The US is helping Ukraine prepare for a potential counteroffensive against Russian forces as the Biden administration wants Kyiv to retake more territory in the coming months.
According to The New York Times, senior US generals at the headquarters of US Army Europe and Africa in Germany hosted Ukrainian military officials for tabletop war games exercises, demonstrating Washington’s intimate involvement in the war.
The drills are meant to help Ukrainian officials strategize what their next move on the battlefield could be. After a wargaming session on Thursday, Gen. Christopher G. Cavoli, the supreme allied commander in Europe, said the US would continue to help Ukraine’s “adaptability” and said the US and NATO “can keep going as long as necessary.”
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley also attended the Thursday session, and described the purpose of the drills. “The Ukrainians are moving things around on these maps to determine what is their best course of action, and they determine the advantages and disadvantages of the risks associated,” he said.
The exercises come as Russian forces are closing in on the Donestk city of Bakhmut, where Ukrainian officials have hinted they might withdraw from soon as they are facing heavy casualties. US officials speaking to the Times said Ukraine was considering launching a counteroffensive in the eastern Donbas region.
Ukrainian forces could also try to mount a southern offensive, an idea US officials seem to favor. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said in January that cutting off the land bridge Russia has established from Crimea to the Russian mainland could be a “realistic goal for this year.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said his forces are preparing an attack on Crimea, but Russia still controls a significant portion of territory to the north of the peninsula. But that hasn’t deterred US officials from declaring their support for Ukrainian attacks on Crimea, which could risk a major escalation of the war.
While the US is prepping Ukraine for a counteroffensive, Russia has been building up its forces for months after mobilizing 300,000 fresh troops, and Moscow could be planning to launch a major offensive of its own.
It will be interesting 2C just what sort of “offensive” that Ukies R able to to cum up with after Bahkmut and their 1 to 10 deficiency in artillary & rout
Neocons understand that after investing so much in Ukrainian neo-Nazi project and loosing there completely, their rating will plummet down. So this summer is going to be hot, and, perhaps, not only in Ukraine.
If Iraq didn’t end them nothing will. The us empire is in decline and that’s why it will continue to reward failures.
And there lies the Elephant in the room Ukraine military dosen`t have the man power to hold the line for any length of time , TBH i think the US is putting boots on the ground with plausible deniability built in , standard procedure for the Pentagon .
There are a lot of poles. They are involved but not so much as they could. Russia is also employing much less troops than some people expected. Last autumn, when Russia finished the mobilization, they asked Putin if that is enough. Putin said that is enough for awhile.
It’s nice of Zelensky to always telegraph his moves, so Russia knows when to move its troops to the other side of a river from which they can bomb the Ukrainians to bits. As they have done in Kherson and Kharkov, depriving Kiev of troops that could have been used in Bakhmut, the lynchpin in their hold on eastern Donbass. Bakhmut is now falling.
This “spring offensive” is meaningless if their line in western Donbass is crumbling. You HOLD THE LINE first, before you go off do something else. If they lose the “Zelensky line” it’s flat land all the way to the Dniepr. It’s “tank land” as it’s called, perfect for Russia.
The spring offensive is a demand from Washington. Biden demands a victory. The Ukrainians were reluctant, but Washington has insisted. The widely telegraphed dream is to “cut the Russian territory in half” by going to the ocean. Problem: This area has been reinforced for half a year, preparing for that. Trenches with bunkers, several lines of dragon’s teeth and tank mines. You can’t get through.
According to British media, Ukrainian artillery in Bakhmut is now only 10% of Russian artillery. How will Ukraine have the artillery needed to break several lines of defenses to get to the sea? They don’t.
“According to the NY Times” … the Times is a wholly owned subsidiary of MICIMATT. Their pronouncements on any issue related to war and peace should be treated as pure propaganda.
Several days ago, the NYT ran a piece that I read as defense for Norfolk Southern. The NYT is a POS.
Propaganda for the next election is all they know. They are people without any integrity, war criminals really.
I will say it again unless the US puts boots on the ground Ukraine can`t win , it`s foot soldiers who win wars and the Ukraine is running out of them fast , Putin will play the long game time is on his side and just as the NATO had it`s ass kicked in Afghanistan after 20 years of conflict the same thing will happen in Ukraine unless the people say we have had enough and tell the yanks to pack up their tents and GO.
The European people must support the Ukrainian people, they have started to tell the Amis to go home, it started rolling down hill to become an avalanche, the sooner the better. NATO is cracking and starting to break already.
