The Ukraine counteroffensive never had a chance, and NATO should have known that. From Scott Ritter at sputnikglobe.com:
On a normal summer’s day, the road to Rabotino would be empty, save for the odd combine tractor and the vehicles driven by farmers and their families as they tend to the fields of crops they had planted in spring.
The summer’s heat would reflect off the horizon, creating glimmering mirages, while the still air would echo with the chirping of birds and the buzzing of insects. On a normal summer’s day, the road to Rabotino would resemble paradise.
Today, the road to Rabotino can best be described as a highway to hell: the serene landscape scarred with craters made by artillery shells, bombs, and mines. Fields that once grew crops intended to feed the world now seem to produce another crop—the torn, burned-out hulks of Ukrainian tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, and other military vehicles of all shapes and sizes.
The air buzzes not with bees, but bullets, and the sky above is torn by the sound of shells passing overhead, on their way to their intended target, often consisting of a new crop of military metal waiting to be consumed by fire. The smell of fresh soil, young crops, and flowers of the field has been replaced by the fetid stench of rotting corpses, abandoned by their comrades who fled for their lives.
Events in the Netherlands and Ukraine regarding food crops are not coincidental.
Poor training, not enough manufacturing of war material, underestimating the resolve of the Russian bear, war pigs running the show in faraway places who don’t care about the human cost as the bodies are burning in the fields.
Maybe one day the neocons will have to suffer the consequences for all of their failures?