It has occurred to me that for all my baiting of the likes of Pepe Escobar, perhaps I am picking on some schizo fringe of the russia shill sphere, so I decided to now look over the
latest masterpiece from the endlessly hyped fount of all truth seymour hersh.
The Biden administration had a glorious few days last weekend. The ongoing disaster in Ukraine slipped from the headlines to be replaced by the “revolt,” as a New York Times headline put it, of Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of the mercenary Wagner Group.
Ya know at this point you woulda thought the russia shill contingent would have got the message from putin's public statement that this shit was a revolt
The focus slipped from Ukraine’s failing counter-offensive to Prigozhin’s threat to Putin’s control. As one headline in the
Times put it, “
Revolt Raises Searing Question: Could Putin Lose Power?”
Washington Post columnist David Ignatius posed this assessment: “
Putin looked into the abyss Saturday—and blinked.”
Once again the repetition of the old "
russia making fuck all progress in a year and steadily getting pushed pack the last couple of weeks is a glorious epoch making victory, but Ukraine steadily advancing in a few weeks is a pathetic failure" narrative along with the new "
russia failing to collapse into civil war last week is a mighty victory for russia" party line
Secretary of State Antony Blinken—the administration’s go-to wartime flack, who
weeks ago spoke proudly of his commitment not to seek a ceasefire in Ukraine—appeared on CBS’s
Face the Nation with his own version of reality: “Sixteen months ago, Russian forces were . . . thinking they would erase Ukraine from the map as an independent country,” Blinken said. “Now, over the weekend they’ve had to defend Moscow, Russia’s capital, against mercenaries of Putin’s own making. . . . It was a direct challenge to Putin’s authority. . . . It shows real cracks.”
And here we can see the endemic seething over meany old Burgerland not capitulating on Ukraine's behalf and instead making the fairly self explanatory decision to support an ally at the expense of an enemy.
Blinken, unchallenged by his interviewer, Margaret Brennan, as he knew he would not be—why else would he appear on the show?—went on to suggest that the defection of the crazed Wagner leader would be a boon for Ukraine’s forces, whose slaughter by Russian troops was ongoing as he spoke.
Apparently this mass slaughter of weak and homofied Ukroid soldiers has been going on for over a year now to the tune of gorillions as evidenced by wishful thinking and grainy recycled clips that have largely been floating around for a year or so now.
“To the extent that it presents a real distraction for Putin, and for Russian authorities, that they have to look at—sort of mind their rear as they’re trying to deal with the counter offensive in Ukraine, I think that creates even greater openings for the Ukrainians to do well on the ground.” At this point was Blinken speaking for Joe Biden? Are we to understand that this is what the man in charge believes?
Oh the horror. The US president might actually want the US's most insufferable geopolitical annoyance to lose.
We now know that the chronically unstable Prigozhin’s revolt fizzled out within a day, as he fled to Belarus, with a no-prosecution guarantee, and his mercenary army was mingled into the Russian army. There was no march on Moscow, nor was there a significant threat to Putin’s rule. Pity the Washington columnists and national security correspondents who seem to rely heavily on official backgrounders with White House and State Department officials.
Yet again, russia only having a "little" armed mutiny which went unopposed by the public is treated as a strategic russian victory
Given the published results of such briefings, those officials seem unable to look at the reality of the past few weeks, or the total disaster that has befallen the Ukraine military’s counter-offensive.
And yet again, Ukraine not blitzkrieging to Moscow within a week of a counteroffensive beginning is proof its super-duper lost the war for realsies this time
So, below is a look at what is really going that was provided to me by a knowledgeable source in the American intelligence community:
Wonder if its the same one that told you that bush was going to invade Iran a few dozen times during the 00s.
“I thought I might clear some of the smoke. First and most importantly, Putin is now in a much stronger position.
Letting armed mutiny break out beneath you is a traditional sign of strength and masculinity
We realized as early as January of 2023 that a showdown between the generals, backed by Putin, and Prigo, backed by ultra-nationalist extremists, was inevitable. The age-old conflict between the ‘special’ war fighters and a large, slow, clumsy, unimaginative regular army.
Pretty fucking sure we didnt see this "age-old" conflict break out in uh.....like literally any fucking war the US and friends have waged in the last century
The army always wins because they own the peripheral assets that make victory, either offensive or defensive, possible. Most importantly, they control logistics. special forces see themselves as the premier offensive asset. When the overall strategy is offensive, big army tolerates their hubris and public chest thumping because SF are willing to take high risk and pay a high price. Successful offense requires a large expenditure of men and equipment. Successful defense, on the other hand, requires husbanding these assets.
