Ukraine war mega thread

[sabang]

Clearly Sabang is drunk, posting a garbled mess.

No idiot, sabang is not drunk and hasn't even had a drink since lunch (it's 2235 here), and considering that "garbled mess" was penned by no less than Henry Kissinger, what a total fool you have made of yourself yet again. The few people who ever took you seriously on this forum are fast evaporating.

^ maybe, but at some stage we are gonna have to acknowledge the facts on the ground. Better sooner than later imho (Kissinger gives the example of a potential peace deal that was missed in 1916, at the cost of millions of lives and untold decimation). I think the term being bandied in the West is an 'imperfect peace'.

[OhOh]

News From the NATOstan-Imposed Meat Grinder

Pepe Escobar

December 17, 2022

Somewhere in her private pantheon, Pallas Athena, Goddess of Geopolitics, is immensely enjoying the show.

"No one ever lost money capitalizing on the unlimited nonsense spewed out by the collective deer caught in the headlights also known as Western mainstream media – complete with showering Person of the Year awards on a megalomaniac, cocaine-fueled lousy actor impersonating a warlord.

The non-stop trashy parade of Western military analysts is now “assessing” that the first targets of an incoming, joint Russia-Belarus attack on the 404 black hole formerly known as Ukraine will be Lviv, Lutsk, Rivne, Zhytomyr, and why not throw Kiev in the mix straight out of a second axis.

The Russian General Staff is attentively monitoring all the action and may even follow the advice of such “analysts”.

And then there’s outright panic, as the Ministry of Defense announced that the Strategic Missile Forces have loaded two Yars ICBMs into their intended silos. Cue to widespread shrieks of horror of the “Russia Readies Nuclear Missile Capable Of Striking Deep Into US” variety.

Some facts though never change. Number One is NATO as a figment of the collective West’s – extremely impaired – imagination. If push ever came to shove – as Straussian/neo-con armchair warriors hope and pray – Russia can conveniently defeat the whole of NATO as there is hardly anything “there”.

That, of course, would require a massive Russian mobilization. As it stands, Russia may look feeble in a few quarters as they activated at best 100,000 troops against possibly 1 million Ukrainian troops. It’s as if Moscow was not exactly seduced by the idea of “winning” – which may be the case, in a quite twisted way.

Even now, Moscow has not mobilized enough troops to occupy Ukraine – which, in theory, would be imperative to completely “denazify” the Kiev racket. The operative concept though is “in theory”. Moscow in fact is busy demonstrating a completely new theory – irrespective of the fact that a few exalted souls have been peddling that Putin should be replaced by the FSB’s Alexander Bortnikov.

“There will be nothing left of the enemy”

With its array of hypersonic missiles, Russia can knock out all NATO bridges, ports, airports as well as power stations, oil and natural gas storage, Rotterdam oil and natural gas installations, in a matter of a few hours. All energy production equipment across NATOstan would be destroyed. Europe would be shut off from natural resources. A dazed and confused Empire would be unable to move troops, any troops, to Europe.

And still provocations run unabated. The recent attack by Tu-141 Ukrainian drones against Engels-2 airbase was blamed by Moscow on Kiev – which predictably denied all responsibility. Yet what really mattered was Moscow’s strategic messaging to US/NATO, with Putin flirting with the notion that sooner or later the response may be up a serious notch in case US/NATO weaponry supplied to Kiev is used to strike deep into sensitive Russian Federation territory.

The current Russian doctrine even allows Moscow to respond with nuclear strikes; after all Engels-2 airbase is home to nuclear-capable bombers, prime strategic assets.

The drones were certainly launched by infiltrated agents inside Russian territory. If they had originated from outside Russia, and interpreted as nuclear missiles, that could have triggered the launch against NATOstan of hundreds of Russian nuclear missiles.

Putin himself made it – ominously – quite clear at the Eurasia Economic Council summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, a week ago:

“I assure you, after the early warning system receives a signal of a missile attack, hundreds of our missiles are in the air (…) It is impossible to stop them (…) There will be nothing left of the enemy, because it is impossible to intercept a hundred missiles. This, of course, is a deterrent – a serious deterrent.”