USA loves war, until it comes to its own shores. Purge the DC GHOULS!!
“US Helps Ukrainians Prepare for Counteroffensive”
Senior US generals prep Ukraine officials for ‘Operation Meat Grinder II – Rise of the 16-year-old Batallions’
“War games” sounds like fun, except it’s not really “games” if hundreds of thousands are dying. One thing I can recommend based on my very limited knowledge. Don’t go asking for advice from Foghorn Leghorn. (Sarcasm alert)
I guess it’s not really delusional psychosis until the checks bounce.
This sort of foolishness is what comes of indulging fantasy “facts” about Ukraine’s casualties and operations.
We have fooled only ourselves. Reality is, and it is coming for us.
The US involvement is completely off the charts. Operators like Daniel Swift are littering the battlefields.
Complete C5ISR support: https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/usnato-isr-addendum-deep-dive-into
They not only started this war in 2014 they have been literally running this war 24/7 since and Russia is trying to keep playing stupid for humanity’s sake. Look up Operation Aerodynamic CIA 1947. Operation Paperclip. Look up Standard Oil selling oil to Germany until February 1945. The only reason the deliveries stopped was loss of the last port they could deliver to.
This is all academic at this point. It’s always been clear who the aggressor is.
You’re absolutely right, but this criminality is unique in the world so far. This grand theft to save Capitalism involves inching nearer and nearer the edge for the entirety of the species. WW I-II involved only @ what ? 90M ? So, hopefully, Strangelove’s unlovely daughter’s mad plan for Crimea is bluff …! She has the idea (historically correct) that Russian piety would, as it has in the past, stop short of the ultimate outrage against God; that, sure, Washington would infallibly lose Ramstein immediately, and very likely Western Europe, but somewhere along the critical strategic chain of command the Russian soul would balk at The Big Match … not just, as in the past, Capitalism v Civilization, but, the ontological showdown, Capitalism v Being.
It’s not so much an ontology as it is an existential crisis for American and Western European hegemony. The developing world now sees other options and have been well aware that the collective “west” has been selling them models who do not promote actual growth or development. Indeed, they do quite the opposite. The war in Ukraine has literally sprung up a wall in middle of the busy plunder highway that has existed for centuries. They’re panicked at the highest levels and there is no consensus on how to proceed.
This is why you have Borrell making jaw droppingly arrogant and stupid statements while Macron gets humiliated repeatedly: https://www.bitchute.com/video/sd1bVSHfh9n4/
The reason we in the west have trouble wrapping our heads around this is the propaganda we’re fed from cradle to grave. They have you investing all your time and energy chasing the Nemesis/Celebrity/Cult of Personality effect rather than gaining an understanding of the institutions which actually wield the power. In essence, all problems are Hitler and if we kill him, it will be all right.
Clearly this war threatens the continued existence of NATO, which would be a good thing; but, It becomes ontological when nukes are factored in.
Arman Hammer did business with the Soviet Union, much to his credit. Yes, that evil empire.
Wikipedia:
1973: During détente in July 1972, Armand Hammer negotiated a twenty-year agreement with Brezhnev of the Soviet Union that was signed by Hammer in April 1973 in which the Hammer-controlled firms Occidental Petroleum and Tower International would export to the Soviet Union phosphate, which Occidental mined in northern Florida, in return for the Soviet Union exporting from Odessa and Ventspils through Hammer’s firms natural gas that would be converted into ammonia, potash, and urea.[12][13]
The total value of this trade was estimated at $20 billion. Theconstruction of Soviet port facilities, designed by Hammer’s firms, waspartially financed by the Export-Import Bank as endorsed by Nixon.[14][13]
One could call it realpolitik.
“the Biden administration wants Kyiv to retake more territory in the coming months.” But of course. Twice, the Biden administration shot down opportunities for peace. That means victor at an Ukraine price, while prepping for war against China (U.S. general states we will be at war with China by 2025).
Rewritten, “The U.S. wants Ukraine to have more of its soldiers killed”.
They have the nerve to tell China they aren’t allowed to help Russia. All part of that “rules based order” .
Meanwhile Americans are arming Taiwan.
Russian Defence Military reported that up to 45 Ukrainian personnel, two armoured fighting vehicles, and three pickups were destroyed as a result of the attacks of Russian artillery and aviation near the villages of Timkovka and Novosyolovskoye in the Kupyansk region.