Wait why is russia on the defencive now? I thought it was #winning and all the Ukrainians were dead (again)
“Wagner members were the spearhead of the original Russian Ukraine offensive. They were the ‘little green men’. When the offensive grew into an all-out attack by the regular army, Wagner continued to assist but reluctantly had to take a back seat in the period of instability and readjustment that followed. Prigo, no shy violet, took the initiative to grow his forces and stabilize his sector.
Out of interest what successes did the regular russian army win during its autumn/winter/spring offensive? because literally the only victory russia seems to have claimed in all this time was Bakhmut which not only is smaller than Casper Wyoming, it also took so fucking long to take it became a fucking meme three times over, and that was by all accounts due to meat spam by Wagner.
“The regular army welcomed the help. Prigo and Wagner, as is the wont of special forces, took the limelight and took the credit for stopping the hated Ukrainians.
Stopping them? Stopping them from what!? They LOST remember....
The press gobbled it up. Meanwhile, the big army and Putin slowly changed their strategy from offensive conquest of greater Ukraine to defense of what they already had.
Again...why? russia has clearly been inflicting apocalyptic casualties on Ukraine, has suffered no real setback during the war or any casualties worth noting, have the technological edge due to superior and rugged russian equipment, the sanctions are only strengthening them....so why the change in strategy?
Prigo refused to accept the change and continued on the offensive against Bakhmut. Therein lies the rub. Rather than create a public crisis and court-martial the asshole [Prigozhin], Moscow simply withheld the resources and let Prigo use up his manpower and firepower reserves, dooming him to a stand-down. He is, after all, no matter how cunning financially, an ex-hot dog cart owner with no political or military accomplishments.
Oh oh fucking course, dont wanna create a public crisis by firing the guy.....let him stage a fucking mutiny instead.
“What we never heard is three months ago Wagner was cycled out of the Bakhmut front and sent to an abandoned barracks north of Rostov-on-Don [in southern Russia] for demobilization. The heavy equipment was mostly redistributed, and the force was reduced to about 8,000, 2,000 of which left for Rostov escorted by local police.
Uh-huh, so the force that effectively had zero serious resistance or opposition when it attempted a coup was infact even weaker than previously assumed?
“Putin fully backed the army who let Prigo make a fool of himself and now disappear into ignominy. All without raising a sweat militarily or causing Putin to face a political standoff with the fundamentalists, who were ardent Prigo admirers. Pretty shrewd.”
"I stabbed myself in the gut and removed a foot of my own intestines in order to avoid constipation that night, pretty shrewd huh?"
There is an enormous gap between the way the professionals in the American intelligence community assess the situation and what the White House and the supine Washington press project to the public by uncritically reproducing the statements of Blinken and his hawkish cohorts.
Apparently "professionals in the American intelligence community" think that having a mutiny break out is a sign of strength and stability so I would be a little sceptical of their input.
The current battlefield statistics that were shared with me suggest that the Biden administration’s overall foreign policy may be at risk in Ukraine. They also raise questions about the involvement of the NATO alliance, which has been providing the Ukrainian forces with training and weapons for the current lagging counter-offensive. I learned that in the first two weeks of the operation, the Ukraine military seized only 44 square miles of territory previously held by the Russian army, much of it open land. In contrast, Russia is now in control of 40,000 square miles of Ukrainian territory. I have been told that in the past ten days Ukrainian forces have not fought their way through the Russian defenses in any significant way. They have recovered only two more square miles of Russian-seized territory. At that pace, one informed official said, waggishly, it would take Zelensky’s military 117 years to rid the country. of Russian occupation.
BREAKING NEWS: War not won instantly against an enemy with greater numbers in dug in positions - Local Boomer apoplectic
Also given how totally russia has been winning, why the heck is Ukraine advancing at all?!
The Washington press in recent days seems to be slowly coming to grips with the enormity of the disaster, but there is no public evidence that President Biden and his senior aides in the White House and State Department aides understand the situation.
A disaster so enormous it requires the same clip of a knocked out Leopard and some Bradleys to be played on repeat for weeks to prove how totally Ukraine is losing
Putin now has within his grasp total control, or close to it, of the four Ukrainian oblasts—Donetsk, Kherson, Lubansk, Zaporizhzhia—that he publicly annexed on September 30, 2022, seven months after he began the war.
