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Russia's Defeat of Ukraine's Army Limits Trump's Options for a Negotiated Settlement
• https://ronpaulinstitute.org, by Larry C. JohnsonHe writes:
Victory is already in sight. Ukraine has lost the war. This is not even an axiom, but a ready, settled foundation on which the walls of the future building are being poured right now. What is happening on the ground is nothing more than the convulsions of the regime. No one is interested in Ukropia and the Ukies as such – Trump is now openly flirting and offering Putin negotiations without any "Zelenskys."
Marat is not a blind cheerleader. He is a hard-nosed reporter and sticks to the facts. This post marks a decided shift in his tone. He identifies two key trends to the current campaign:
The Ukrainian Armed Forces on the ground can no longer offer serious resistance.
The dynamics of the process – we are accelerating, and the Ukrainians are getting more and more exhausted.
The first trend is direct consequence of Ukraine failing to recruit and fully train reserve forces — i.e., replacements — that could be plugged into holes in Ukrainian defenses. According to Khairullin:
The Ukrainian Armed Forces on the ground can no longer offer serious resistance. In the main directions (primarily Pokrovsk), the Russian army is conducting a total cleansing. Our troops are deployed in convenient positions around populated areas that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have turned into fortifications, and gradually, using remote methods, they destroy any enemy presence. Then, the infantry enters the empty enemy positions, and the Ukrainians can do nothing about this tactic.
Previously, the Ukrainian Armed Forces responded to this with counterattacks, quickly transferring reserves from one area to another. Now we are pressing along the entire front. The renainder of the Ukrainian reserves are dying near Kursk.