Not, of course, to the stupidity-corroded Straussian-neocon gang who are actually running American foreign “policy”.

It’s no wonder reliable Russian intel sources established that the missiles that hit Engels-2 were locally launched, though the Kiev regime desired it to be believed otherwise.

And that turns the whole charade into a Dadaist farce – with a dazed and confused Empire still bound to a maniac in Kiev who still believes that the Ukrainian S-300 that hit Poland came from Russia. Cue to the whole world – and not only Washington – as hostage to a “Person of the Year” maniac with the – virtual – power of provoking a worldwide nuclear war.

Red Napoleon in da house

Meanwhile, on the ground, Russia has gone Deep Operations Strategy, big time. In several spots along the extensive frontline, they attack the points that are most likely to draw out poor Ukrainian reserves hiding in the second line of defense. When reserves come out through barren, muddy lands and terrible roads to the rescue of frontline units, entire battalions are massacred.

Russians never go deep into the third line – where command and control may be located. What’s in play is attrition warfare under Deep Operations Strategy, straight out of the playbook of the legendary “Red Napoleon”, Field Marshall Mikhail Tukhachevsky.

Russia saves soldiers, personnel and equipment. The whole thing works wonders in difficult terrain where vehicles get bogged down in rainy roads. This rinse and repeat tactic, day in day out, for months on end has led to (at least) 400,000 Ukrainian casualties. Call it the epitome of Attritional Warfare.

Historians will relish that the whole scenario resembles the Battle of Agincourt – where wave after wave of French Knights (playing the role of present day Ukrainians, and Polish/NATO mercenaries) kept running uphill against English archers and knights who just stood still and let them come, hitting the second line again and again.

The difference, of course, is that Russians are employing attritional warfare tactics day after day for six months now, while Agincourt was just one battle in a single day. By the time this meat grinder is over an entire generation of Ukrainians and Poles will have gone to meet their maker.

The collective West’s myth of a Ukrainian “victory” against the Russian war of attrition does not even qualify as cosmic delusion. It’s a lousy, lethal joke. The only way out would be to sit down at the negotiating table, now, before the hammer (the next Russian offensive) comes down on the anvil (the existing frontline).

But NATO, of course, as Stultifying Stoltenberg keeps reminding the world, does not do negotiations.

Which, in a sense, may be a blessing, as NATO may end up breaking up in myriad pieces, totally humiliated on the ground despite all its elaborate warmongering plans.

Andrei Martyanov has been peerless tracking the collective West’s complete economic, moral, intellectual – and most of all military – degradation, everything drenched in lies, lousy P.R. twists and “stupefying incompetence across the board.”

All this while Russia prepares “for yet another ‘defeat’, like retaking all of Donbass and then… Who knows what then. A quick win for Russia would be a loss because NATO would still exist. No, Russia has to pace this so as it sucks in NATO into the grinder.”

Somewhere in her private pantheon, Pallas Athena, Goddess of Geopolitics, is immensely enjoying the show. Oh, wait; she’s actually reincarnated, and her name is Maria Zakharova."

News From the NATOstan-Imposed Meat Grinder — Strategic Culture

[sabang]

Well Pepe Escobar is certainly enjoying the show (Escobar first came to my attention when he proved to be entirely right about Syria, while the whole of MSM was proven wrong). So I follow him from afar- but I personally doubt the following:-

If push ever came to shove – as Straussian/neo-con armchair warriors hope and pray – Russia can conveniently defeat the whole of NATO as there is hardly anything “there”.

That's the sort of gung-ho stuff one would expect to hear from snubski, albeit the other way around.

[harrybarracuda]

Escobar first came to my attention when he proved to be entirely right about Syria

What, the man who said "Russia brokered peace in Syria" while neglecting to mention Russia actually carried out its usual war crimes against civilians and bombed the shit out them?

Is that the first time you jerked off to him?

Or is it just war crimes in general that get you excited?

