Posted on 03/15/2023 7:52:57 PM PDT by Mariner
The U.S. military is rushing equipment to the battlefield and training Ukrainian forces at a rapid pace, ahead of a major offensive against Russia expected by late spring.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin projected a sense of urgency on Wednesday after a virtual meeting of the multinational Ukraine Defense Contact Group, saying that “Ukraine doesn’t have any time to waste.”
“We have to deliver swiftly and fully on our promised commitments,” Austin said. “That includes delivering our armored capabilities to the battlefield and ensuring that Ukrainian soldiers get the training, spare parts and maintenance support that they need to use these new systems, as soon as possible.”
As spring approaches, U.S. officials are increasingly concerned about Ukraine’s dwindling supply of ammunition, air defenses and experienced soldiers. Moscow and Kyiv are continuing to throw bodies into the fight for a southeastern city the U.S. does not consider strategically important. But the Pentagon says that regardless of Kyiv's battlefield strategy, the U.S. wants Ukraine's soldiers to have the weapons they need to keep fighting.
Russia has spent months pummeling the country with missiles, seeking not only to cause destruction but also deplete Ukraine’s air defense stocks. Ukrainian soldiers have described acute shortages of basic ammunition, including mortar rounds and artillery shells. And upwards of 100,000 Ukrainian forces have died in the year-long war, U.S. officials estimate, including the most experienced soldiers.
Many of these losses are taking place in Bakhmut, where both sides are suffering massive casualties. Led by soldiers from the mercenary Wagner Group, Russia has laid siege to the southeastern city for nine months, reducing it to ruins. Ukrainian forces have refused to yield, with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy insisting that defending Bakhmut is key to holding other eastern cities.
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Lots of interesting details.
Why would you broadcast this?
You should have pursued Putin after the summer pullback last year. Now it’s too late and there’s no one left.
Just sign a peace treaty
As The World Turns...
This doesn’t sound like winning.
who is ‘you?’
mariner’s general bias on this is quite well known to anyone paying attention.
articles from both sides are worth reading, if only to get the propaganda in both ears. echo chambers are bad.
I was told Putin was on his deathbed? MUST have been Putin’s gh-gh-ghost! meeting with Syrian President earlier today.
Dude, Ukraine is totally winning! Can’t you hear the techno music bumping and Zelenskyy and his male hoes dancing?
“training Ukrainian forces at a rapid pace”
Why sign a peace treaty? There is obviously young, untrained cannon fodder left.
Saint George Washington Zelensky cannot be defeated!
I think the communist Biden Regime and NATO really screwed the pooch on this one. Beating up on third world countries made them think they could pull off the same trick on Russia. Russia isn’t playing and they are grinding up both the Ukrainians and the military equipment of the West.
Madness. We could lose our whole way of life spending money on this endless war. Let them fight it out.
You really could not make this s*** up.
100,000 on the back of dementia joe.
I sure as hell would not want that destruction on my soul.
I don’t think Ukraine is in any position to launch any kind of “offensive”. As far as I can tell, they are hanging on by their fingernails. But we shall see.
Which “peace treaty” do you suggest somebody “just sign”?
Both sides are depleted.
US wanted Ukraine to fall back from Bachmut, and they wouldn’t listen.
Are they going to use the new armor the way we think best? They are supposed to be training on tactics as well.
I guess if they had those units right now they could attack the flanks of the Russian armies that are trying to encircle Bachmut.
Others thought they would attack Crimea, but with them refusing to yield Bachmut, it seems the armor will have to go there.
A lot of high stakes decisions being made.
The new Ukrainian units better be super well trained, because they are going to be fully tested as rookies.
The offensive is supposed to be with the 70k new armored forces who are training and will be added to the battle field.
But they aren’t ready yet and I don’t think they can do the job alone.
They may be too late, or the rest of the army may be too weakened to support them.
At the moment the Russian offensive is barely creeping along, but they may achieve a break out.
Biden and his staff want the US to get into a shooting match with Russia. He hopes to win so he can run on it. Never mind that most likely 10x more will die in this war than what died in Afghanistan and Iraq combined. Troops will just be cannon fodder for him.
Vlod the Piano Man hasn't even gotten around to press-ganging the 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16-year-olds yet...
if this gay nato war was winnable
the usa marxist knight templar volunteers
would overwhelm them
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