Did You Know that Ukrainian soldiers are “routing Russian forces and collapsing Russia’s northern Donbas axis?”

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by Larry Johnson

Nope, I did not know that. But thank God we have retired General Dave Petraeus to clue us in. He wrote the following 10 days ago:
 

  • A successful encirclement of Russian forces fleeing Izyum would result in the destruction or capture of significant Russian forces and exacerbate Russian manpower and morale issues.
  • The Russian MoD’s inability to admit Russian failures in Kharkiv Oblast and effectively set information conditions is collapsing the Russian information space. Kremlin-sponsored TV propagandists offered a wide range of confused explanations for Ukrainian successes ranging from justifications that Russian forces are fighting against the entire Western Bloc, to downplaying the importance of Russian ground lines of communication (GLOCS) in Kupyansk.
  • The withdrawal announcement further alienated the Russian milblogger and Russian nationalist communities that support the Kremlin’s grandiose vision for capturing the entirety of Ukraine. Russian milbloggers condemned the Russian MoD for remaining quiet, choosing self-isolation, and distorting situational awareness in Russia.

 
Turns out that General Dave experienced premature military orgasm. It is true that the Russians retreated from Izyum, but they were not surrounded. Putin has never claimed the “grandiose vision for capturing the entirety of Ukraine.” He has been quite clear–as recently as the press conference this week at the SCO–Russia is going to secure the Donbas. What about growing dissent in Russia about the SMO? Putin, based on his recent news conference at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, could give two shits about the feelings of “the Russian milblogger and Russian nationalist communities.”
 
I am citing Petraeus not because I respect his alleged military “genius.” I do not not. General Dave had the reputation at West Point as the consummate sychophant. The other cadets said he would marry the Commandant’s homely daughter just to get ahead. Guess what? He did. I cite Petraeus because his views are emblematic of the Washington national security establishment who are totally committed to lying about the reality in Ukraine. No matter what the actual situation is on the ground, Ukraine is winning, Russia is losing and it is just a matter of time before Russia implodes. This theme has been trotted out and paraded around the internet almost every month since March by Ukraine’s western enablers.
 
The Hill just published another installment of this delusional analysis by Mark Toth and Jonathan Sweet. Let’s meet the boys:

Mark Toth is a retired economist, historian and entrepreneur who has worked in banking, insurance, publishing and global commerce. He is a former board member of the World Trade Center, St. Louis, and has lived in U.S. diplomatic and military communities around the world, including London, Tel Aviv, Augsburg and Nagoya. [link]

Jonathan Sweet, a retired Army colonel, served 30 years as a military intelligence officer. His background includes tours of duty with the 101st Airborne Division and the Intelligence and Security Command. He led the U.S. European Command Intelligence Engagement Division from 2012-14, working with NATO partners in the Black Sea and Baltics. [link]

I do not know if their article is the result of ignorance, willful blindness or if they were paid to push propaganda. Regardless of the motive, Toth and Sweet join the Petraeus club and push the objective lie that the tenacious Ukrainians are defeating the Russian army:

it is Ukrainian soldiers, equipped and trained by English-speaking countries, alongside their allies who have opened fresh cans of whoop-ass and are inflicting a beatdown of Putin’s military forces in the Donbas.
 
…There has been one constant since Putin’s illegal invasion began in February: Russia’s military forces have been forced to retreat and regroup, time and time again. . . .
 
Putin has been exposed as an “emperor with no clothes,” forced to rely upon haggling with Iranian and North Korean surrogates to purchase drones and, according to the New York Times, “millions of artillery shells and rockets.” Saturating social media with disinformation and excuses about why Russian ground forces are failing cannot mask the images of abandoned equipment and reports of Russian soldiers surrendering.

Do you remember that incredible defeat of the Russian army in Mariupol when the Ukrainians surrounded the Russian troops and forced the surrender of 2500 combatants? Neither do I. That is what Russia did to the Ukrainian AZOV battalion.
 
How about the Russians fleeing in terror ahead of the Ukrainian blitzkrieg around Kherson? Nope. Another dry hole. The Russians pushed that attack back and inflicted catastrophic casualties on the Ukrainians.
 
What about the Luhansk People’s Republic? Ukraine held on to that and crushed the Russian backed militia. Right? Wrong!! Luhansk was secured and the same process is underway now in the Donetsk People’s Republic.
 
Why do western political, military and media leaders embrace demonstrable lies? I think it reflects a deeper sickness that afflicts the west. This self-delusion is not an isolated phenomena. Biden, his military commanders and the mainstream media also insist that men can be women and become pregnant, that inflation is zero, that Biden is popular, and that pedophiles are not bad people. Oh yeah, one more–the southern border of the United States is secure.
 
