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Berletic: Avdeevka Encirclement + US Prepares Ukraine for "Last Chance" Offensive, Surging Ammo

Posted by sashimi <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=sashimi' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 20, 2023, 4:15 am

Update on Russian military operations for March 20, 2023:

* Russian forces are not only encircling the fortified city of Bakhmut, but now
also apparently Avdiivka;

* Both cities are heavily fortified positions along Ukraine's main defense line
in the Donbass region and their encirclement will compromise the entire
defense line;

* Western media continues admitting critical shortages of Ukrainian manpower,
weapons, and ammunition;

* As Ukraine is preparing for its spring offensive, the US and its allies are
likely utilizing emergency stockpiles to surge the amount of artillery and
rocket ammunition to Ukraine in amounts much higher than have recently been
transferred;

* This surge is a one-time possibility after which Western stockpiles will be
exhausted and future shipments will depend mainly on monthly ammunition
production which and will be for several years unable to match or exceed
Russian ammunition supplies;

* Ukraine is being forced to organize a massive offensive using poorly trained
troops operating equipment they are unfamiliar with against Russian forces who
have been preparing to meet this offensive months in advance;

* Ukrainian forces could once again compel Russian forces into withdrawals but
will suffer immense losses before facing counteroffensives comprised of 350k
Russian reservists;

Re: Berletic: Avdeevka Encirclement + US Prepares Ukraine for "Last Chance" Offensive, Surging Ammo

Posted by Dovetail Joint <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Dovetail+Joint' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 20, 2023, 7:34 am, in reply to "Berletic: Avdeevka Encirclement + US Prepares Ukraine for "Last Chance" Offensive, Surging Ammo"

It's unlikely, but I don't believe they'll be any public reconining, debate or analysis, about how the West could get into a war with Russia without properly prparing for it! How was this possible? Surely the military didn't swallow the propaganda about the miserable state of the Russian military and how the Ukrainian army was going to roll over them and topple Putin? How incompetent do the leadershop of the West have to be before there are consequences? It doesn't make one feel optimism for the coming war with China?

Re: Berletic: Avdeevka Encirclement + US Prepares Ukraine for "Last Chance" Offensive, Surging Ammo

Posted by Keith-264 <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Keith-264' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 20, 2023, 7:40 am, in reply to "Re: Berletic: Avdeevka Encirclement + US Prepares Ukraine for "Last Chance" Offensive, Surging Ammo"

I think that the US empire is in a crisis of falling expectations, that it was more a matter of damned if the do, damned if they don't. I think that they're waiting for something to turn up.

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Re: Berletic: Avdeevka Encirclement + US Prepares Ukraine for "Last Chance" Offensive, Surging Ammo

Posted by Dovetail Joint <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Dovetail+Joint' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 20, 2023, 10:19 am, in reply to "Re: Berletic: Avdeevka Encirclement + US Prepares Ukraine for "Last Chance" Offensive, Surging Ammo"

It's certainly no way to run an Empire. Everything seems... 'improvised' on the spot, with precious little strategic planning. I know they spent eight years preparing the Ukrainian army for war with Russia, but expecting the Russians to fold, seems reckless. Expecting to win, wanting to win, thinking the West has a divine right to win; is one thing, but no substitute for artillery! It's like the sanctions war against Russia. A total failure. No Russian economic collapse in sight. I know the neocons aren't all that interested in economics, but that it's so easy for them to lead the United States in one disasterous military adventure after the other, is still surprsing.

Re: Berletic: Avdeevka Encirclement + US Prepares Ukraine for "Last Chance" Offensive, Surging Ammo

Posted by Ian M <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ian+M' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 20, 2023, 11:47 am, in reply to "Re: Berletic: Avdeevka Encirclement + US Prepares Ukraine for "Last Chance" Offensive, Surging Ammo"

Haven't US and Western militaries generally been money-spinning enterprises since at least the end of the cold war?(Also during the cold war if the point made during the No 2 NATO speeches was correct, about soviet military capability only being 40% of what western intel was saying.) ie: they scrape just about enough hardware together to bomb the bejeezus out of 3rd world countries, but otherwise it's just a funnel of taxpayer money to giant corporations making pointless hyper-expensive boondoggles that don't even work. I think we're seeing this come apart in Ukraine against an enemy making targeted investments in material & manpower to achieve concrete goals after a preparation of only around 5 years. US MIC goons should be too embarrassed to show their faces in public, and if this carries on they won't even be capable of defending their own borders, much less 'projecting' their power around the world as they've grown used to doing. Rejoice!

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