Alexander Mercouris
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Republicans Discuss Impeachment; Russia Kharkov Offensive Gains More Ground, Ukr Attacks Bakhmut, South Fail; German Military Blames Ukr Failed Offensive
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I thought it bizarre to blame Wagner for not setting up a defense for Bakhmut. They were in a very tough battle for many months. I think you were being unreasonable.
Good point. Perhaps Alexander means to say, apart from pointing out the absence of defense, any ground gained is worth capturing is worth defending, usually. Wagner were suposed to have gone slower according to stragegy and capture of Bakhmut city was not most important strategically, in which case they could then have lain down defences as they proceeded. Not every hundred metres, but somewhere at some point. Then, counter offensives by the Ukrainians would be easier to manage. After all, one has to expect a counter offensive at some point or just suddenly win the war upon capture of Bakhmut,… Read more »
P.S. As a result Prigozhin’s grand moves were paid handsomely for in the lives of petty convict volunteers hoping to regain honour in life and, I suspect, continues to cost more Russisan servicemen lives now.
Didn’t Alexander say that Prigozhin didn’t think that building defences was necessary?
Diplomacy was turned down – it’s win or lose in battle. Otherwise, only unilateral capitulation by any number of NATO members with withdrawal of political and material support, is the only course for diplomacy, agreeing to Russia’s sated obejectives. I doubt the German Officer is saying that oficers trained in tactical warfare but without battle experience are to be preffered over officers without battle experience and with tactical trsasining. He may well prefer both, but is saying that the battle expereince is insufficient. It certainly seems true that the Uktrainians are spead too thinly in order to gain through offensive,… Read more »
Quite agree with your conclusions of the blame game.
The White House can now serve as a three funtion building.
1) Residence of the current head puppet of the Deep State.
2) Nursing home if #1 requires that.
3) Prison since #1 undoubtedly should be in one.