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THIRD TIME’S A CHARM ☙ Friday, August 4, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠
Proxy War narrative shifting continues as corporate media flips the script again; democrats stumble over Trump’s third arrest and indictment; and another beauty queen dies in a mysterious accident.
4 Aug 2023
Good morning, C&C, it’s Friday! Your roundup today includes: Proxy War narrative shifting continues as corporate media flips the script again; democrats stumble over Trump’s third arrest and indictment; and another beauty queen dies in a mysterious accident.
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🚀 I’d sarcastically say “nobody ever saw this coming,” since we all saw it coming, but corporate media’s new, improved Ukraine narrative is that they always knew the Proxy War would end this way, because the Ukrainians are bad at war, and because NATO was too stingy with its very best weapons.
The New York Times ran the story yesterday headlined, “Ukrainian Troops Trained by the West Stumble in Battle.” Yikes. The sub-headline added more context: “Ukraine’s army has for now set aside U.S. fighting methods and reverted to tactics it knows best.”
Well that ought to do it.
Keep two things in mind as this story continues. First, remember all the braying laughter from pro-Ukes all year long, as they bragged until our ears bled about the one successful Ukrainian military action late last summer repelling the Russians from a single advance on Kiev that in hindsight looks like it was always a feint. It is now more obvious than ever these war boosters are execrable scumbags, because of the second thing.
Second, remember all the unfortunate, ordinary Ukrainians whose war-torn country has been used as the Deep State’s ashtray, and who were sold out by their elected leaders and an Eastern European culture of corruption that allowed the country to be hawked to the highest bidder. We pray for them, and will gladly share our last cracker.
The Times quoted Michael Kofman, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace who recently visited the front lines, who explained that Ukrainians are just too stupid to understand modern warfare. Plus, everybody knew it wasn’t likely going to work:
“Arguably, the problem was in the assumption that with a few months of training, Ukrainian units could be converted into fighting more the way American forces might fight, leading the assault against a well-prepared Russian defense, rather than helping Ukrainians fight more the best way they know how,” Kofman explained.
The Western-trained brigades received only four to six weeks of combined arms training, and units made several mistakes at the start of the counteroffensive in early June that set them back… Some units failed to follow cleared paths and ran into mines. When a unit delayed a nighttime attack, an accompanying artillery bombardment to cover its advance went ahead as scheduled, tipping off the Russians.
In the first two weeks of the counteroffensive, as much as 20 percent of the weaponry Ukraine sent to the battlefield was damaged or destroyed
Military experts said that using newly learned tactics for the first time was always going to be hard.
Haha! It was always going to be hard! That’s what they always told us, right? They always warned there wasn’t enough time to train the Ukrainians properly. Right?
So there’s that. And there was another narrative reversal. Remember back when they laughed and predicted Russia would be out of ammo and manpower in no time? Consider this ominous line from the article: “President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has increasingly signaled that his strategy is to wait out Ukraine and its allies and win the war by exhausting them.”
Oh.
Try to keep up, dummies. At this point, the narrative has spun around to the reverse opposite of what they were telling us ten minutes ago. It used to be our strategy to wear down the Russians. Now it’s Russia’s strategy to “exhaust” Ukraine plus all of its NATO allies. And now Vladimir “V” Putin — oddly now including his middle initial — does have a strategy. So after all he’s not just a mindless, bloodthirsty warlord bent on destruction at all costs. And not only does Putin have a strategy, but — per the New York Times! — his strategy is working.
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