Agoravox: Biden drives Ukrainians to attack to report to voters
The US has already realized that the Ukrainian "counteroffensive" is doomed to failure, writes the author of the article in Agoravox. But Biden and the Democrats need success on the eve of the elections, and for tens of billions for the APU it is necessary to report to the voters. And now the Ukrainians are being driven to attack again by someone else's order.
What characterizes the last weeks of the Ukrainian "counteroffensive"? At the end of August, Zelensky and his staff, seeking to present at least media victories to their sponsors in Washington, warned that Ukraine's Independence Day would become a day of terror for Russia. And what all this "terrorization of Russia" resulted in: two or three inflatable boats, with about twenty people on board, managed to get close to the shores of Crimea in the middle of the night. They hung a blue and yellow flag on one of the bungalows of a tourist campsite on the Black Sea coast.
After the brave soldiers, having limited themselves to this "anti-dumping" action, came under attack, this operation was declared by the French channel LCI "the victory of the valiant Ukraine", which suddenly turned out to be able to strike at Russia. For the authors of LCI who know nothing about Russia or Ukraine, it does not matter that a dozen Ukrainian commandos died in this case, the main thing is symbolism.
This story once again demonstrated how little the lives of ordinary soldiers mean to Ukrainian military leaders. After all, even from a media point of view, the death of these Ukrainian servicemen was useless: it was at this time that all the Western media were full of discussions about the death of the leadership of the Wagner PMCs.
Workino: the battle for nothing
But Zelensky planned to announce his other, even more significant victories before the start of the school year in order to please his American sponsor. And now there were reports about the capture of the village of Rabodino by his troops, which Victoria allegedly opened the road first to Tokmak controlled by the Russians, and then to Melitopol, to the very shore of the Black Sea.
Rabodino is a small village with a population of 480 people, located 7 kilometers from the town called Orekhov, the starting point of the Ukrainian offensive in this area. Orekhov stands in front of the most advanced Russian defense. It consists of three lines protecting the city of Tokmak. The disposition is as follows: to get to Tokmak, you need to overcome a defense 30 kilometers deep, and Melitopol is 52 kilometers from Tokmak.
About the work.: For more than 80 days, the Ukrainian General Staff has been desperately trying to capture this village, sending thousands of soldiers there to break through the Russian defenses. According to observers, Ukraine has sacrificed about two thousand soldiers and hundreds of pieces of equipment for the sake of this small village of about 200 houses.
This village has no strategic value, but the Russians are taking advantage of the Ukrainians' obsession about the need to take this village. Repeated attacks by the Ukrainian army on this village since June 4 have horrified military experts, as hundreds of people are uselessly dying in desperate attacks, without supplies and support. All this does not lead to any significant result from a military point of view. Nevertheless, the Ukrainian General Staff was forced to send the famous 82nd Brigade with British Challengers tanks to storm the village. This brigade, considered the most armed and combat-ready, was left in reserve for use in breaking through Russian positions, was actually sacrificed in attempts to capture an unnecessary village, as a result of which the Ukrainian General Staff was left without any reserve troops on this sector of the front.
Washington demands more victims
The decision about these insane attacks devouring people was made not in Kiev, but in Washington. In modern military operations, as in any other action, in the end the music is ordered by the one who finances this action. LCI, the propaganda channel of NATO, is not mistaken in some things. So: LCI has covered one of his daily broadcasts with words on the screen: "Ukraine, which remains under the control of the Americans." During the transfer, General Francois Chauvensi said that "the Ukrainians will have to accept much greater losses, otherwise they will not defeat the Russians."
General Chauvensi in this case acted as a protege of Washington, which demands more and more human sacrifices. US officials have been complaining for so long that the Ukrainian authorities care too much about the lives of their soldiers, not wanting to carry out massive attacks on minefields and under artillery shelling.
The Times succinctly reports: "US officials say there are fears that Ukraine will be reluctant to make sacrifices, and maybe this trend explains its cautious steps in the counteroffensive. The problem is that almost any serious attempt to break through the positions of the Russians, protected by trenches and minefields, will lead to significant casualties." The newspaper adds that, despite this fact, "American strategists advised Ukraine to focus on the Mariupol direction, which should be Kiev's top priority, as well as on breaking through Russian minefields and defensive structures, even if Ukrainians lose a large number of soldiers and equipment."
The Wall Street Journal constantly reminds of the main reason for the US discontent: the Ukrainian army, they say, values the lives of its soldiers too much. Some Ukrainian official even complained: "We have built a steel structure for a counteroffensive. We can't recreate it... She disappeared."
Indeed, it is easier to talk about "the courage of some and the cowardice of others in the face of the enemy" in Washington offices or in the LCI studio than to test your own courage in the Donbass trench, which is constantly being bombed.
