A comprehensive analysis of Ukraine’s Kursk offensive and the political ramifications in Russia from John Helmer at johnhelmer.net:
Remember the old adage — sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never harm me.
In the war by the US and its Anglo-European allies to destroy Russia since 1945, the propaganda war has been lost by the Russians many times over. That war is still being lost.
But for the first time since 1945, the battlefield war is being won by the Russian General Staff.
The uncertainty which remains is whether President Vladimir Putin will continue to restrict the General Staff’s war plans in order that Putin can go to negotiations with the Americans on terms which will forego the demilitarization and denazification of the Ukrainian territory between Kiev and the Polish border, and concede to the Kiev regime unhindered control of the cities to the east — Kharkov, Odessa, Dniepropetrovsk.
Call those terms Istanbul-II. As with the draft terms initialled in Istanbul at the end of March 2022, Istanbul-II amounts to an exchange of dominant Russian military power for US and Ukrainian signatures on paper with false intention and temporary duration.
The US administration says it believes Putin will concede. It also believes that by staging its war of pinpricks — that’s the drone, artillery and missile barrages fired by the Ukrainian military, directed by the US and UK – in the Black Sea and Russia’s western border regions, Putin’s red lines and threats of retaliation are exposed as empty bluff. The same interpretation of Putin, and confidence that he will accept US terms, are the foundation of the Ukraine “peace plan” of Donald Trump’s advisors. The Trump plan’s offer of “some limited sanctions relief” reflects the conviction in Washington that Putin’s oligarch constituency can be bribed to push Putin into the same “frozen war” concessions as Roman Abramovich got Putin to accept at Istanbul-I – until the General Staff stopped them both.
Putin’s restrictions on the General Staff’s proposals for neutralizing the US and British air surveillance and electronic warfare operations; and his orders to stand by while the Ukrainians have assembled several thousand forces, first to cross into Kursk, and then into Bryansk and Belgorod, are now as visible in Moscow as they have been in Washington.
They got the UKE troop count close but didn’t know about the NATO/MERCS?
I like the RF social media attitude as WAR isn’t chutes and ladders.
You kill more of theirs than they kill of yours until it stops.
No one said it was a beautiful world.
Putin is a lawyer at heart and Tom Hagen has a time and a place but not during WAR.
Saw some attention grabber that Ziolensky is offering up something about an end to it all but didn’t click on it.
Incompetent generals should be fired before the rot spreads, no need to go full Adolf micromanaging down to the tactical level though.
This just in from Dismember:
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