The time is coming when reality will intrude and destroy the fantasies. It happened to Baghdad Bob, who insisted there were no U.S. tanks in Baghdad in March 2003, and will happen to General Dave, Mark Toth and Jonathan Sweet. Seven months into the Russian “Special Military Operation,” Putin and his Generals have committed only a small fraction of their military forces to the conflict. They seem content to destroy Ukrainian units and equipment with artillery, missiles and mortars and force NATO to keep supplying Ukraine so that it can send its troops, armed with new equipment, to the front to be destroyed.
 
Yet NATO’s European members do not have the industrial capacity to replace the donated military equipment and are facing a bleak winter with scant energy resources needed to power manufacturing plants. The United States also is depleting its stockpile of weapons. Raheem Kassam has provided a very useful summary of what the United States has sent to Ukraine (read here). For example, the United States has provided Ukraine in six months more Javelins than it can produce in one year. So far the number stands at more than 8500, which is more than one-third of the U.S. total arsenal.
 
And how many Russian tanks have the Ukrainians destroyed with these Javelins? We do not know. The U.S. intelligence community does not know. U.S. intelligence is relying on Ukraine to report the good news and the Ukrainians simply say, “lots.” In theory, U.S. intelligence analysts have the ability to use satellite imagery to count disabled and destroyed tanks. But I am told that has not happened.

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They will keep up this level of propaganda until November. It’s to spin, so the media complex will say Biden “is winning” in Ukraine.

The NYT, CNN, WaPo, and the 90% of all news media compromised by the Democrat Party is the same as the Soviet Era “Pravda.”

Gregs heros
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Anyone who is pimping for Trump when they’re not pimping for Putin is no American patriot.

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When you find any American’s pimping for Trump or Putin, let me know.

Biden Pimps get paid to post lies online, trying to invert reality by simply speaking it into being like they are a Oprah-approved snake oil salesmen.

President Trumps economy was the best economy of this century hands down

MAGA? When you’re providing aid and comfort to Freedom’s enemies, both in America and abroad?

There are some very fine people among Trump’s Tiki Torch Nazis…

Debunked.

Trump never supported Nazis, though you currently are.

Last edited 1 year ago by Nathan Blue

How did you ever get it in your heads that a murderous, tyrannical son-of-a-bitch like Putin is worthy of respect and support, while a peaceful nation resisting his unprovoked invasion in their own fields, forests, towns, and cities should be spat on?

Then you wonder why we don’t want your lying mob leader or anyone like him in the White House…

Consider the possibility that we might reasonably question your judgement, if not your motives.

Last edited 1 year ago by Greg

How did you ever get it in your heads that a murderous, tyrannical son-of-a-bitch like Putin is worthy of respect and support,

Nobody has said that. You support and even represent a regime that is equal to Putin’s own:

Unelected, election-rigging, opponent-raiding, and anti-democratic.

You and Putin are the same. We’re pointing out what a dumbfuck you are for trying to pretend you’re not.

Consider the possibility that we might reasonably question your judgement, if not your motives.

Yessss….tell me who “we” are, you dumb motherfucker. Let it slip. Tell us who you are and who you work for.

Enemies of the state, for one.

How did you ever get it in your heads that a murderous, tyrannical son-of-a-bitch like Putin is worthy of respect and support, while a peaceful nation resisting his unprovoked invasion in their own fields, forests, towns, and cities should be spat on?

It was YOUR side that used Putin’s Russian agents to supply them with lies to try and undercut Trump’s campaign, then to try and run a coup against him as President. Trump has no allegiance to Putin, Democrats do.

Only committed liars still try to pass off that known and proven lie. Is that why you are still clinging to it?

biden=freedoms

NOT

No evidence of that.

Currently, Biden has made his political enemies the new “Jew” in America, as he takes away freedoms daily.

Trump = Freedom

Biden = Dictatorship

You have no argument. You can’t prove your statements, and you can only resort to lying and repeating it.

That ship has sailed, Mr. Alinsky.

Mega = Make America Great Again
Do you not want a Great America commie boy?

There are virtually no examples of Rightwing violence or fascist-like behavior.

Leftists, however, ARE violent (empirically) and take actions that match the very definition of Fascism.

 a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition

The Left has done this, updating the idea with exalting submission to the new “woke” death cult and relegating anyone who resists them as a inferior race that needs to be exterminated.

Dictator Biden said as much on national television.

MAGA’s law-and-order credibility went out the window with their reflexive justification of EVERY police shooting, with January 6, and with their refusal to hold Trump legally accountable for ANYTHING he says or does. MAGA took the GOP’s credibility with them.

Trump threatens grave consequences for America if he’s indicted. Think about that threat for a minute.

Last edited 1 year ago by Greg

MAGA’s law-and-order credibility went out the window with their reflexive justification of EVERY police shooting, with January 6, and with their refusal to hold Trump legally accountable for ANYTHING he says or does. MAGA took the GOP’s credibility with them.

That was the narrative you morons wanted to seed, but it didn’t take.