The AFU lost 160 servicemen one tank, three infantry fighting vehicles, five armoured fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, and one fighting vehicle equipped with Grad MLRS, as a result of the Russian military operations near Yampolovka and Chervonaya Dibrova in the Krasny Liman region.
Up to 225 Ukrainian personnel, five infantry fighting vehicles, nine armoured fighting vehicles, five pickups, four motor vehicles, one Uragan MLRS, and one D-30 howitzer were destroyed by Russian forces on the Donetsk front lines. An ordnance depot of 55th Artillery Brigade of the AFU, and a U.S.-made AN/TPQ-37 counterbattery warfare radar were destroyed near Dachnoye and Chasov Yar in the DPR respectively.
Up to 65 personnel, two armoured fighting vehicles, two pickups, as well as the fighting vehicles equipped with Uragan and Grad MLRS were destroyed by Russian artillery near Ugledar, Prechistovka, and Novosyolka in the DPR.
In Kherson direction, three more Ukrainian armoured fighting vehicles, eight motor vehicles, and one Akatsiya self-propelled howitzer were destroyed by Russian artillery.
The problem is — we have a very determined group of people in this country that push everyone every day a little harder to get involved in the war against Russia. It is their obsession. Those people need to be reigned in and sobered up, If not, their zealotism will have us all killed.
It’s too bad that the people responsible for the Ukraine war cannot be the ones to fight and die.
Or st lesr pay special assessment type of taxes. People should have an option how to finance optional wars. Let our money do the voting!
The US government is the most sadistic government I know of. Biden acts as if he is encouraging Zelensky to withdraw Ukrainian forces while the American generals are planning to increase resistance on the Bakhmut front.
Who is in charge here? It is the MIC were the generals will retire to sit on the board of directors with million $$$ salaries.
Greedy, deranged and sadistic characterless criminal people are in charge of the nations government. That is not what I voted for and non of my friends did.
Biden, Zelensky and the whole administration are traitors, selling their country for money, killing their young men in slaughterhouse battles and women and children too.
The NATO generals are worse than Hitler’s generals. The American/NATO generals could resign and would if they had decency and a conscience.
They are war criminals, that includes Milley. They have millions of lives on their conscience and still they keep on killing other peoples children in the meatgrinder they call front lines.
They should be chained together and sat out on the frontline with the children they send out to be killed. Let them suffer the consequences of their criminal, sadistic minds.
Zelensky was so worried about the war last year, he and his wife took time off for a session with Vogue. Pretty depraved.
And Mrs. Zelensky went on a $40,000 shopping spree when she was in Paris begging for more money for Ukraine.
My contempt for Biden’s “presidency” increases by leaps and bounds every single day. Worst presidency of my lifetime by far.
AFAICS, there is little hope that America will admit to having failed at this latest of many attempts to destabilize Russia for a very simple reason: Americans cannot lose. Losing is forbidden. So we’re stuck with this bullshite until the planet has heated up beyond recovery suitable for human habitation or until the planet is cooled off as a result of a nuclear winter. Then we shall all be able to declare our pyrrhic victory over intelligence and compassion and hand the baton to whatever is left crawling on our planet.
To move out of Bakhmut or to move supplies in one has to cross a 10 kilometer long corridor which is only 6 kilometer wide and completely covered by Russian artillery and ground fire.
The road bridge was blown up in Khromove settlement, west of Bakhmut. The only remaining road from/to Bakhmut is through the fields and Ivanivske.
The results of attempts to run that gauntlet can be read in the Russian Defense Ministry’s daily report. Refer below.
Does the Russian Defense Ministry’s daily report include Prigozhin’s complaint that unless he gets some ammunition the Russian forces attacking Bakhmut will be “screwed?”
No. The Russian MOD does not include Wagner Group. The Donbass Battalion are providing artillery for the combined Russian/Wagner attack in Bahkmut.
No American actually wants this (or the planned war with China), except the politicians and those who profit from war and destruction.
Send Biden to the front line. He can wander around and sniff soldiers while he craps his diaper. Maybe he can shake hands with the ghosts of dead soldiers.
The US Govt really stepped in shit when they started this moving NATO forces closer to Russia and overthrowing an elected Govt.What did they think was going to happen? The.idea that Putin would not react is insane.Now it is a meatgrinder and the.world lives in fear of escalation.The only people happy about this situation is the MIC who are creaming their jeans over gigantic profits from killing Russians.The loss of their Empire has the US quaking in their boots..