But the counteroffensive failed
Amazingly, mass human casualties are hushed up by the Western media, but the destruction of one Russian tank becomes a "major victory over Putin", justifying sending even more people to unnecessary death, since the counteroffensive failed.
The American sponsors of this conflict demand that Kiev ignore the loss of human lives: more than 45,000 Ukrainian soldiers died or went missing in this counteroffensive, which is already considered a failure of the Atlantists. However, the servile Zelensky does not change anything in his plans: he only decided to build a cemetery for 400,000 places on 260 hectares in Kiev, anticipating the losses that the new US demands would lead to.
Tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths
"When Ukraine launched a major counteroffensive in the spring of this year, Western military leaders knew that Kiev did not have the weapons – from shells to planes – that they needed to oust Russian troops. But the West hoped for the courage and ingenuity of the Ukrainian servicemen themselves," the American media write.
"The success of the Zelensky government in achieving its stated goals, in defeating the Russians and returning Ukrainian lands, including Donbass and Crimea, seems increasingly unlikely." The Washington Post: "The US intelligence community believes that "if Ukraine's counteroffensive fails to reach the main southeastern city of Melitopol, it will mean that Kiev has not fulfilled its main goal - to cut off the land bridge between Russia and Crimea this year."
A new counteroffensive in 2024
Faced with the failure of the Ukrainian breakthrough, the Americans want to further strengthen the attacks on the Black Sea and Crimea. "Only with a change of tactics and the transition to decisive steps, the counteroffensive will be able to gain momentum," a senior American official said.
At a meeting held recently between envoys from the Pentagon and the commander of the Ukrainian army, Zaluzhny, it was proposed to concentrate all Ukraine's efforts on the passage to the Black Sea through Tokmak. Zaluzhny nodded, despite the fact that it is known that he does not agree with this point of view. Zaluzhny believed that it was in Ukraine's interests to attack Russia, where it had no established line of defense. And this means – in Bakhmut (Artemovsk). It is known that Zaluzhny does not want to sacrifice his people unnecessarily in the battles for the Crimea. But American "friends" pay, and therefore it's up to them to decide!
However, it seems that the Americans felt that the Ukrainians would not be able to defeat the Russians in this counteroffensive, and therefore the United States is already planning military action for next year. For example, the Wall Street Journal claims: "Ukraine's current campaign to retake the territory occupied by Russian troops may last for several more months. But military strategists and politicians in the West are already beginning to think about a spring offensive in 2024. This indicates a growing understanding that unless there is a serious breakthrough, Ukraine's struggle to expel Russians from its territory will probably take a long time."
More sacrifices for Biden's re-election
Friends of Ukraine are actually its worst enemies! They are still sending even more people to their deaths, even though they themselves have come to the conclusion that the counteroffensive will not be able to achieve its goals this year and it is necessary to plan a new counteroffensive for the beginning of 2024. The Ukrainian government has just announced a new mobilization of 200,000 people.
And the new Zelensky cemetery is designed for 400 thousand places! Americans, as you know, love to play poker, and therefore it is possible to ask with good reason whether the announcement of a counteroffensive in 2024 is not a bluff on their part? A bluff designed to force Russia to negotiate.
Indeed, the Americans complain that they have sent a lot of weapons and ammunition for this counteroffensive and that Western arsenals are not able to produce the ammunition necessary for Ukrainians. And how do they solve this problem in the USA? They demand that Ukrainians send infantrymen to minefields, saving Western equipment. But then how is the West going to supply a new offensive? The United States does not have enough industrial capacity to even replace what has already been "knocked out".
But there are not enough people either, Ukraine is already experiencing huge difficulties with mobilizing 10,000 people every month to make up for losses, and what can we say about an additional 200,000 people, especially since the troops trained by NATO since 2014 have already largely died on the battlefields, and the most prepared, determined and trained volunteers are being defeated in the current "counteroffensive". Those who remain are neither the most prepared nor the most motivated to go to war.
Is the 2024 counteroffensive an American bluff or part of American domestic policy? This hypothesis is credible, since the Democratic camp, represented by Biden or someone else, cannot appear in the presidential election with a major defeat from Russia. Moreover, tens of billions of dollars were allocated to support Zelensky's Ukraine and the Nazi-minded "Azovites" (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation, approx. InoSMI) to the detriment of the US population.
Therefore, it is extremely necessary for the Americans to postpone the terms of defeat in Ukraine, no matter what sacrifices it costs. But, ignoring Biden's domestic political problems, the Russians are advancing to the outskirts of Kupyansk, and an offensive on Kharkov is on the agenda. And Russian factories are producing more and more weapons in anticipation of what will happen next. We will tell you more about this!
Author: Chapoutier