Federal Police initiated a riot to support their false-flag. They executed a Trump supporter, in cold blood.

No other deaths occurred due to the “riot.”

So given the ONE example you can’t use effectively is easily dismissed at the Leftwing, Deep State ruse it is, we have thousands of examples of Leftwing violence, and 25 or so dead during the Democrat insurrections of 2020

That’s not a narrative. It’s the observable reality of recent American history.

“Federal police initiated a riot” is the hallucinatory narrative. There’s no more evidence of that than of Trump’s “massive election fraud.”

Last edited 1 year ago by Greg

ONE riot caused by the FBI/CIA (observable reality) vs thousands of attacks on our citizens and government by Leftist?

Yours is a FAILED narrative. One you will pay for in November.

You and your Party have never been able to spin Trump literally calling for peace, and FBI agents caught on camera working with antifa to create a fake “insurrection” into anything more than a desperate move by a dying political Party and movement.

Last edited 1 year ago by Nathan Blue

“Federal police initiated a riot” is the hallucinatory narrative

It would be if we didn’t have them dead to rights, on camera you feckless twit.

Isn’t it time to begin chanting “State Farm Arena!” or “Hang Mike Pence!”?

I’ll leave you to it, as I’ve heard it all before.

Think about that threat for a minute.

It’s a legal, Constitutional, and freedom-loving threat that will save our nation and defeat you fools in your tyrannical steps.

What’s not to like?

What’s not to like?

Possibly that if he tries it, he’ll be put up against a wall and shot?

That’s the sort of thing happens when the rule of law breaks down in a nation. It’s not a place that any sane American should ever want to go. But he’s the one making thinly veiled threats of violence in America if the law comes after him.

You seem oblivious to the danger—and at times almost hopeful for it.

Last edited 1 year ago by Greg

Are you threatening the 45th President of the United States again, greg?

Thanks for proving my point.

I’ll write it again, since you’re a coward.

It’s a legal, Constitutional, and freedom-loving threat that will save our nation and defeat you fools in your tyrannical steps.

But he’s the one threatening violence if the law comes after him.

Trump has threatened no violence.

You have.

You represent an illegal Federal regime that has no power, no authority, and is not the legal government of the United States.

Stammer all you’d like. You have no power to realize you authoritarian state, and it’s been showing with your increasingly unhinged comments, as of late.

he’ll be put up against a wall and shot?

That’s certainly what you want, because you people can’t win elections on the merit of your platform. You’ve gone full-Putin.

And by all means, when you find some actual proof of Trump acting like a Nazi, do share.

In the meantime, we have dictator Biden drooling under red lights, with storm-troopers, threating half the country if they don’t go along with his false regime.

That’s a REAL Nazi, you stupid shit.

Last edited 1 year ago by Nathan Blue

No? No proof? No examples of Trump threatening violence or something?

No video evidence….I mean, things that don’t actually EXONERATE him of wrongdoing whilst you pretend it’s incriminating?

Nothing at all?

Loser.

Last edited 1 year ago by Nathan Blue

No, as anyone with an 8th grade reading level or better will understand. It is Donald Trump who was made a threat, typically wrapping it in the verbal ambiguity of a mob boss.

Are you threatening the 45th President of the United States again, greg?

Donald Trump who was made a threat, typically wrapping it in the verbal ambiguity of a mob boss.

He’s made no threat. Again, you can only talk, but can’t show me the illegal, criminal threat.

You however, threatened to kill the 45th President of the United States.

I support Trump in threatening the Democrats, with his legal actions, rallies, endorsements, etc.

TRUMP HAS ALWAYS BEEN A THREAT THE TO VACUOUS, CORRUPT DEMOCRAT PARTY. YOU FOOLS LOST TO HIM, AND YOU’VE BEEN SO BLINDED THAT YOU’VE BECOME TOTALITARIAN GOONS THAT WILL BE REMOVED FROM OUT GOVERNMENT WHILE WE RESTORE DEMOCRACY, DUE PROCESS, RULE OF LAW, AND DEFEAT YOUR IDIOTIC WOKE RELIGION.

Your are a raving lunatic

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Hahaha.

MAGA’s law-and-order credibility went out the window with their reflexive justification of EVERY police shooting, with January 6, and with their refusal to hold Trump legally accountable for ANYTHING he says or does. 

Why don’t you take a moment and provide evidence of “reflexive justification of EVERY police shooting”? You mistake objecting to YOUR accusation that every police shooting is evidence of racism and justification to crucify a cop and destroy a police department for defense of the shootings. Some are justified, some are not, but NONE have been shown to be the result of racism, either of the officer or the department. That is simply the racist game you Democrats like to play.

The January 6th riot, most notable for its significant singularity, was most likely instigated by FBI assets working at the behest of the Democrats. Much of the evidence points in that direction with NONE incriminating Trump or Republicans.

Democrats are violent, corrupt, racist fascists. They have no credibility in ANY area.