[bsnub]

Retired Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling commanded the 1st Armored Division during the Iraq surge and later commanded U.S. Army Europe.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to activate 300,000 “reservists” —some of whom have previously served, some who have not— to hold the line in Ukraine has led thousands of young Russian men to flee the country. The call-up is an outrage, but not only for the reasons you might imagine. Sending new recruits, poorlytrained Russian reservists and untrained civilians into Ukraine is a recipe for slaughter. They will not be prepared for what they will encounter.

Years ago, I was given the command of the organization that oversees all basic training for the Army (what some call “boot camp”) as well as managing the advanced training that follows for every Army trooper. At the time, the United States was recruiting approximately 160,000 soldiers, warrant officers and officers each year.

Most Americans who volunteer to join the Army undergo 10 weeks of basic training, then head to different locations for more training in an assigned specialty. “Basic” is a packed period in which soldiers learn and practice such skills as rifle marksmanship, first aid, map reading, land navigation and grenade throwing. They also learn about working as part of a team, reacting to various kinds of attacks (artillery, chemical, ambush, etc.), drill and ceremony (how to march, salute and other elements of discipline), professional ethos and values, and a variety of other skills. It is intense.

The length of the follow-on training depends on the specialty selected by each soldier, but it’s measured in months, not weeks. An intelligence specialist who works as an interpreter spends almost a year learning the trade. Logistics specialists — truck drivers, fuelers, mechanics — spend less, depending on their jobs. Most recruits will spend three or four years in uniform, and a large percentage reenlist and stay in the professional force.

I later became the commander of the U.S. Army in Europe. In that role, I was able to visit Russia several times and observe how another army trained its conscripts and incorporated them into its force.

Russia’s army is mainly a conscript force. Twice a year, Russian men between the ages of 18 and 27 present themselves to their local commissariat. This annual pool is more than 1 million men, from which 120,000 to 140,000 are deemed qualified and are compelled to serve. Russian conscripts then participate in one to two months of basic training (the exact number of weeks is not defined), followed by three to six months of advanced training in a particular skill set. Graduated soldiers report to their units for a short 12- to 18-month enlistment. Fewmake the army a career.

It is easy to see why. Russian drill sergeants were unprofessional and continuously harassed and hazed recruits. Marksmanship training was geared toward familiarization with a weapon, but not qualification on it. Soldiers were allocated few rounds for practice on firing ranges. First aid training was rudimentary, map reading and land navigation was nonexistent, soldier initiative was lacking, and discipline was lax.

The barracks were crowded, bunks were close, ventilation was poor. Showers and toilets were gang latrines. Food in the mess halls had small portions, no choices and little nutritional value. I didn’t observe any training on values, soldiers’ ethics, professional behavior, or the teaching of land warfare, all key parts of U.S. basic training. Most training in those areas, I was told by a Russian colonel, is conducted after soldiers leave basic and report to their units. To which I could only conclude: Yeah, right.

Shortly thereafter, I visited a tank regiment. I was ushered to that battalion’s single T-72 tank crew simulator, participated in a drill, and found the device rudimentary and unrealistic. U.S. armor crewmen spend extensive time in tank simulators before firing dozens of live rounds at different types of moving and stationary targets at extended ranges — on multiple types of tank ranges. After experiencing the Russian simulator, I went to their single tank range and was proudly told by the Russian commander that each of his crews was able to fire one live round per year. I tried to keep my jaw from dropping.

Having watched the Russian army during the first seven months of its campaign in Ukraine, I cannot say I’m surprised by any of their setbacks. The Russians performed as their training would have suggested: poorly. The casualty counts reflect this. It is no wonder so many young Russians are fleeing the country.

Which brings us back to how Putin’s 300,000 “reservists” will fare against Ukraine’s NATO-trained army. It is likely those recruits will join units that have recently been traumatized after seven months of combat and already suffer from poor morale. It won’t help that those units have recently been reinforced with prison parolees, ragtag militias from false “peoples’ republics,” and recruited guns from private armies.

The results will be predictable. Putin might continue to send unwilling Russian men to an ill-conceived and illegal invasion for which they are not trained or prepared. But it’s not warfare. It’s just more murder — this time of his own citizens.

