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    Scott Ritter: Finally the Bull Charged Archived 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

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