Taking responsibility is so old fashioned, but the Biden administration, it’s European flunkies, and the Zelensky regime’s vaunted “counteroffensive” has failed miserably. One more proof the whole bunch should be thrown out and some (all?) of them should stand trial. From Moon of Alabama at moonofalabama.org:
The ‘west’ pushed Ukraine into a hopeless counter-offensive based on false assessments and wild expectations.
Russian troops were claimed to be weak, untrained and unprepared for an Ukrainian attack. On the other side it was claimed that the freshly mobilized Ukrainian men which received ‘western’ weapons and training would have the necessary quantity and quality to overcome Russian defenses.
Ukrainian troops, as well as the public, were told to believe that bullshit.
Lord Bebo @MyLordBebo – 0:55 UTC · Jun 23, 2023
NATO training explained by an Ukrainian POW
-> Psychologists trained them to not be afraid and that Russia is exhausted and weak …
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Any rational and neutral military assessment showed a far more realistic picture. One in which Russia would always defeat the planned counter-offensive.
At the end of 2022 the Ukrainian army had been exhausted and had been already been destroyed twice. The Russians had first destroyed large parts of the original equipment of the Ukrainian army and then the Soviet era equipment that was brought to Ukraine from former Warsaw Pact nations.
More importantly they had killed or wounded many of the experienced non-commissioned staff (Sergeants etc) and lower rank officers of the Ukrainian military that command and are the core of each company. The newly mobilized Ukrainian forces did not have the knowledge or training necessary to replace them.
‘Western’ equipment is more complex than Soviet era stuff. It also requires more specialized maintenance. The Ukraine received a zoo. The many types of equipment and the many incompatible kinds of ammunition they use are a logistic nightmare.
The German AI programmer WAR simulator wants lots of cannon fodder KIA?
No skin in the game for Hal 9000.
Responsibility is a construct of the white male patriarchy.
In the Peter Principle society there is no accountability and the buck just keeps going round and round with no desk to stop on.