dr Cassandra Nojdh skrev: ↑fredag 16 augusti 2024 15:48
Det spekuleras oerhört mycket kring detta nu, och dras ännu fler slutsatser på lösa grunder...................
Från D. Trumps perspektiv är ju detta ytterligare ett tecken på att Biden är en svag president (Trump har använt värre omdömen än så). Själv anser ju Trump att ingendera av ovanstående krig skulle brutit ut om han varit president. Samtidigt vill republikanerna minska på USA:s engagemang runt om i världen. Det hänger ihop ganska dåligt, men det gäller ju det mesta som sägs därifrån.
Ukraine Defies the U.S. to Launch a Showy Offensive Into Russia
Tablet Magazine skrev:The Ukrainians had planned this type of operation for a long time—reports of Kyiv’s plots to launch incursions into Russia go back to early 2023. Tellingly, however, the decision to proceed came exactly a week after Israel had carried out a pair of high-profile assassinations deep in enemy territory. On July 31, the Israelis took out Hamas’ former chief Ismail Haniyeh in a Tehran guesthouse during the inauguration ceremony of the new Iranian president. The day before, they had eliminated the top Hezbollah military commander, Fuad Shukr, in the heart of the group’s stronghold in Beirut.
Kyiv observed carefully how Israel conducted its strikes immediately after Prime Minister Netanyahu returned from a triumphant speech before the U.S. Congress. In fact, earlier this week the chair of the Ukrainian Parliamentary Committee on National Security and Defense, Roman Kostenko, explicitly referenced the Israeli example in a televised interview. “So Israel announced that they would take the advice of their partners very seriously but would afterward make their own decisions in the best interest of their own national security. I think that we can simply mirror that approach in our own case.”
There are limits to the analogy with Israel, which is fighting a much weaker terror group in an infinitely smaller territory the borders of which Jerusalem controls entirely. Nevertheless, Ukraine seeks to leverage the optics of turning the tables on the Russians to force the Americans to back a fait accompli on the battlefield. While the motivation behind the Ukrainian decision is clear, less so is its ultimate objective. It is far too early to draw serious assessments of Ukraine’s battlefield successes. Caught off guard, the Russians are currently on their back foot. But they may very well regroup, counterattack and drive out the Ukrainian forces. Should the Russians succeed in recapturing the entirety of the occupied Russian territory, before the Ukrainians are able to leverage their gains, the Ukrainian gamble could prove to have been a costly waste of scarce resources and manpower. It is also possible that this assault is merely a preamble or diversion for another forthcoming strike in a different theater of operations.
Tja, Bibi stakade ut denna väg, och Ukraina
lärde sig snabbt:
Ukrainska Pravda skrev:"Just a few months ago, upon hearing that we were planning such an operation in Kursk Oblast, many representatives of the international community would have said that it was unrealistic and it crossed Russia’s main red line.
This is why nobody had been informed about our preparations. Now the real success speaks for itself: our active defensive actions on the other side of the border and Putin’s inability to protect his territory from our defensive actions of this kind are very telling."
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"When our Ukrainian defenders act like this, decisively and bravely, and when the operation is indeed well-prepared, Putin has no choice. And now the world sees that it is realistic, that it really works. Not only in the temporarily occupied territory of our country but in the territory of Russia as well. The world sees that everything in this war depends only on courage – our courage, and the courage of our partners."
Lösningen är att ställa Biden-administrationen inför fullbordat faktum!
dr Cassandra Nojdh skrev: ↑måndag 19 augusti 2024 6:53
Offensiver är alltid chansartade, oavsett hur väl förberedda de än anses vara. Dessutom är det inte alltid så lätt att bedöma det faktiska utfallet ("går bättre än väntat") under pågående förlopp.
“Space Infantry” Thrown on the Defense of the Kursk Oblast
Important Stories skrev:Due to personnel shortages in the Russian ground forces, the AFU's offensive in Kursk Oblast is being mirrored by a temporary motorized rifle regiment of the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS), which was specially assembled from VKS personnel from all over Russia.
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According to our interlocutor, the unit included members of the security and material support companies, engineers, mechanics and a small number of officers from the flying staff. They were assigned to the infantry from the airfields Ukrainka in the Altai Krai, Belaya in the Irkutsk Oblast, and Engels in the Saratov Oblast. All of these airbases are home to Tu-22M or Tu-95 heavy bombers, from which they launch missiles at Ukrainian cities.
In addition, soldiers from one of Russia's cosmodromes have been written off as infantry, as well as personnel from the VKS special depots and Voronezh radar stations. These stations are put up along Russia's borders for early warning of strikes by cruise and ballistic missiles, including nuclear-tipped ones. How and when the shortage of valuable specialists and guards at the VKS facilities will be filled is unknown, our source notes. According to him, more than 100 highly qualified technicians are needed for normal operation of the Voronezh-type radars.
Absolut, men även motparten tvingas ta stora risker. Titta bara på vilka som skickas till fronten i Kursk-området!
Enceladus skrev: ↑måndag 19 augusti 2024 19:59
Vidare tycks Ukrainas flygvapen använda flygbomber obehindrat i Kursk-området. Inte konstigt att Ukraina avancerar oavbrutet:
Ryssarna försökte bygga en
andra pontonbro över floden Sejm, men det satte Ukraina stopp för
nästan omedelbart:
OSINTtechnical skrev:Russian forces constructed another pontoon bridge over the Seym River in Kursk oblast.
Ukrainian forces destroyed it in less than 48 hours.