Posted on 09/08/2022 7:50:58 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
Ukrainian officials, defending their country against Russian aggressors, began doing something in July that seemed odd, even counterintuitive: They started speaking loudly and regularly about their plans to liberate Kherson—a key southern city that Russia seized only a week after invading Ukraine on February 24. Indeed, the Ukrainians telegraphed their intentions in a way that the Russians could not mistake. This was like waving a red cape at an angry, incompetent bull. Almost immediately, rumors proliferated that the Russians were racing reinforcements to Kherson to prepare for the Ukrainian attack.
Goading the Russians into doing so seems to have been the Ukrainians’ exact goal. Fighting in Kherson plays to Ukrainian strength far more than to the Russians’. Russian occupiers in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas, where the war had been concentrated from April until July, can operate very close to the Russian border, seem to have solidly functional rail lines, and are currently trying to pressure the Ukrainians from two sides at the tip of the fighting around the town of Siversk. Fighting in Kherson, by contrast, nullifies almost all of Russia’s advantages in the Donbas. The Russians are at the edge of their supply lines, while the Ukrainians can maneuver around them. Kherson is deeper into Ukraine than the Donbas, so Russian aircraft have farther to travel to reach the front lines, and that clearly makes them nervous; they prefer to fly mostly over Russia itself or its ally Belarus. Finally, the entire Russian fighting force in Kherson depends for its supplies on just a small number of bridges that span the wide Dnipro River. In recent weeks, the Ukrainians have attacked those crossings almost nightly, severely hindering Russia from moving supplies to their hard-pressed troops in Kherson.
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A war on our pocketbook.
(((YAWN))) Tell Jo Jo the clown or one of his idiots to send ‘em another 40 billion.
Deception is integral to war.
But.. but… what does Moonbat of Alabama have to say about this??
Goading Russians is a bit more work than that. If the Russians just lashed out in an agry fashion in response to Ukrainian provocations, Kyiv would have been flattened by strategic bombing long ago.
Biden is the one who goaded the Russians.
No, we are in a proxy war with Russia.
The only thing new in Ukraines war is their large media propaganda machinery.
And they lashed out and responded to sanctions on gas and oil by cutting off gas and oil sales. How fascist of them.
No...just more pap from the left, delivered by a spam-bot.
Hilarious. Their offensive failed, and so now they come out and say we never really wanted to take it we wanted to trick you into protecting it. Aesop‘s fables, fox and the grapes.
“Kyiv would have been flattened by strategic bombing long ago.”
Except we all know that’s not true, because the Russians are afraid to fly over Ukrainian airspace and lose more of their planes to Uke air defense.
Exactly. The war they are waging is to help our politicians bankrupt us, while Russia becomes more economically powerful.
And, the source is the left-wing website the Atlantic? lol
Agree. Add to that the depletion of our military missiles and equipment. It is us being depleted.
China is getting the biggest benefit out of this war.
Ka-ching!
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