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[sabang]

Neither. It was the fact that he was proven to be entirely right all along, while lazy MSM was deluded, propagandized, and probably spent most of their time getting pissed with each other, outside of the statutory daily briefing of course. Pepe went out there to the zones, spoke to actual people, and found out for himself. Kudos.

[bsnub]

Neither. It was the fact that he was proven to be entirely right all along, while lazy MSM was deluded, propagandized, and probably spent most of their time getting pissed with each other, outside of the statutory daily briefing of course. Pepe went out there to the zones, spoke to actual people, and found out for himself. Kudos.

You continue to redefine what being a moron means. Didn't you claim for months that Russia would never invade? Seems your sources are a bit shit.

[sabang]

Who is the President of Syria again? Who tried, and failed, to get radical Islamists to overthrow the government? Who was telling the truth along (Pepe) and who lied to you all along (MSM). Game, set and match.

And as for your tired old canard about the fact that the Russian invasion of Ukraine could and should have been prevented, a lot of people a lot more prominent than I thought exactly the same thing. Yawwwn.

You are a spiteful little idiot, and you have lost all credibility on this Forum.

[harrybarracuda]

Neither. It was the fact that he was proven to be entirely right all along,

He's not right, he's just a pathological liar and serial seppo hater, who uses cretinous words like "pipelineistan".

That's why hoohoo's always kissing his arse and nicking his juvenile sayings.

Probably why you do too.

[harrybarracuda]

Who is the President of Syria again? Who tried, and failed, to get radical Islamists to overthrow the government? Who was telling the truth along (Pepe) and who lied to you all along (MSM). Game, set and match.

And as for your tired old canard about the fact that the Russian invasion of Ukraine could and should have been prevented, a lot of people a lot more prominent than I thought exactly the same thing. Yawwwn.

You are a spiteful little idiot, and you have lost all credibility on this Forum.

You know nothing about Syria, because you believe the fucking twaddle this idiotic seppo hater writes.

Absolutely fucking nothing.

The simple fact is that while Assad was desperately trying to keep the Sunni majority under his foot (and losing), Putin the war criminal came along and started bombing civilians.

This created the perfect environment for Sunni extremists to come in and claim they were fighting the war for them, and who's going to argue when the Russians are dropping barrel bombs and chemical weapons on you?

And yes, I know ISIS was created in response to Shi'a retribution in a liberated Iraq, you fucking imbecile.

You fucked up on Putin's invasion because you don't really know shit about anything you bleat on about on these threads, much like the rest of the wanketeers.

[bsnub]

You are a spiteful little idiot, and you have lost all credibility on this Forum.

Says you?

You fucked up on Putin's invasion because you don't really know shit about anything you bleat on about on these threads, much like the rest of the wanketeers.

Nail meet hammer!

[HermantheGerman]

You know nothing about Syria, because you believe the fucking twaddle this idiotic seppo hater writes.

Absolutely fucking nothing.

The simple fact is that while Assad was desperately trying to keep the Sunni majority under his foot (and losing), Putin the war criminal came along and started bombing civilians.

This created the perfect environment for Sunni extremists to come in and claim they were fighting the war for them, and who's going to argue when the Russians are dropping barrel bombs and chemical weapons on you?

And yes, I know ISIS was created in response to Shi'a retribution in a liberated Iraq, you fucking imbecile.

You fucked up on Putin's invasion because you don't really know shit about anything you bleat on about on these threads, much like the rest of the wanketeers.

Nice try, but you are wasting your time.

[bsnub]

Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine - 19 December 2022 Find out more about the UK government's response: http://ow.ly/V7Ms50M6HzK

[bsnub]

KREMENNA/2345 UTC 18 DEC/ UKR forces repelled a RU assault on Chervonopopivka during 16-17 DEC. The Forward Edge of the Battle Area (FEBA) extends to the E side of the P-66 HWY, south from Pischane to Zhytiivika. On 18 DEC, UKR troops engaged RU units SE of Kuzmyne.

[sabang]

the Sunni majority

Yes, indeed- the majority of the Syrian Army is and was Sunni. As is Assad's beautiful wife, Asma- an ex-investment banker for Morgan Stanley in London.

[bsnub]

Yes, indeed- the majority of the Syrian Army is and was Sunni.

