
In tandem with Russia’s shellacking of the Ukrainian military, the ham handed CIA allegedly put out a recruiting video worthy of Monty Python. Only one problem. The CIA apparently is dead-ass serious about trying to convince some sad Russians to abandon the clean subways of Moscow for the shit-covered streets of San Francisco.
Yeah, we just need to send a few billion more worthless weapons to the Ukes for the Russians to destroy. Haha, what’s really disgusting is the number of “conservatives” that still get on their knees for the neocon empire building schemes that always end in billions of lost money and dead people. Haha wait, I’m sure a blue and yellow flag in your bio will fix everything.
There will be winner. There will be an energy supplier to Europe. So our choice as conservatives is do we want American energy supply to Europe or do we want to Make Russia Great Again? That choice is good American energy jobs here or more resources for those Russians, etc., who wish our destruction. Decisions, decisions.
“There will be winner. There will be an energy supplier to Europe. So our choice as conservatives is do we want American energy supply to Europe or do we want to Make Russia Great Again? That choice is good American energy jobs here or more resources for those Russians, etc., who wish our destruction. Decisions, decisions.”
While I agree that blowing up Germany’s natural gas pipelines is a shot in the arm for (American) Big Oil, actually, the winner will be China as they make the solar panels, windmills, and batteries that Europe will soon be (nearly) 100% reliant on.
Russia’s clear goal is to not get dragged into this new-world energy system and maintain the capability to export their resources to the 85% of the world that has NOT sanctioned them.
We could have continued to support sane free market solutions of energy production domestically. More fracking and more drilling, etc. and won in an open market competition to provide cheaper energy sources. Then no one needed to die.
I prefer not to use war as a means to make money.
So you’d prefer Russia have more resources available to attack us as they have historically? Interesting.
Its still raining in Ukraine - they are waiting for better weather and some necessary Western equipment.
Previous dates were just internet guesses - and not official.
The minor UA assaults on the southern and northern flanks of Bakhmut have already taken over 20km.
Meanwhile the PMC has advanced a few blocks further into the the city, while placing itself in further danger of encirclement.
The Russian regulars took a small chunk near Krimina in the north. Nothing significant and is not confirmed.
UA forces are accumulating in the Kherson region.
I’d prefer not to kill anyone for profit. We can beat russia through economics when it comes to oil and gas.
Since you raised the point, why is your first choice war and death over market competition?
LOL. “No blood for oil!” Where have I heard that before? Russia again choses war, genocide and mass murder on a smaller neighbor. How Americans respond is up to us. Reagan taught us all people have a God given right to live in peace and not as slaves in the filthy Russian World. That’s why nearly all of Ukraine’s neighbors support them. That is morally, politically and economically the right thing to do for conservatives. Unless, of course, you want to Make Russia Great Again. If that’s the case then I understand your US disengagement position.
Reagan also taught us we can economically bear Russia. I am not some hippie, I am also not a neo con. The Ukraine war has no winners execpt the elite you end up helping with all these deaths.
the filthy world
the west - diversity
Russia is squeaky clean
Well I’ve heard plenty about how Russia was winning, but a lot more about how Ukraine was winning. Do not finding it surprising that there would be people dug into each outlook by now calling each other names.
We made Russia our enemy because our political elite and oligarch class wanted to destroy and Russia and raid like they have done in Ukraine.
We wanted this proxy war. We've done everything to thwart peace and keep it going. And, it has been disaster.
We've pushed Russia into an alliance with China. We have sanction war hurt us more than Russia. And, this war has given rise to BRICS and de-dollarization which could ultimately destroy our economy.
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