The decimated Ukrainian army can’t put together a counteroffensive and everyone knows it. From Andrew Korybko at korybko.substack.com:
The survival of Zelensky’s regime is on the line for the first time since Russia’s “goodwill” gesture of withdrawing its forces from Kiev during spring 2022’s peace talks. If the front lines don’t hold and more aid isn’t forthcoming, then he might be out of power by year’s end.
Zelensky told German media in an interview earlier this week that Ukraine is planning another counteroffensive against Russia, which is why it requires production licenses from its partners in order to build up its domestic military-industrial capacity ahead of that event. He also urged the US to break its Congressional deadlock on Ukraine aid in order to help his country prepare for this next campaign. No counteroffensive is actually planned, however, since Ukraine completely lacks the manpower and arms.
It can’t realistically narrow the yawning gap between itself and Russia, which was only widened since the dramatic failure of last summer’s counteroffensive. Russia already won the “race of logistics”/“war of attrition” with NATO by far, which has dawned on many in the West over the past nine months, hence the renewed interest among some from that bloc for freezing the conflict. Nevertheless, policymakers still want to perpetuate the NATO-Russian proxy war, which his why peace talks have yet to resume.
That approach is increasingly unpopular with the masses, who’ve grown fatigued and frustrated with this conflict, especially after last summer’s failed counteroffensive exposed the fallacy of their hopes to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia. This is particularly the case with the Ukrainians themselves, many of whom know someone who was killed or maimed in one of the meatgrinders. Left unaddressed, these public opinion trends could greatly complicate policymakers’ plans for perpetuating the conflict.
They could always hit up elementary schools and nurseries but Moloch is never sastified. (s/)
It is really about his lavish lifestyle and habits being preserved?
These things happen when candidates are compromised and someone else rules the Dominion.
One page showed a poor sap with downs syndrome in a trench and pregnant women for the meat grinder are out there and the daily losses sound like something out of Operation Bagration from 1944 on the German side.
Saw one last year of a man with club foot and his mother begging the press gang to go somewhere else and that page must have been ordered to cut back on the truth as the videos aren’t coming so often now.
A particularly gruesome one showed actual charcoal looking humans on top of an APC that took a direct hit.
Better to walk behind the armored vehicle but that is a Euro thing to ride on top…and lose men and material in one fell swoop.