Published December 11, 2023
The two-part Washington Post report on the failed Ukraine counter-offensive was written primarily to blame Ukraine for the debacle and exonerate the United States. My analysis of those articles (here and here) highlighted astounding miscalculations and malpractice by U.S. and NATO advisors. The fundamental flaw is the U.S. military personnel are pretending to have experience that they do not have. The U.S. military is like a Driver’s Education school. They are qualified and competent to teach students how to drive a car on city streets. They can teach how to drive in reverse, how to parallel park and how to navigate getting on to a super highway. But they are not qualified to teach GT race car drivers how to be competitive at the 24 Hours of Le Mans or the Indianapolis 500.
The Ukrainian counter-offensive required having trained soldiers with a mix of skill and competence similar to that required of professional race car drivers. But they were not properly trained. They got the equivalent of a driver’s education class. Guess what happens when you put those “students” in a race with professional drivers? Yep. Massive car wreck.
To extend the race car metaphor, professional drivers also have the best equipment and crew teams ready to service those vehicles if there is a problem. Ukraine was given a patchwork system of NATO tanks and personnel carriers that lacked standardization (several of us wrote about this earlier this year, including Brian Berletic, Doug MacGregor, Scott Ritter and me) and proved unreliable in combat conditions.
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SOURCE: www.thegatewaypundit.com
RELATED: Senate Republican says US needs to accept Ukraine will ‘cede some territory’ to Russia
Published December 10, 2023
Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) said Sunday that the United States needs to accept that Ukraine will likely need to “cede some territory” to Russia to end the fighting.
Vance told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union” that he is opposed to sending more aid to Ukraine because he does not believe the country will ever be able to overpower Russia. He questioned why sending billions in aid to Ukraine is going to help the country at this point in its war against Russia, considering previous aid has yet to end the war.
“What’s in America’s best interest is to accept Ukraine is going to have to cede some territory to the Russians, and we need to bring this war to a close,” Vance said. “But when I think about the great human tragedy here, hundreds of thousands of Eastern Europeans innocent have been killed in this conflict. The thing that’s in our interest and in theirs is to stop the killing.”
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SOURCE: www.thehill.com
RELATED:Putin believes Ukraine will fall within just months without new US aid, says Senate Intelligence Chair
Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) speaking with reporters after attending a closed-door, classified briefing for Senators at the US Capitol Building on February 14, 2023 in Washington, DC.Getty Images
Published December 9, 2023
- Senate Intelligence Chair Mark Warner said Putin believes that Ukraine will fall in just months.
- Warner drew his assessment from US intelligence after senators blocked a $175 million aid package.
- “Vladimir Putin’s hopes for victory rest on the US walking away from Ukraine,” he said.
Senate Intelligence Chair Mark Warner said Vladimir Putin believes that Ukraine will fall within just months without renewed US military aid.
Sen. Warner asked, “Why, at this moment in time, would we prove Putin right?”
Warner made the statement on Wednesday after the Senate failed to hit the 60-vote threshold required to advance a new “crucial” military aid package to Ukraine.
“Vladimir Putin’s hopes for victory rest on the US walking away from Ukraine,” Warner wrote.
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SOURCE: www.businessinsider.com
