Russia Closing The Noose On Ukrainian Troops

It is impressive how rapidly Western attention moved from the war in Ukraine to the war in Israel. As I kept in mind in some current interviews, Ukraine’s Zelensky is scared and shocked by this turnaround and is attempting frantically to remain pertinent and draw in Western attention. Best of luck with that. The media chooses to concentrate on the brand-new story of Arab crowds sweeping down on Israeli civilians instead of attempt to come up with reasons for Ukraine’s failure to even breach the very first line of the Surovikin defense. One noticeable indication of Zelensky’s panic– he altered his closet. Now, when he appears in public, rather of using his Fidel Castro outfit (i.e., sporting an Army green tee shirt or sweatshirt and tactical trousers) he is now equipped like a more youthful, much shorter variation of Johnny Cash. Black is his brand-new style option.

With Western eyes glued to the Middle East, Russia is on the offensive a pressing Ukrainians back the whole time the line of contact. Russian war reporter Marat reports:

For example, the other day near Kleshcheevka, on the best front of the Bakhmut defense, our paratroopers from the 106 th department, which had actually been holding the defense here for more than 4 months, suddenly introduced a counterattack, inhabiting numerous opponent fortress. The exact same holds true in the Rabotino sector– the 1430 th and 70 th programs, who heroically battled here for numerous days, have actually been performing routine counterattacks for the 3rd week.

On the one hand, this mentions the good condition that our army remains in, and on the other hand, it entirely resolves the misconceptions of Ukrainian propaganda about our terrific losses.

Units that suffer heavy losses are just physically not able to immediately go from defense to offense. Even if they are routinely renewed with brand-new employees.

And now, in reality, this sends out the Ukrainians into an ever higher panic– they are starting to comprehend that with their methods of unlimited self-destructive counterattacks and obstinacy on every piece of land, they provoked Russia into producing an army of such power that is now starting to roll them into flat cakes.

Once once again, the opponent provoked this himself.

Ukraine can forget any brand-new mass infusion of weapons from the United States or NATO. Israel is now at the head of the line and gets very first option. Another indication that things are going from bad to even worse for Ukraine– the Institute for the Study of War is confessing reluctantly that Russia is advancing. The ISW is still in business of painting a pig’s lips with glossy gloss and are attempting their darnedest to down play Russian success. The realities are these. Ukraine’s forces have actually been annihilated over the last 4 months and there is no prepared reserve in sight to change the eliminated and injured soldiers that were bloodied as they tossed themselves versus Russian protective positions.

NATO is not all set to cut the cable, however it likewise is not in a position to shower Ukraine with an endless supply of tanks, weapons, armored workers providers and ammo. What was as soon as a flood of assistance is developing into a drip.

The West is now captured in the trap of attempting to sustain 2 proxy wars without the commercial influence to even totally provide one. I anticipate the U.S. Congress to act rapidly to get military product to Israel. There is broad bipartisan assistance for that. Not so with Ukraine. A growing variety of members of Congress, primarily Republican, are questioning the knowledge of sending out valuable Himars, Patriot batteries and tanks to a Ukrainian Army incapable of pressing the Russian in reverse.

I talked about these problems last Friday with Nima while attending my high school 50 th reunion. Yes, I’m an old guy.