What did dementia Joe start here? The Russians have effectively defeated the collective resources of all of NATO with huge reserves of troops and equipment left over. To boot, Russia has saved the best it has in case Euro troops are thrown into the mix. NATO is out of ammo, money and resolve; the once mighty protective powerhouse beaten back by a country with an economy the size of Illinois. Now war in the middle east is boiling over and Iran is on the war menu again. China and North Korea are chomping at the bit to go to war and we are now being shown for what we are ; a weak and faltering empire. Russia will never forget what was done by Europe and NATO and we will be at perpetual war with them and their allies for our foreseeable lifetime. The same goes for the collective Muslims of the middle east and the US. (Yes, the US) The enemy that is in the white house is bringing the effective end of the US as a world power and a free republic…….. Had enough yet?
In eastern Ukraine, where another gruelling winter is descending — along with it a likely freeze in major frontline movements — one Ukrainian soldier had a grim assessment of the conflict.
The 35-year-old fighting near the war-battered town of Bakhmut went further than comments from Ukraine’s most senior military official, who conceded this week that the war with Russia had reached a stalemate.
“I’ve been saying that for some time now already. Step by step we’re losing the war,” the serviceman, who uses the call sign “Mudryi” (Wise), told AFP.
“The longer this static war continues, the worse it is for us,” he said in a phone interview.
The frontline between the Ukrainian army and Russian forces occupying the east and south of the country has barely moved since last November, despite repeated Russian strikes and a Ukrainian counteroffensive.
Ukraine’s General Valery Zaluzhny surprised observers of the invasion this week with an unusually candid assessment that the warring parties had reached a deadlock along the sprawling front.
“Just like in the First World War, we have reached the level of technology that puts us into a stalemate,” he told the British magazine, The Economist.
“There will most likely be no deep and beautiful breakthrough.”
– ‘New approaches needed’ –
The comments poured cold water on the highly-touted counteroffensive that Ukraine launched this summer after stockpiling Western weapons and training new recruits.
But the push gained little ground and AFP journalists found last month that Ukraine was still battling Russian forces in one key village it had claimed to recapture weeks earlier.
In response to Zaluzhny’s comments, a senior Ukrainian official told AFP the country was facing a turning point, and would need to decide on a strategy on how to win the conflict with Russia.
Presidential aide Mykhailo Podolyak meanwhile conceded in turn that this period of fighting had run into “difficulties”.
And Oleksiy Danilov, the head of Ukraine’s security council, acknowledged that, “new approaches are needed.”
Ukrainian forces have urged Western allies to provide F-16 fighters jets and long range missiles as infantry crash into deep Russian defensive lines they have struggled to penetrate.
“We have problems with too many issues. First, the quality of training for our soldiers. Second, we don’t have enough weapons or artillery,” a 33-year-old Ukrainian serviceman near Bakhmut told AFP.
“We’re starved for artillery and it’s getting worse,” said the soldier, who goes by “Dan”.
https://news.yahoo.com/were-losing-ukrainians-reel-war-090754197.html
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