Senior Pentagon officials told lawmakers in the House Armed Services Committee last week in a classified briefing that Ukraine is unlikely to retake Crimea from Russia, POLITICO reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the briefing.
The briefing reflects other recent reporting that said US officials don’t think Ukraine has the capability to take the peninsula, which Russia has controlled since 2014. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said back in November that the probability of Ukraine kicking Russia out of the territory it captured since last February and Crimea is “not high.”
Milley reiterated this point on January 20. “I still maintain that for this year it would be very, very difficult to militarily eject the Russian forces from all –– every inch of Ukraine and occupied –– or Russian-occupied Ukraine,” he said.
According to the POLITICO report, the Ukrainian government was “furious” with Milley’s comments. Ukrainian officials maintain that kicking Russia out of Crimea is still one of their war goals, although Ukraine is beginning to lose more territory in its battle against Russian forces in the east.
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL), the head of the House Armed Services Committee, declined to discuss the contents of the briefing his panel received on Crimea but signaled the US might be looking to wind the war down.
According to POLITICO, Rogers said the war needs to “end this summer” and said the US must rapidly supply Kyiv for a coming offensive. He also indicated the US might try to put pressure on the government of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to have a more realistic idea of victory and said that “Russia is never going to quit and give up Crimea.”
“What is doable? And I don’t think that that’s agreed upon yet. So I think that there’s going to have to be some pressure from our government and NATO leaders with Zelensky about what does victory look like,” Rogers added. “And I think that’s going to help us more than anything be able to drive Putin and Zelensky to the table to end this thing this summer.”
But a lot could happen between now and the summer, and as the US and its allies continue to announce major escalations of military aid, a direct clash between NATO and Russia becomes more likely.
No sh!t, Sherlock…
No sh!t, Sherlock…
No sh!t, Sherlock…
Crimea has been part of Russia since 1783 and will remain so period!
“Ottoman Empire. Russia conquered Crimea in 1783 under Catherine the Great. For over three centuries previously, Crimea had been a state ruled by the Crimean Tatars, subject to the Ottoman Empire, who had used the region as a base for their sizeable slave trade with the Ottoman Empire.”
Prior to 1783 it was used as a hub for Russian slaves taken and sold to Turkey.
In 1954, Soviet leader and ethnic Ukrainian Nikita Khrushchev gave Ukraine a gift: Crimea. The citizens of Crimea were and have remained majority Russian Slavic to this day.
Of course, let’s not let reality, demographics, history, and logic entire the delusional rantings of Zelensky and Joey Biden!
To sum up:
According to Mike Rogers , the war “must end this summer” through the US rapidly supplying Kyiv for a coming offensive.
In other words, the fire must be brought down this summer by means of rapid supply of petrol into it.
Need we know more about the breathtakingly spectacular intellectual abilities of Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL), the head of the House Armed Services Committee ..
“…the breathtakingly spectacular intellectual abilities of Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL)…” I like it. Here’s Orwell’s attempt at describing a similar man: “…man of paralysing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms — one of those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even than on the Thought Police, the stability of the Party depended.” Imagine the books he would have written, if Orwell met Joe, Kamala, Olaf, or Annalena.
Yeeeeeees ..
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Milley is like the least drunk person at a rager where his relative sobriety makes him a clown to all the other sh*t faced participants. But he’s also still pretty wasted.
That is an excellent and most accurate assessment! I love it. Keep writing!
“where his relative sobriety makes him a clown to all the other sh*t faced participants.”
in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is insane
The current government in Kiev can’t “retake” Crimea because it
never had control of it in the first place, besides which a vastly
inferior military force can’t take a large and heavily defended
territory from a vastly superior force, attacking across a narrow land
bridge no less, and it says everything you need to know about western
credibility that this preposterous notion is referred to as “difficult”.
Absolutely.
The US itself has a fantasy about “victory” both in what it might attain and in likelihood.
Actually the more likely outcome is a crushing defeat of NATO, and the consequences would be far-reaching not just for relations with China but for relations with the whole world including the position of the dollar and the US economy.
Every time when a nation X tried to get the Crimea away from nation Y it was either a failure or was only achieved with enormous costs.
To keep the Crimean the Russians will fight like devils. The Ukraine cannot recapture the peninsula by itself because the Ukrainian offensive will not be a surprise. It will have to come across the Perekop. Naval landings will be suicide attacks.
id say the poles are more likely to shift by 4PM today…
If anything, this will demoralize NATO and US military after Russia bundles up Ukraine.
the pentagon has already received $900 billion for the fiscal year 2023.
edit) my bad, here is the real deal = In FY 2023, the Department of Defense (DOD) had $1.90 Trillion distributed among its 6 sub-components.
https://kingworldnews.com/chess-master-putin-is-moving-closer-to-destroying-the-us-dollar/
Chess Master Putin Is Moving Closer To Destroying The US Dollar. Authored by Alasdair Macleod.
No sh*t. Amazing calculation.
Pentagon Tells Lawmakers Ukraine Unlikely to Take Moscow
Russia must be in awe over our juvenile, immature babble.
The regime in Washington seems to live in its own fantasy. Anticipating NATO getting into the battle, Russia will just increase mobilization. Without breaking a sweat it can raise mobilization to 3 million out of 35 milion potential. Not only that it is equipoed but for the longest time now coproduction with China is endlessms. There ade tbousands factory floors in China, and joint production well oiled out for at leadt two decades.
Time to sober up.
Russia will not allow wars to be fought on its territory. Insm sure some juvenilies in DC think a good old fashioned bust up would make us victorious. Llittle do they know about wars.
So, they want to LIBERATE Crimea, Dinetsk, Kughansk, Zaporozhie and Kherson. Or be the CONQUERORS?
Zelenski wants the land — but not the people, Be must be confused. He is not in Israel when such goas are legitimate. And unlike Arabs in the region who observe the gradual elimination of Palestinians and expansion of immigrant settlers in their land —- Russia was not amused, and targetted Russians — not Palestinians. So Zelenski wants Crimea , but not its Rusdian population? The same populace whose ancestors defended that land throughout centuries?
Now if Zelenski implemented Minsk giving these people equal rights as citizens — this could have bern a different story.
But he did not. Never intended to. Russia was told that — loud and clear. So, what claims does he have to the land? What makes him this special?
And our military actually talk about it with straight face?