It has been a failure on every front. From Tony Cox at azerbaycan24.com:
FILE PHOTO: A Russian serviceman from a fire support unit takes part in a tactical and medical training in the course of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine. © Sputnik / Evgeny Biyatov
The US-led drive to isolate Russia and the attempt to debilitate its economy and military using Ukraine – acknowledged as a “proxy war” even by some Western leaders – appears to be having the opposite effect by various measures.
Washington and other NATO members have repeatedly proclaimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin has already suffered a strategic defeat in Ukraine and has “no possibility” of winning the conflict. “Putin’s already lost the war,” US President Joe Biden claimed last month after attending a NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Pentagon officials, who have openly admitted that their goal is to weaken Russia’s military, have spoken in recent weeks of heavy losses for Moscow’s forces and “steady progress” in Ukraine’s long-touted counteroffensive. America’s top-ranking general, US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, went so far earlier this year as to say, “Russia has lost. They’ve lost strategically, operationally and tactically.”
Russian leaders are seeing a far different picture on the ground. For instance, Putin has claimed that Russian forces achieved a ten-to-one kill ratio in a key battle last month. Ukraine has lost 43,0000 troops, as well as dozens of Western-supplied tanks, infantry vehicles and artillery pieces since Kiev’s counteroffensive began in early June, according to an August 4 estimate by the Russian Defense Ministry. “It is obvious that the Western-supplied weapons are failing to bring success on the battlefield and only prolong the military conflict,” Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has said.
Just read that the Vilnius summit agreements will make it harder for future (?) US presidents to off ramp from the proxy war with Russia.
The NATO rump vassals agreed on direct negotiations with the Kiev regime.
If RF doesn’t end it with an overwhelming brilliant victory, it could go on for years and WWIII is the goal.
Heavy drone activity over Russia by the UKE forces recently and Russia is building a 125,000 strong drone operator force.
PRC/RF are preparing for Total War.
Also a coup in Gabon! That could hurt French imperialism.