Interesting that Biden presents a map showing states benefitting from support of war in Ukraine, but doesn't present map showing taxpayers who will pay for it.
The US leadership has projected every evil notion and fantasy they have onto Putin. We now know when they bad mouth Putin they are really describing themselves; Putin has proved himself to be a true statesman and his people are right behind him. Blessed are those who have leadership which really gives a damn about their own people. I hope more people wake up to the fact the US is a terrorist state without peer - they are the wind beneath Israel’s wings as genocide is committed in Palestine. It’s out of control.
"Young Russian conscripts have been dying at an even greater rate."
This is factually incorrect, doubly so, actually. There are no conscripts fighting in Ukraine, mostly due to a law from after the Chechen Wars that forbids them from participating in active hostilities except in an official state of war and/or martial law (neither in Russia now exist). Russia's fighting force is comprised of professional (contract) soldiers, mobilized reserves and a few private military contractors (mercenaries). Also, as others have mentioned, the idea that Russia's rate of losses are higher than Ukraine's contradicts all available evidence, and common sense, if you look at force ratios.
How can so many of us(deplorables/clingers) have realized two years ago that a negotiated settlement was the only way forward? We are led by a sick, corrupt group of war mongers.
One side spent the summer assaulting heavily fortified positions without air support and with a 1:10 deficit in artillery. The other side sat in their trenches and shot at them. Occasionally, they would retreat and let the enemy storm empty trenches while the artillery zeroed in on the position.
It’s not 1942. Russia is not sending wave after wave of assault troops at the enemy in the hope they will run out of ammunition or mooks to shoot back at them. Reporting on casualty ratios from western sources is absurd on its face.
Good work. You could go into how provoking a Russian invasion was linked to a plan to force regime change with sanctions. NATO wanted to turn the clock back to the 90s, asset-stripping the Russian economy with the help of comprador Russians.
Thank you, Doctor, for an informative and well written expose on the situation. God damn it to hell! Must everything this country does, be wrapped in lies and greed, hostile to all life?
Keep in mind, these assholes are spending your tax money and mine so that the Zionists can slaughter Palestinians and take their land, and our weapons makers can make record profits.
Putin was backed in to a corner by the western war monger nations. He did what he had to do to protect his country. He had no other option. It doesn’t matter if he is liked or hated by his actions. He is a true hero for Russia. The idiot fools who run the US are letting the infrastructure and people be destroyed by drugs and poverty within their borders. Putin protects his people and his country. I like Putin because he’s a great leader and patriot. The western leaders are unintelligent and corrupt creeps!
I can't believe you quote a source as unreliable as official US state propaganda like the discredited NYT—the disinformationists who sold wars in the Middle East based on fictional WMD—on Ukraine casualties. Do you really think people should believe that although Ukraine's population is 36 million while Ukrainian sources tell us 63% of Ukrainians say they know at least one close relative or friend who have died in the war, with the average number being three, there are somehow only 70,000 Ukrainians killed in action?
Of course, you also repeat US state propaganda and fiction that more Russians are being killed, despite this obviously not being true to anyone who follows reports of casualties on both sides from multiple sources and the word of those in the AFU on the front, or anyone who reads accurate, critical reporting. I assume the purpose of this article is not to help disseminate the official propaganda, so this mistake stands out quite a bit.
Even pro-Ukrainian source MediaZona estimates only 38k Russian military deaths over the whole war, a bit more than half of the made up NYT number of Ukrainian casualties. Right now, they are the lowest they have ever been.
Quoting fictions that obscure the massive casualties Ukraine is facing also obscures how the US is with the support of its population gleefully committing genocide against Ukraine, using its entire population as cannon fodder against Russia since all nationalities that aren't American are disposable to them.
