Posted on 04/23/2024 12:45:38 PM PDT by Kazan
Alexander Mercouris discusses Ukrainian brigades fleeing the key village of Ocheretino without a fight without orders to do so.
Why is Ocheretino so important?
Ocheretino dominates the entire area
- GEROMAN -- time will tell - 👀 --
@GeromanAT
for people who do not know how important Ocheretino is. it dominates the whole area and will give Russian forces the opportunity to spread out in all directions. I would call that a breakthrough.
2:52 PM · Apr 22, 2024
This looks like something interesting for the Zeeper Follies ping list.
They still haven’t figured out that they’re the entertainment.
Pokrovsk is the big prize. If that falls, Zelensky can pack his bags for his Miami mansion while Poroshenko, Klitschko, and Zaluzhny form a triumvirate to launder Bidenbucks and stabilize the rump state.
I’ll listen to this later, but it’s probably a good time for Zelensky to cash the check and get into the wind.
I’m sure the Russians will be in Kyiv in 24 hours. Given the Russian manpower shortage, why haven’t you enlisted?
The Zeepers will surely proclaim, “Tis but a flesh wound!”
Villages are very small towns. I once lived in an actual village. The streets were cobblestone and there was one intersection where one road into town met the main road that went through town. There was one store and one gasthaus. There were probably a couple of hundred people in the whole village. The farmers fertilized the fields with the sewage from the town. Houses were heated with coal. I don’t see how something so small could be “key” in any war.
Nobody fled. There was a mistake during rotation which allowed the Russians to move forward into the village.
You’ve been living off that lie for two years. Time for some new material.
The Canadian is usually the first one to do that.
And, this is the sort of incompetence we just wasted $61 billion on.
Watching this develop on the maps, the Russians made a rapid advance across some country into Ocheretino. As to the stalemate, no, Russia is waging a war of attrition, which means mainly bombing and artillery, but certainly does not rule out probing for weak spots and taking advantage to improve positions. Small unit operations are the rule, no massive offensives unless leadership believes there is a great chance of success. Nothing suggests that at this point, despite talk of Ukrainian “collapse.”
The 61 billion dollars will help many American families enjoy a nice summer vacation, buy a boat, pay off the mortgage, and get high paying jobs. Meanwhile your Russian friends will be dying in the fields of Ukraine.
Reducing Russia's ability to wage war on their neighbors is a good thing, and will save many European and maybe even American lives in the future.
By my estimate, we could have bought 6 Aircraft Carriers for $61B, providing they didn’t have extra bathrooms for women, gays, and Drag Queens (otherwise 5 carriers).
Highgrove House belongs to the British Royal Family.
It is a lovely place, you might want to visit if you can get a visa.
On the other hand, if you really think Zelensky owns Highgrove House perhaps you can send me your bank account numbers so I can help a friend from overseas recover some money owned to him.
Bakhmut wasn’t important. Avdeevka wasn’t important. Mariupol wasn’t important. Soon, you’ll be saying Kharkiv wasn’t important. Odessa wasn’t important...
Things don’t look good for Ukraine. The West’s feeble attempts to help them fall far short of what they need to fight Russia. The Russians increased their weapons production to war time levels. The West has done no such thing. Ukraine suffers from lack of weapons and ammunition on top of a shortage of fighting age men. They will not defeat a well armed country that is 5X as big as they are. The F16S and the billions Washington just gave to our defense industry will do little or nothing to help Ukraine win the war. I just watched an Abrams tank get destroyed by a fin stabilized artillery shell that was laser designated to the target by a drone. Western tanks haven’t done anything to change the direction of the war.
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