This is a thread about the war in Ukraine. Take your drivel elsewhere.

[sabang]

Yeh right.

[bsnub]

A Russian official admitted Russian President Vladimir Putin's military is "playing catch up" against Ukraine during a recent appearance on Russian state TV.

Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine more than nine months earlier in February, hoping for a quick victory against his Eastern European neighbor. However, Ukraine responded with a stronger-than-anticipated defense effort, bolstered by Western military aid, that has prevented Moscow from making substantial military gains.

Andrei Gurulyov, a member of the state Duma and ex-general of the Russian military, acknowledged Moscow's struggles while speaking on Russian state TV. Video of the exchange was translated and posted to Twitter by BBC reporter Francis Scarr on Sunday.

"There are things which are undeniable. We are well aware that they've been supplying things to Ukraine," Gurulyov said, referring to the Ukraine's Western allies. "It started with helmets and body armor. Then it was firearms, ammunition, and after that howitzers."

He griped about Ukraine receiving military aid from the West—as the Kremlin has repeatedly spoken out against this assistance—that has been attributed to turning the tide of the war in favor of the Ukrainians.

"Next, HIMARS, and now Patriot systems. Next will be Abrams tanks or Leopards. It doesn't matter. It will all arrive at some point," Gurulyov said. "All of that is going to arrive."

After months of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pleading with U.S. officials to send longer-range weapons, the Biden administration appears poised to provide Ukraine with Patriot systems. These advanced surface-to-air-missiles are considered one of the most capable weapons at knocking out incoming ballistic and cruise missiles. Experts expect the system will be a significant boost for Ukraine.

Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned the missiles could lead to "an escalation of the conflict" during a press conference last week.

Gurulyov lamented that Russia's military leaders are often stuck playing "catch up" whenever Ukraine receives new weapons, rather than already having a strategy in place to combat these missile systems.

"Unfortunately, in this regard, we're playing catch up. We're on the defensive. We wait for them to bring something and then work out how to fight against it. That's the situation, isn't it? That's how it is, unfortunately," he said.

Robert English, professor of international relations at the University of Southern California, told Newsweek on Sunday that too many Russians are aware of their military's blunders for officials to "keep lying" about the reality of the conflict.

"So admitting that the Russian military has bogged down and suffered major defeats is unavoidable. And that's particularly so if the Kremlin want to prepare their people for more months of war. Paradoxically, to keep public support for more sacrifice they have to admit to the huge sacrifices already made. It may not work, but they have to try," English said in a written statement.

Gurulyov's remarks are the latest indication that Russia's invasion continues to falter.

Throughout the conflict, reports have emerged about Russia struggling to maintain motivated, well-trained forces. Ukraine said this week that more than 1 million Russian soldiers have called a surrender hotline as the death toll of Russian troops approaches 100,000. As Russia struggles to take new Ukrainian territory, its military has turned to airstrikes against civilian infrastructure ahead of winter.

Barry R. McCaffrey, a retired U.S. Army general, said during an MSNBC appearance on Friday that Putin has already strategically lost the war. "Operationally they're not able to deal essentially with a very active, aggressive Ukrainian military force," he said.

Newsweek reached out to Russia and Ukraine's defense ministries, as well as foreign policy analysts, for comment.

https://www.newsweek.com/russian-off...ensive-1767980

In this tweet, Russian propagandist Andrei Gurulyov admits Russia is basically fucked...

https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/st...24873245171712

[bsnub]

Russia Has More Artillery Than Ukraine. But Russian Gunners Have A Bad Habit Of Shelling ... Nothing.

Despite a deluge of Western support for Ukraine over the 10 months of Russia’s wider war on Ukraine, the Russian army still has more artillery and rocket-launchers than the Ukrainian army has.

But Russian gunners have a bad habit of shelling ... nothing. Or worse, shelling friendly troops.

On paper, the Russian army possesses one of the world’s best artillery fire-control systems. In practice, poorly trained and undisciplined Russian gunners following rigid, outdated doctrine are wasting Russia’s artillery advantage. Firing a lot of shells and rockets without necessarily hitting anything.