A good article marred by your tepid acceptance of Russian casualties and your utter under estimation of Ukrainian deaths – I mean the BBC publish a solid investigation of Russian casualty figures and came up with a figure nothing near your bloated numbers – if you can see through the nonsense from Washington about the war how come you can’t see through this casualty nonsense?-- the ukies have lost between 400,000 and 500.000 men while the Russians have lost somewhere in the region of 30-40 thousand . Why the discrepancy ? Main reason is that this has been an artillery war and the Russians shoot 10 shells for everyone the ukies manage back. The Russians have been fighting a war of attrition since the beginning of this conflict, their aim is not to seize land but to destroy the enemy's army. They’ve already destroyed 3 Ukrainian armies and if the casualities are as you say, why are the Ukrainians recruiting men aged 65?
second problem with your analysis is the claim that the Russians desperately wanted peace. At the start of the war the Ukrainian army which had been trained, financed, equipped and commandered by NATO military planners was the third biggest in NATO over 200,000. Its a text book rule of war that attackers need a 3:1 ration over defenders before launching offfensive ops. The Russians invaded with 180,000 men – this was an expeditionary force aimed at forcing Ukraine immediately to peace talks. The surrounding of Kiev in the early days of the war was exactly to force Zalensky to talk. When it looked as if the talks were going to succeed the russians withdrew from Kiev.
One of the problems with the West currently is that their leaders and lets be frank, lots of their population, are still living in some 1990’s fantasy land. Your article while pretending to be realistic and being so in some regards, still avoids a total examination of the enormous farcical tragedy of this war by refusing to discuss many of these issues properly.
I don’t see how anyone looked at this “counteroffensive” and honestly considered it a good plan. You don’t assault heavily fortified positions if you can avoid it. You don’t launch an assault without air support and with a massive deficit in artillery tubes. You don’t launch your assault after spending weeks letting the enemy know it is coming, and where. And you don’t attempt a war of attrition against an enemy with three times the population of your own country.
Are NATO military planners just complete blithering idiots? All signs point to Yes.
This is nothing more than a textbook example of sedition. Shame on you. Vladimir Putin fellation tool is certainly not going to be a good bullet point on your résumé
This is such a BS remaking of history! Again, liberal's false supposition that 'If only we are kind, generous and listen to the countries the world would be a peaceful place.' The fact that there are just bad people on the planet looking to exploit ANY situation for their own gain is never considered a possibility and self-loathing apologists like you make their atrocities even easier. The only thing we did to harm Ukraine was not give them better weapons faster!
Interesting that Biden presents a map showing states benefitting from support of war in Ukraine, but doesn't present map showing taxpayers who will pay for it.
The US leadership has projected every evil notion and fantasy they have onto Putin. We now know when they bad mouth Putin they are really describing themselves; Putin has proved himself to be a true statesman and his people are right behind him. Blessed are those who have leadership which really gives a damn about their own people. I hope more people wake up to the fact the US is a terrorist state without peer - they are the wind beneath Israel’s wings as genocide is committed in Palestine. It’s out of control.
"Young Russian conscripts have been dying at an even greater rate."
This is factually incorrect, doubly so, actually. There are no conscripts fighting in Ukraine, mostly due to a law from after the Chechen Wars that forbids them from participating in active hostilities except in an official state of war and/or martial law (neither in Russia now exist). Russia's fighting force is comprised of professional (contract) soldiers, mobilized reserves and a few private military contractors (mercenaries). Also, as others have mentioned, the idea that Russia's rate of losses are higher than Ukraine's contradicts all available evidence, and common sense, if you look at force ratios.
How can so many of us(deplorables/clingers) have realized two years ago that a negotiated settlement was the only way forward? We are led by a sick, corrupt group of war mongers.
One side spent the summer assaulting heavily fortified positions without air support and with a 1:10 deficit in artillery. The other side sat in their trenches and shot at them. Occasionally, they would retreat and let the enemy storm empty trenches while the artillery zeroed in on the position.
It’s not 1942. Russia is not sending wave after wave of assault troops at the enemy in the hope they will run out of ammunition or mooks to shoot back at them. Reporting on casualty ratios from western sources is absurd on its face.
Basically a decent analysis, but Ukrainians are getting killed at a much higher rate than Russians.
There is a reason that Ukraine is press-ganging any warm live bodies it can muster, while Russia only had to partially mobilize reserves.
Good work. You could go into how provoking a Russian invasion was linked to a plan to force regime change with sanctions. NATO wanted to turn the clock back to the 90s, asset-stripping the Russian economy with the help of comprador Russians.
Thank you, Doctor, for an informative and well written expose on the situation. God damn it to hell! Must everything this country does, be wrapped in lies and greed, hostile to all life?
Keep in mind, these assholes are spending your tax money and mine so that the Zionists can slaughter Palestinians and take their land, and our weapons makers can make record profits.
