Scott Ritter: Finally the Bull ChargedArchived Message
Posted by sashimi on June 11, 2023, 5:45 am
10 Jun 2023
Finally the bull charged.
The long-awaited Ukrainian counter-offensive has finally begun. After months of handwringing and speculation, the western investment in Ukrainian military might has been put on display for the whole world to see - billions of dollars of advanced weaponry, drawn from NATO stocks, manned by Ukrainian soldiers who have been trained by NATO instructors, and whose actions have been shaped by NATO intelligence and directed by NATO planners. Let there be no doubt - this is a NATO offensive, a sad reflection on the reality that what was once called a simple proxy conflict has morphed into so much more - direct force-on-force combat between the collective west and Russia.
For Anne Applebaum, this offensive is an answer to her prayers. The Polish-American Pulitzer Prize-winning historian has for some time now been calling for such an action, a decisive blow by the collective west and Ukraine against a Russia she characterizes as autocratic and dangerous. The lessons of history have been shunted aside in favor of her feverish lust for Russian blood. Killing Russians, Applebaum believes, is the only way for the civilized west to show the Russian nation - autocrats and automatons alike - that the price for regional hegemony is too high for the Russian people and their government to bear. -- Cont'd at https://www.scottritterextra.com/p/finally-the-bull-charged