One panicky December phone call from a Russian draftee, fighting somewhere in eastern Ukraine, tells the story of Russia’s failing fire-support system.

After describing Russian battalions shipping home daily “packages” of 17 dead draftees, the unhappy soldier blames Russian gunners for Russian casualties. “Ours have fucked us up,” he says in his intercepted call. “Entered incorrect adjustment data. Fucked up everything we have, our own guys.”

Even after a crash artillery expansion program, the Ukrainian army began 2022 with just half as many big guns and launchers as the Russian army had.

To add guns and launchers, the Ukrainian army starting in 2014 opened up old warehouses packed with ex-Soviet hardware. The army formed new artillery brigades and regiments, added artillery and rocket battalions to the infantry, tank and air-assault brigades and helped the navy form artillery battalions for its marine brigades.

After eight years of expansion, the Ukrainian artillery corps had 2,900 big guns and launchers. But the Russian artillery corps at the same time had expanded to include around 6,000 artillery and rocket systems. Donations since February have added a few hundred big guns and launchers to Ukraine’s total.

“I would say that the numbers clearly favor the Russians,” U.S. Army general Mark Milley, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters in June. “In terms of artillery, they do outnumber, they out-gun and out-range.”

But the numbers don’t tell the whole story, Milley stressed. “The Russians have run into a lot of problems. They've got command-and-control issues, logistics issues. They've got morale issues, leadership issues and a wide variety of other issues.”

Failures of command result in a lot of wasted shells and rockets and all-too-frequent friendly-fire incidents. Even when artillery is hitting nothing or, worse, hitting allied positions, the gunners just keep blasting away.

There’s a “near-absence of reversionary courses of action” in the Russian fire-control system, analysts Mykhaylo Zabrodskyi, Jack Watling, Oleksandr Danylyuk and Nick Reynolds explained in a study for the Royal United Services Institute in London.

What that means is, in Russian doctrine, brigades, battalions and batteries tend to freeze up in the absence of detailed instructions from higher command. While awaiting fresh orders, lower units just keep doing what they already were doing. Even when it doesn’t make sense. Even when the current course of action is killing friendly troops.

“This approach has probably had the greatest impact in creating a gap between potential and actual capability as regards Russian fires,” Zabrodskyi, Watling, Danylyuk and Reynolds wrote.

Russian gunners simply don’t think for themselves. “All reported contacts are treated as true. All fire missions appear to be given equal priority and are prosecuted in the order in which they are received unless an order to prioritize a specific mission comes from higher authority.”

“It seems that those directing fire missions either do not have access to contextual information or are indifferent to it,” the analysts added.

There’s an alternative approach to battlefield command—one that’s central to the Western way of war and also increasingly is in favor in the Ukrainian military establishment. It’s called “mission command.”

In mission command, lower units are free to make their own decisions—as long as those decisions are consistent with the overall goals of the campaign. It’s all about autonomy and flexibility.

Ukrainian forces have been learning mission command from their allies in the United States and NATO. “Ukraine has been trained by the United States since 2014,” Milley said in April. “They have given me feedback personally, saying that training has been quite effective in terms of the concept of mission command, distributed junior-level leadership. That is not present in the Russian army. That is present right now in the Ukrainian army.”

So Ukrainian gunners shoot, correct their aim, shoot again—and entirely change up their schemes of fire when those schemes aren’t working. Russian gunners, on the other hand, tend to blast away at the wrong coordinates while awaiting new orders from division. Orders that might never come.

For the poor Russian draftee on the ground in eastern Ukraine, that means catching shells from both sides. “You think it’s fucking fun here?” the draftee says in his intercepted call. “It’s not fucking fun. It’s war.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidax...h=27178f67aed7

This is the intercepted cell phone conversation...

https://twitter.com/wartranslated/st...81171328532481

[bsnub]

Things are clearly not going well at the Kremlin. Clowns like this are Sabangs buddies.

[sabang]

American expert: In the West they talk about the victory of Kyiv, realizing that the real picture does not correspond to this



As a member of the board of directors of the Institute of American Ideas George O'Neill notes in his article for the American edition of The American Conservative, the West is well aware that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are suffering heavy losses and can lose in a conflict with Russia.