Well.....Luhansk is indeed largely occupied right now by russia and the rest have been around 30-50% defended/liberated by Ukraine but who cares about the little details when PUTIN STRONK.
The next step, assuming there is no miracle on the battlefield, will be up to Putin. He could simply stop where he is, and see if the military reality will be accepted by the White House and whether a ceasefire will be sought, with formal end-of-war talks initiated.
Ya know the whole "
feeble and cucked Ukrainoids lack the will to fight back against the mighty russian uber-bear" narrative would probably work better if....well....the past two years were not a thing. Also I must ask again. Why the heck would the US not be invested in making sure russia gets screwed over after the last century of russia screwing the US over?
There will be a presidential election next April in Ukraine, and the Russian leader may stay put and wait for that—if it takes place. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has said there will be no elections while the country is under martial law.
BREAKING NEWS: Nation invaded and partially occupied declares martial law - Local Boomer shidding and fardding in outrage
Biden’s political problems, in terms of next year’s presidential election, are acute—and obvious. On June 20 the Washington Post published an article based on a Gallup poll under the headline “Biden Shouldn’t Be as Unpopular as Trump—but He Is.” The article accompanying the poll by Perry Bacon, Jr., said that Biden has “almost universal support within his own party, virtually none from the opposition party and terrible numbers among independents.” Biden, like previous Democratic presidents, Bacon wrote, struggles “to connect with younger and less engaged voters.” Bacon had nothing to say about Biden’s support for the Ukraine war because the poll apparently asked no questions about the administration’s foreign policy.
Ok and how are the republican front runners doing right now? and how many of them are not towing the establishment line with Ukraine?
The looming disaster in Ukraine, and its political implications, should be a wake-up call for those Democratic members of Congress who support the president but disagree with his willingness to throw many billions of good money after bad in Ukraine in the hope of a miracle that will not arrive.
Nigger this looming disaster has been looming since the war began and your ilk announced ukraine would crumble in less than a week.....then less than a fortnight....then less than a month....then less than two months....and so on until we reach the here and the now.
Also as previously mentioned, the US has historically spent
far more money on
far more moronic and less fruitful geostrategic ventures, so why exactly would they choose to stop pressing the "make russia shit itself for 50c" button?
Democratic support for the war is another example of the party’s growing disengagement from the working class. It’s their children who have been fighting the wars of the recent past and may be fighting in any future war. These voters have turned away in increasing numbers as the Democrats move closer to the intellectual and moneyed classes.
Yeah I guess the US has lost vast numbers of soldiers in Ukraine over the last few months....
If there is any doubt about the continuing seismic shift in current politics, I recommend a good dose of Thomas Frank, the acclaimed author of the 2004 best-seller What’s the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America, a book that explained why the voters of that state turned away from the Democratic party and voted against their economic interests. Frank did it again in 2016 in his book Listen, Liberal: Or, Whatever Happened to the Party of the People? In an afterword to the paperback edition he depicted how Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party repeated—make that amplified—the mistakes made in Kansas en route to losing a sure-thing election to Donald Trump.
Still not hearing how a seismic shift will magically put some pro russian cabinet of whimsy and wonder in control and not just the other head of the establishment hydra.
It may be prudent for Joe Biden to talk straight about the war, and its various problems for America—and to explain why the estimated more than $150 billion that his administration has put up thus far turned out to be a very bad investment.
Shooting the country's most insistent and insufferable adversary in the spine and getting to watch it bleed out, revitalising and expanding NATO, shedding a decent chunk of mothballed shit (which
is where much/most of this $150 gorillion's value actually comes from) and getting it extra battle tested while also taking out a bunch of shit that would have gone to various US adversaries, sabotaging competing arms manufacturers, sealing Europe's dependency on the US for support and resources.....and with zero US casualties.
Anyway, aside from curing my boredom/sperginess for a half hour or so, the reason I did a point by point for this shit is because it is.....by declaration of the russian gubmint and every pro russia shill on the internet from far left to far right.....the *most* credible pro russian voice out there.
....and yet it reads the exact fucking same and is picked apart just as fucking easily as your average pepe escobar shitpiece. Each and every one of these fucking people feed from the same septic tank of overt russian state media shit, angry conspiracytard piss, and straight up schizo coom, and thus the end results all look the exact fucking same.