Putin was backed in to a corner by the western war monger nations. He did what he had to do to protect his country. He had no other option. It doesn’t matter if he is liked or hated by his actions. He is a true hero for Russia. The idiot fools who run the US are letting the infrastructure and people be destroyed by drugs and poverty within their borders. Putin protects his people and his country. I like Putin because he’s a great leader and patriot. The western leaders are unintelligent and corrupt creeps!
I can't believe you quote a source as unreliable as official US state propaganda like the discredited NYT—the disinformationists who sold wars in the Middle East based on fictional WMD—on Ukraine casualties. Do you really think people should believe that although Ukraine's population is 36 million while Ukrainian sources tell us 63% of Ukrainians say they know at least one close relative or friend who have died in the war, with the average number being three, there are somehow only 70,000 Ukrainians killed in action?
https://archive.ph/Jj9r8
Of course, you also repeat US state propaganda and fiction that more Russians are being killed, despite this obviously not being true to anyone who follows reports of casualties on both sides from multiple sources and the word of those in the AFU on the front, or anyone who reads accurate, critical reporting. I assume the purpose of this article is not to help disseminate the official propaganda, so this mistake stands out quite a bit.
Even pro-Ukrainian source MediaZona estimates only 38k Russian military deaths over the whole war, a bit more than half of the made up NYT number of Ukrainian casualties. Right now, they are the lowest they have ever been.
https://en.zona.media/article/2022/05/20/casualties_eng
Quoting fictions that obscure the massive casualties Ukraine is facing also obscures how the US is with the support of its population gleefully committing genocide against Ukraine, using its entire population as cannon fodder against Russia since all nationalities that aren't American are disposable to them.
Don't worry. It will be declared to be Europeans' fault, for not paying enough.
They already started to set up the blame-shifting operation in September: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zelensky-issues-veiled-threat-destabilize-europe-if-weapons-flow-curtailed
A good article marred by your tepid acceptance of Russian casualties and your utter under estimation of Ukrainian deaths – I mean the BBC publish a solid investigation of Russian casualty figures and came up with a figure nothing near your bloated numbers – if you can see through the nonsense from Washington about the war how come you can’t see through this casualty nonsense?-- the ukies have lost between 400,000 and 500.000 men while the Russians have lost somewhere in the region of 30-40 thousand . Why the discrepancy ? Main reason is that this has been an artillery war and the Russians shoot 10 shells for everyone the ukies manage back. The Russians have been fighting a war of attrition since the beginning of this conflict, their aim is not to seize land but to destroy the enemy's army. They’ve already destroyed 3 Ukrainian armies and if the casualities are as you say, why are the Ukrainians recruiting men aged 65?
second problem with your analysis is the claim that the Russians desperately wanted peace. At the start of the war the Ukrainian army which had been trained, financed, equipped and commandered by NATO military planners was the third biggest in NATO over 200,000. Its a text book rule of war that attackers need a 3:1 ration over defenders before launching offfensive ops. The Russians invaded with 180,000 men – this was an expeditionary force aimed at forcing Ukraine immediately to peace talks. The surrounding of Kiev in the early days of the war was exactly to force Zalensky to talk. When it looked as if the talks were going to succeed the russians withdrew from Kiev.
One of the problems with the West currently is that their leaders and lets be frank, lots of their population, are still living in some 1990’s fantasy land. Your article while pretending to be realistic and being so in some regards, still avoids a total examination of the enormous farcical tragedy of this war by refusing to discuss many of these issues properly.
I don’t see how anyone looked at this “counteroffensive” and honestly considered it a good plan. You don’t assault heavily fortified positions if you can avoid it. You don’t launch an assault without air support and with a massive deficit in artillery tubes. You don’t launch your assault after spending weeks letting the enemy know it is coming, and where. And you don’t attempt a war of attrition against an enemy with three times the population of your own country.
Are NATO military planners just complete blithering idiots? All signs point to Yes.
This is nothing more than a textbook example of sedition. Shame on you. Vladimir Putin fellation tool is certainly not going to be a good bullet point on your résumé
This is such a BS remaking of history! Again, liberal's false supposition that 'If only we are kind, generous and listen to the countries the world would be a peaceful place.' The fact that there are just bad people on the planet looking to exploit ANY situation for their own gain is never considered a possibility and self-loathing apologists like you make their atrocities even easier. The only thing we did to harm Ukraine was not give them better weapons faster!