U.S. assertions that Ukraine has been a military success reveal the state of delusion within the military and government. From Simplicus at simplicius76.substack.com:
An illustrative set of occurrences give us insight into Western Atlanticist thinking when it comes to Ukraine.
First, Lloyd Austin called the Ukraine conflict “one of the greatest military success stories of our time”, a remarkable—nay, astounding—proclamation; here it is augmented with the proper accompanying visuals:
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This first statement gives one pause, and is cause for great wonder: Are US officials merely putting on, instructed by upper ‘guidance’ to characterize the war in such laudatory terms? Or—and this is the more frightening possibility—do they actually believe their flights of hyperbole?
Austin’s statement is of course just part and parcel to a litany of similar decrees from top establishment figures, the John Kirbys and Blinkens, not to mention Biden himself. We’ve said long ago that as Ukraine nears defeat, and as the US scrapes the barrel for face-saving options, it will have no choice but to redraw the war as a ‘victory’ against a barbarous Putin intent on ‘subjugating all of Europe’. But the conviction with which Austin presents his latest banality leaves us to assume he may be smelling his own flatulence vis-a-vis the great ‘Ukrainian struggle’.
And DEI is great for fire prevention by control.
Oh wait they really believe the Moscow by spring Beijing by summer?
This has to be the stupidest time in human history.
No map unfurled to China for the heads up he’ll give his comrades?