RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, SEPTEMBER 7
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Ukraine is getting excited.
The pro-Ukraine sources are getting excited and not because of the southern offensive.
These are the types of breakouts that you keep paratroopers and other quick reaction forces on hand so that they can buy you time. I guess now we will find out how many of them the Russians have left after using them to man the line down south……
This one might be pure propaganda but it gives you a taste of what is out there..
This is the pro-Russian view. You can tell they are worried when they start explaining that they are really fighting NATO and not Ukrainians…..
This is a Ukraine view in counter to the above……
All that said, there is always a real risk of overextensions on these kinds of things. This is a true test of the mobility of the Russian arms. If they have reserves of any significance left, they should be able to pincer this attack and it might even help them now that the Ukrainians are out of the trench. But if they tied up their best troops holding the line then this will be textbook example of why your elite forces are supposed to be in reserve (where Napoleon famously kept his Old Guard for example).
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You best single overview of the Ukraine Counterattack
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What is up in Ukraine?
It is make or break time for Ukraine. Peter Zeihan has a good overview of what the stakes are.
The one thing that Peter does not go into is the consequences of failure for Ukraine. They really don’t have time on their hands. Western populations forced their leaders to adopt harder line on Russia then they really intended to (so much so that US treasury had to ask companies to not “over enforce” sanction regulations and EU ports were turning away legal Russian cargos because the longshore unions were refusing to unload). But the EU populations are starting to learn what the consequences are for their actions and Ukraine is going to start facing a falling off of support if for no other reason that all easy gifts (small arms, old stocks of soviet weapons in eastern European weapon stocks) have all been given. So the question of the hour is does Ukraine have a chance of achieving its goals in southern Ukraine?
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