Posted on 08/11/2024 8:36:50 PM PDT by Kazan
The desperation of Ukrainian and NATO authorities is full blown and on display in the Kursk region and the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant. If you’re reading the legacy media, they cheering and celebrating the “smashing” Ukrainian victory and the utter embarrassment of Vladimir Putin. Only one teeny, tiny problem — it is bullshit.
Yes, this portion of Russia’s border was lightly defended, but when the attack came Russia countered immediately and has killed more than 50% of the invaders. Along with a body count in excess of 1300 Ukrainian and foreign mercenaries, Russia destroyed most of the tanks and armored personnel carriers. And, despite claims that Ukraine captured and controlled the village of Sudzha, the Russians are in control and mopping up desperate Ukrainians trying to avoid capture or death.
The objective of the Ukrainian attack was the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant, which is some 30 kilometers north of Sudzha. In light of today’s Ukrainian drone attack on one of the cooling towers at the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), it is clear the attack in Kursk was part of a broader Ukrainian plan to try to create some negotiating leverage with Russia. That has failed and, in the process of Russia’s counterattack, some of the best remaining Ukrainian brigades are being destroyed.
I encourage you to watch Andrei Martyanov’s latest commentary on this Ukrainian debacle. The Russian military is handling business. I would note that some pundits are suggesting this is a miniature version of Hitler’s last gasp gamble at the Battle of the Bulge. My friend, Steve Bryen, tries to provide the Western cheerleaders some bit of reality:
The current battle scene in Kursk does not resemble the Bulge. The Nazi aim was to break the US and British armies, to split them, and drive to the sea. The Ukrainian aim is to hold Russian territory for as long as possible. In both cases the aim was negotiations, but the Nazis hoped to defeat the Allies while the Ukrainians have no such hope.
We do not yet know if Ukraine will be able to sustain the Kursk attack. If they throw in more forces they will not have the advantage they enjoyed in the first phase of the battle. So the Ukrainian gamble is just that and carries strategic and political risk. In that sense, the Battle of the Bulge and Kursk share a common theme.
In my opinion, the only thing these two military events share in common is that they are both examples of the military leadership coming to the realization that the war is lost without some miracle success. Unlike the Americans, who initially struggled to regain control of the battle space, Russia moved in quickly and began killing Ukrainians in droves. This also will allow Russia to move more forces to the region under the guise of quelling the Kursk incursion in order to assemble a battle force that can drive on Kiev.
Ukraine’s Zelensky is moving quickly to try to divert attention from the attack on ZNPP by claiming the Russians did it. Nice try Volodomir. You may want to cutback on the amount of nose candy you are shoving up into that empty head of yours. Zelensky and the NATO planners, once again, have grossly miscalculated and bet a lot of Ukrainian lives on a half-baked plan. This is not going to sap Russian resolve; it is going to turn up the heat into a white-hot infernal. More Ukrainians are going to die because of this insane operation.
Truth is the first casualty in warfare.
I’m not sure whose Pravda to believe.
What utter BS! You must becoming really delusional. There isn’t a scintilla of evidence to support these outlandish claims. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ukraine isn’t doing anything and hasn’t been doing anything - as we told weeks ago, months ago, even years ago - Ukraine had “completely collapsed” with “nothing left” from these very reliable sources like this:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4135011/posts
You yourself posted this. March 2023. Along with numerous other similar posts. You think we have forgotten? If there has been “nothing left” for nearly 2 years now, how is anything happening with this conflict at all at present, favorable or unfavorable to either side?
More in the first week of the Kursk Liberation, than Russia's Kharkiv Offensive could take all Summer - despite Russia sacrificing thousands.
Note the red line in the map below, depicting the fortification line that Russia constructed. It was hardly a speed bump.
See the link above.
Zelensky has no concern - he's still arresting Ukrainian men to throw them on the front lines. He's diabolical as I see it.
The side losing is the side losing territory. Duh!
I've been saying this for almost two years -- that all the land Russia has liberated in Ukraine will remain with Russia after this war is over.
If you disagree with that, let's make a wager on it-- $100 to a future Freep-a-thon.
200+ days... And now the Ukrainians are invading Russia? What an embarrassment.
I used the phrase "Ardennes Offensive ", but potatoes POTATUS.
And here you are believing, without hesitancy, the Pro-Ukraine propaganda.
Get your own house in order before you point fingers at others!
The Ukrainians were nowhere near that place when the fire started.
This is Russian Propaganda at its best.
I’m just waiting to see who wins when the dust settles. If I were betting money, I wouldn’t bet on the guy who dances in drag.
It pretty much depends on where you get information from. Pro Russian sites will say Russians winning, pro Ukraine sites will say Ukraine’s winning. I don’t care who wins or loses. I just don’t want to pay for it.
LMAO Kyiv in three days once again! At least you’re consistent.
What was the point of the attack?
Ukraine does not have the soldiers or supply chain to accomplish attacking Russia.
I noticed that this so-called ‘war’ is hardly in the news anymore. Nobody outside of the area cares, it was as useless as WW1 and will have the effect of so many lives lost because of Putin’s ego as the invasion of Grenada on the world.
What a total waste of time, lives, and effort by the Russians. For absolutely no resource or political or defensive reason at all.
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