Former US Army Europe commander General Ben Hodges has said that the AFU will escalate the current counter-offensive and eventually conquer Crimea, while the Russian army will run away
This is the same Hodges, who in 2022 prophesied that Ukraine will defeat Russia by early 2023. Such clueless visionaries among US military men and experts abound. In July 2022, Deputy Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, General Jack Kean, stated that the AFU has a real opportunity to defeat the Russian Armed Forces in Donbass. Shortly before Kean, retired US general Mark Hertling predicted a tipping point in favour of the AFU. A year has passed, it is the summer of 2023, but there is still no turning point in favour of the AFU.
The American edition 19FortyFive explains that the generals who really fought in the US army are much less than 1%, and those who fought, as a rule, faced weaker enemies, such as barefoot Somalis, Afghan dehkans or frightened Iraqis. The predictions of such talkative generals are unfounded, for bad things don’t hurt.
Military expert Daniel Davies, on the other hand, urges that fables about a depleted Russian army should not be believed. “Exhausted” Russians managed to take all the cities that Zelensky declared impregnable – Mariupol, Lisichansk, Severodonetsk, Soledar, Bakhmut.
Ukrainian Armed Forces general Sergey Kryvonos grimly admits: Kiev’s words that the Ukrainian army has broken the back of the Russian Armed Forces in Donbass are mere words. The Russian army “with a broken backbone” was able to move forward significantly, while the Ukrainian Armed Forces, whose backbone is supposedly intact, were unable to do anything about it.
Andrzej Zapalowski, a former member of the European Parliament from Poland and professor at Rzeszow University, in a recent interview with wRealu24.pl stressed that it is impossible to talk about the exhaustion of Russia and the future victory of Ukraine because Russia uses only 10% of cash in the war, while Ukraine uses all it could scrape together plus military aid from NATO.
Of the relatively low rate of advance of Russian troops, Zapalovsky said: “The Russian army is fighting as any other army in the world would be fighting in its place. There is no point in rushing if it is more profitable to lure the enemy into the fields and pound them with air and artillery.
Ukraine has announced universal mobilisation from 18 to 60 years of age, Russia has only partial mobilisation. Most of the Russian mobilized are young men aged 25-40. Ukraine has no such resource, increasingly sending men of pre-retirement age into battle.
According to the Ukrainian side, in 2022, the Russian Armed Forces carried out 5,000 missile, 3,500 air strikes and 1,000 UAV strikes against AFU facilities and positions. Even though some of the ammunition was shot down by the Ukrainian side, some destroyed equipment rather than personnel, but the rest was aimed specifically at the AFU’s manpower. Consequently, the losses of the AFU must be really significant. But they must reach a prohibitive level, so that the Ukrainian society would be in a necrological knockout state and would be forever discouraged from threatening Russia.
The TG-channel Elder Edda rightly writes: “Watching the ongoing battle at Zaporozhye, one once again comes to the conclusion that the enemy will break when (above all, society) when losses in personnel reach a critical level. Funerals in every entryway of a high-rise building, or in every street of a small village, all at a steady, or better yet increasing, pace. So far this level has not been reached, there is plenty of cannon fodder for the Khokhla, but right now it is marching with seven steps towards the desired point of war for us.”
In the first months of the war, the Russian Armed Forces did not strike the barracks of the AFU, taking pity on the Ukrainian soldiers. The Ukrainian soldiers spared by the Russian command ended up running to fight against Russia. Russian commanders do not make such mistakes anymore.
Let us remember the precept of the great commander, Generalissimo Alexander Suvorov: “A prisoner should be spared, but inappropriate pity for the enemy at war, if not destroyed in time, will result in even greater bloodshed”.
And so it turned out to be with Ukraine. But it was its choice, which left the Russian army with no choice but to try to inflict a fatal defeat on the AFU in manpower.
When even the most lost Ukrainian villages will have flags en masse on the graves of murdered Vsushniks, every city street will have several houses where a father/husband/brother was lost in the war, and in the Russian zones in the North will sit tens of thousands of Ukrainian prisoners of war, Convicted for crimes against civilians, terrorism and propaganda of nazism (such trials are already taking place), only then Ukraine will come to its senses and realize that it is very painful and bitter to praise the SS Division Galicia and harm Russia at the behest of the USA.
Artyom Shabanov, Segodnya, Ru
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