According to the expert, despite the fact that the leading Western media and the US presidential administration endlessly repeat that Ukraine is defeating Russia, the realities at the front do not confirm this optimism of the West. And Western leaders are well aware of this, O'Neill said.

The expert also called the West's policy towards Ukraine cynical and disastrous. However, according to O'Neill, the Ukrainians are paying the price for this policy, "suffering huge losses."

The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are so great that the West is no longer able to hide them, the expert notes, referring to the words of the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, who announced a hundred thousand dead soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. At the same time, the US and the EU also declare a shortage of weapons for deliveries to Kyiv. However, pro-Kyiv victorious rhetoric continues in the West, writes O'Neill Jr., pointing out that such rhetoric is more like a bizarre attempt to convince themselves that victory over Russia is about to be won in Ukraine.

He also blamed the deaths of thousands of Ukrainians on Washington, which should not have interfered in relations between Moscow and Kyiv.

George O'Neill concluded by urging Western leaders to begin negotiations to end the loss of life.

https://en.topwar.ru/207064-amerikanskij-jekspert-na-zapade-govorjat-o-pobede-kieva-ponimaja-chto-realnaja-kartina-jetomu-ne-sootvetstvuet.html

[sabang]

Washington and Kyiv are seriously concerned about the prospects for the further development of the armed conflict. This is reported by the American newspaper Politico.



According to the publication, the counter-offensive of the Ukrainian troops, which at the end of the summer of 2022 looked quite successful, has now practically stopped. Russian troops occupied defensive lines and fortified their positions. Winter also played its role: the onset of frosts slowed down the course of hostilities. At the same time, the publication, apparently, is not fully aware that there were no frosts in most areas of the NWO in the last few days, but there was impassable mud, and often remains to this day.

Now in Kyiv they are talking about a possible new offensive by the Russian army in the coming weeks. Thus, Russian troops, according to a number of Ukrainian politicians, may launch an attack on Kyiv itself, including from the territory of neighboring Belarus.

As for the United States, it is not very clear how the situation with military and financial assistance to Ukraine will develop further. President Joe Biden faces two major challenges. The first of these is the unpredictable behavior of the Republican Party, which has won a majority in the House of Representatives of the US Congress. Earlier, the Republicans said that if they do not reduce it, they will very carefully check the assistance provided to Ukraine.

The second problem is the high risk of recession in Europe. Already, inflation in European countries reaches 11%. It is possible that additional millions of Ukrainians will rush to the European Union to escape the dark and cold winter: after all, Ukrainian cities were left without heat and light after rocket attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure facilities. American observers also suggest thinking about this.

In this regard, it is becoming increasingly difficult to convince European governments of the need for further financial injections in support of the Kyiv regime. Moreover, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky refuses to start negotiations with the Russian leadership. This uncompromising position irritates the European countries more and more. And in the United States itself, more and more people oppose the overly belligerent position of the Kyiv regime.

https://en.topwar.ru/207059-amerikanskoe-izdanie-napisalo-o-rastuschem-bespokojstve-ssha-i-ukrainy-po-povodu-sledujuschej-fazy-konflikta.html

[bsnub]

American expert: In the West they talk about the victory of Kyiv, realizing that the real picture does not correspond to this

topwar.ru

The walls are closing in Sab. You are coming close to the end of your rope.

Soon the ground will freeze over...

[sabang]

Duly copied for posterity snubski.

[harrybarracuda]

Yes, indeed- the majority of the Syrian Army is and was Sunni. As is Assad's beautiful wife, Asma- an ex-investment banker for Morgan Stanley in London.

You wittering twat.

80% of the country is Sunni.
90% of the Syrian armed forces officer corps are Alawite.

The Free Syrian Army were almost all ex-Syrian Army, and were going to overthrow Assad. That's why he came begging Putin to help him stay in power.

As usual, you demonstrate your complete ignorance of any subject bar reams of cliched propaganda from the same idiots hoohoo reads.

It's why you said Putin wouldn't invade Ukraine.

You are clueless.