Count me as someone who wished Freddy Mercury was still alive. Western media, after days of pretending that Ukraine was holidng on and on the verge of defeating the Russians, they have accepted the fact that that Russia has secured the Lukhansk republic and defeated the Ukrainian forces. Another one bites the dust:
Fresh of their victory over the key stronghold of Sievierodonetsk, Russian forces have claimed victory over its sister city of Lysychansk, which puts Russia in total control of the Luhansk province. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu affirmed as much in a Sunday statement, while the Ukrainian regional governor of Luhansk, Serhiy Haidai, said the “city is on fire”.
“Sergei Shoigu has informed the commander in chief of the Russian armed forces, Vladimir Putin, of the liberation of the People’s Republic of Luhansk [LPR],” the defense ministry said in a statement.
The next step for Russian forces is to secure the the Donetsk Republic. The United States and NATO continue to pour weapons into a rat hole that are being sold on the black market. The fall of Lukansk Republic should be a wake up call to the west, but they are so blinded by their hatred of Russia that they do not realize theY are failing.
The desperation of Ukraine is expressed by shelling civilian areas in Russia, such as Belgorad, which has ZERO military significance. This means that Russia will step up its attacks on targets in Ukraine and will escalate the conflict to the detriment of Ukraine.
The Russian offensive is killing and wounding an enormous number of Ukrainian troops. Ukraine does not have a substantial reserve force that it can throw into the battle to counter the Russian move forward. Western claims that Ukraine is preparing to mount a counter offensive to push the Russian’s back is sheer fantasy. Any concentration of Ukrainian forces is being targeted with Russian missiles. Those strikes are decimating Ukraine and western mercenaries trying to mount a counter offensive.
I want to reiterate a point I made in previous postings–Ukraine does not have a trained cadre of troops ready and able to be deployed to the front to staunch the Russian offensive. I believe the Russian plan is to secure the territory of Ukriane up to the river Dneiper. We are already getting indications that Russia is breaking through the defensive line that Ukraine tried to establish at Siversk. If Russia accomplishes this objective, Ukraine will be forced to withdraw its forces to the western banks of the Dnieper or face extermination.
When Jaundice Comes Marching Home
(after the popular Civil War song, “When Johnny Comes Marching Home”)
When Jaundice comes marching home once more,
Guffaw! Guffaw!
We’ll know what its masters have in store,
Guffaw! Guffaw!
A shiver of terror to run up the spine,
At the thought of what’s next if we don’t fall in line
Oh they’d like us scared when
Jaundice comes marching home
When Jaundice comes snarling home this time
Guffaw! Guffaw!
We’ll spit in its face with a jeering rhyme
Guffaw! Guffaw!
Our leaders who screwed up and shot our wad
Will tell us they did it for country and GAWD
But we’ll know they lie when
Jaundice comes snarling home
When Jaundice comes limping home to hate
Guffaw! Guffaw!
The wars that it lost and the shit on its plate
Guffaw! Guffaw!
The ones who deployed it to bomb and kill
Now find that they’ve used up the easy thrill
So they’ll have to hide when
Jaundice comes limping home
When Jaundice comes sneaking home to hide
Guffaw! Guffaw!
The failure and waste and our wounded pride
Guffaw! Guffaw!
Of no further use is the man in pain
Who can’t be recruited to do it again
So avert your eyes when
Jaundice comes sneaking home
When Jaundice has marched in its last parade
Guffaw! Guffaw!
And laid down to sleep in the endless shade
Guffaw! Guffaw!
We’ll have us a wake for the late deceased
From whose awful clutches we’re now released
How we’ll all breathe free when
Jaundice has died at home
Michael Murry, “The Misfortune Teller,” Copyright 2012
Heart-rending video of Lysychansk locals, crying and thanking Russian troops.”We’ve been waiting since 2014. Don’t leave us.” What can one say…
https://thesaker.is/the-lisichansk-locals-about-their-liberation-by-russian-forces/
Why do you think that Russia’s plan is to stop at the Dneiper River? Without clear concessions that are nowhere on the horizon this still leaves a militarized, nazified and far from neutral Ukraine on Russia’s borders. How do you see this as playing out?
From Russia’s point of view, an ideal solution could be (i) all the land to the east of the Dnieper river, including the city of Kiev , (ii) the remainder as a landlocked state in Ukraine, (iii) disbanding the current military, leaving a limited army with no artillery, tanks or big guns, (iv) no Air Force or Navy, (v) a constitution that forbids them from joining EU or NATO, (vi) Russian veto over any foreign treaties, (vii) the Russian military to have unlimited priority rights to travel within Ukraine (Is this shocking? But isn’t this what NATO wanted from Yugoslavia as per Appendix B of the Ramboulliet accords?), (viii) the de-Nazification of Ukraine – arrest and trial of all members of all neo-Nazi groups.
This way, Russia can be assured of their safety, at least for a decade or two.
It kind of boggles my mind- if NATO never had that much soldiers and equipment to really challenge Russia in Ukraine, let alone the Baltic states and Finland- then
a) what exactly was NATO trying to achieve in Ukraine with the training of troops and materiel previously?
b) why was Russia so bothered by NATO’s five expansions?
c) what is NATO trying to achieve now?
there’s an interesting question i cant find a satisfactory “peaceful” answer to- what’s to stop Russia from going beyond Ukraine?
as it stands now, the only reason i can think of is- Russia has learned the lessons of the USSR and doesnt want to administer any other non-Russian native land anymore. its too much trouble.
as long as the kiev regime and their nazi storm troopers still exists , serving their masters in DC , there will be no peace to russia. If russia allow them to survive the US will rearm them again and this time with more and more weapons terrorizing the citizens of russia.
i see no way for russia to left these alone , the only way is either to pacify all urkaine or to regime change the zelensky puppet regime
If Russia moves to take Odessa and leave the rest of western Ukraine a land-locked country, it will be too poor to ever give Russia trouble again.
I dont really like the term mercenary to describe most of these foreign volunteers. They remind me more of the Spanish civil war. The ones that stuck around are more like the International Brigades. Mercenaries implies fighting for money and booty alone. Most of these guys think they are fighting as good guys.