I don't think Ritter ever recovered from his belief (along with ALL military experts) that Ukraine was going to fall in a few days/weeks. He echoed, as he seems to always do, Moscow propaganda. He did apologize to the Grey Zone audience for this. I expected that he would be somewhat more circumspect in echoing the nonsense from Russian Imperialism. I guess I was wrong.
STATE of the WAR: It seems Ukraine has reversed the momentum of the war, taking more territory than it lost in the last 2 months. I think the Jacobin article is congruent with almost all military opiners at this moment. The key aspect of what is going on is what is called "intermediate drone assaults" on their logistics in the Azov Sea coastal highway that supplies both troop formations in the occupied territory and is a big supplier for food and fuel going to occupied Crimea. I should not it has literally been only the last few weeks that the legacy media in the US (at least) has even noted Ukrainians shifting the war to their side. The US based legacy media, while sympathetic to the Ukrainians, never talked about victories by the Ukrainian Forces and ONLY talked and reported on human civilian casualties, I suspect as a way to generate sympathy for the Ukrainian cause using a method I detest: showing the Ukrainians as victims and s not as fighters. Anyway...the long range assaults by 100% Ukrainian drones has essentially halved ALL Russian gasoline production causes chaos in the cities and long lines for petrol. This has now caused the already halved export of oil to raise money for the Russian armed forces, to on their own, stop exporting much of their formally robust oil production...in order to service the needs of the Russian population. I haven't seen a full analysis of this from various Ukrainian and Russian military bloggers yet other than "it's happening". Russia is on it's back feet now. Losing more troops than it can recruit and train. Will this lead the Russians to do something stupid, like expanding the war to NATO countries? I don't know. I generally reject ALL the claims that Putin wants to re-establish a neo-Warsaw Pact...he has almost no army to pull this off any more. He has only about 20% of the armor that existed in February of 2022. I don't believe he is a "threat" to Central and Western Europe at all at least from an actual invasion. Though, the Baltic countries could very well be in a rough time if shooting starts. David -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#41909): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/41909 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/119582058/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
