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It appears Ukraine is having a tough time. Such a lage piece of land can not be won easily. And the land won will have resisters and sabotage artists to screw with the occupation.

The big question is:will Zelensky leave office? I bet he won't. Despite his losses Zelensky remains determined to stay in power.

He'll last for another year or so. Then retire to Florida with all his I'll gotten cash.

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Oh by the way,Mike. That was a really nice news feed today. You put most American news writers to shame.

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I accept compliments even when undeserved. I had meant to only write deep articles, but time has gotten away with me. I acted as a news aggregator for Ukraine/Russia (today) and Palestine (yesterday) out of guilt, thinking doing something is better than doing nothing.

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Netanhayu, Trump, Biden and Zelensky, sipping cocktails at Mar-a-Lago...

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There’s a lot to go through here. I did check out the story of the family with six kids. Between this and the music it may be a late night. Thanks.

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Making people sleepless is the ultimate objective.

I appreciated the Ukrainian view from Chasiv Yar. Life there will become much harder for them this week. Russians are up to the canal, having taken control of the forest to the south-east. If they cross, they will be able to attack from two directions. Sure will be hell attacking uphill.

I enjoyed Bald a lot. Only way I'm going for a walk in Tajikistan.

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It’s an attritional battle, so capturing territory (which will be destroyed in the process) is not a priority. Keep grinding keep rolling the dice make the Ukranians who haven’t had any home leave since 2022 have to keep jumping up and running to their positions to repel attacks. Grind grind grind, you have more pepper in the grinder than they do.

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That it, for the most part now. Before that, it was hold position and let the Ukrainians run over minefields.

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It’s just insane that the counteroffensive designed by the brilliant NATO strategists relied on a frontal assault on a heavily fortified position, carried out without air support and at a 3:1 (or worse) deficit in artillery.

History is full of those failures with the accompanying comment that the designer of the plan should have flunked out of staff college. Nevertheless, they persist.

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Was it ego or deliberate loss? I don't know.

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I read that the training wasn’t well suited to the war. A lot of focus on spotting insurgents in a hostile crowd and eliminating the threat. And there really is no training for this war except fighting in it.

I think they had to announce an objective that sounded decisive, and the breakthrough to the sea was the only option that sounded worth the risk.

Another in a long list of military adventures that seemed like a good idea once but soon acquired a momentum of their own and lost all touch with reality.

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That's what fits into the ego option, and even that has the fundamental mistake of not caring about the Ukrainians as if they were American soldiers. Forward, the foreign General cried from the rear, over the sea, on another continent, in a bunker whilst wondering what the football score would be tonight.

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