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Ukraine continues as many may now be aware of Russian forces have opened yet another front in the harkov region they have made an incursion into territory that Ukraine had uh taken following their fall offensive I will get into the history of that and how it is still to this day uh MI mischaracterized and how that mischaracterization skews uh many people in the West's understanding of this entire conflict let's take a look at the live map this is liveu map.com is a
pro-ukrainian live map so keep that in mind as we look at it and if we zoom in uh we will notice it's absent of the many Red Rifle icons and that's that happens when it it's being updated so just check refresh it check it and then you will see the Red Rifle icons and that indicates where Russian forces are on the move they are not taking a break not by any stretch of the imagination uh you would have seen the Red Rifle icons outside uh this area west of donet city west of adfa all of these towns that

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Ukrainian forces had fallen back to they are now under Russian control Russian forces continue to push Westward uh here outside B west of bakut chavar Russian forces continue making progress in this direction they are they're in the built up area of chass ofar that continues this is even according to this Pro Ukrainian map and of course uh what has been covered intensely over the last few days or or week now is the Russian incursion into this territory here in HOV territory that as you can see in blue had been previously held by Russian
forces at the beginning of the special military operation and then they had withdrawn and now they are back and they are taking this territory back and we're hearing a multitude of narratives coming out of both pro-russian and pro Ukrainian pro- Nat uh commentators talking about how this is a big Arrow offensive by by Russia they're storming into harkov they're going to take harkov City and and Ukrainian forces are stopping them and stabilizing the lines that that is not what is going on uh Russia number one seeks to create a
buffer zone here to put an end to Ukrainian attacks on population centers in belgrad they also as they have been doing all along building up their military forces and then introducing them onto the battlefield in areas that forc Ukraine to commit reserves what is left of its reserves stretch their army as thin as possible and continue grinding it down you have Ukrainian forces fighting everywhere all at once and they're not able to fight effectively anywhere that is the Strategic dilemma that Russia has created for Ukraine and continues to
compound as it introduces these additional forces that it is Raising arming mobilizing sending uh into the line of contact sending to the line of contact let's take a look at how the Western media has been covering this this was toward the beginning May th via the hill Russia launches major offensive in harkov region they're calling it an offensive and technically you could call it an offensive Russian forces are moving forward they're attacking Ukrainian positions but it is not an offensive in the sense that this
is a big Arrow offensive seeking to sweep in and take huge tracks of territory or to surround cut off and and capture HOV City it is nothing of the sort it is a extension of the attritional Warfare that Russia has been fighting all along the article says Russian forces appear to have launched the offensive from the Russia uh from the Russia's belgrad region and are moving toward the town of volchansk which lies north of HOV the second largest city in Ukraine Russia is putting intense pressure on Ukrainian
forces across the front line making critical advances in the donet region after months long delay of new US military aid to KF so that that is essentially what Russia is doing it's creating a buffer zone there's also creating additional pressure on thin and now crumbling Ukrainian lines that that is the whole point of this it was the right time to do it and it creates an intense iic crisis for Ukraine then the hill cites various Western analysts this is what it says George baros the Russia team and geospatial intelligence team
lead at The Institute for the study of War said on X that moscow's attack may be a reconnaissance enforce a large maneuver meant to gain information about an enemy's position or a badly conducted combined arms attack either way the attack will put more strain on Ukraine on another front as troops are already defending against Russian assaults across the eastern and Southeastern battle lines Michael Kaufman a senior fellow in the Russian and Eurasia program at the carnegi Endowment for International Peace told the war on the
Rocks podcast earlier in the week that if Russian forces can move closer to HOV City they could force a partial evacuation and create a major problem and then they quote Michael koffin and he says well I don't think Russia has the forces to take HOV no obviously they're not trying to take clov it's it's not even something they would concern themselves with or even think about at this point uh they may conduct an incursion to create a so-called buffer space that would effectively hold HOV at risk and it would be something
Ukrainian forces would have to deal with all the way up to the Northeast that would then create a lot of challenges for them in sustaining the rest of the line exactly that is exactly what Russia is doing is creating a buffer zone to protect belrad and at the same time an extreme strategic dilemma for Ukraine in addition to all the other dilemmas that are multiplying and compounding uh especially this first analyst George baros who wants to try to suggest that this this could possibly be a a blunder a Russian blunder an attempt an attempted
offensive to sweep in and take hard COV this is not something that Russia has been doing throughout the special military operation they have made it abundantly clear they have even openly said that their goal is to grind down Ukrainian troops grind down Ukrainian military capabilities that is the the whole point they're building up their military industrial base to help produce the collective West they're raising additional Force they outnumber they outgun Ukrainian troops on the ground it is a war of attrition time is on their
side and they're using this to their full advantage they put additional pressure when they are able to when is uh optimal and that is exactly what they're doing in the HOV region this is now an an additional area Ukraine says they're they're stabilizing the lines there well how are they doing that they're taking scarce troops equipment and ammunition they're sending it there to fight Russian forces there which means it can't be elsewhere let's take a look at this France article
Germany's Schultz joins with Nordic countries to urge Europe to boost Ukraine Aid so there has been there's been Panic additional panic because there was already a a mounting sense of panic across the West as Ukrainian lines began to crumble in in the dumus region that that was already happening now you have this additional crisis in harkov the Panic is growing and so this is what France reports Germany announced that it would send a third Patriot air defense system to Ukraine in April a decision Schultz said
was difficult because they do not have many of the systems and they don't have many of the interceptors for the system to fire either that that is actually the main problem but it was important to do uh that we hope some of our European countries can follow he said during a security and competitiveness Summit in Sweden with Prime Ministers of five Nordic countries Ukraine needs a lot of Munitions artillery tanks and air defense and especially Patriot and the iris system from Germany which will be most helpful Schultz said we will
support Ukraine as long as it takes he stressed again that they have to send these systems these are not additional systems Ukraine will now have it at its disposal these are systems to replace Patriot air defense systems that have been targeted and destroyed by Russian forces the other problem is the actual interceptors the Patriot missile system fires they do not have enough of them there was already a critical shortage before they were even sent to Ukraine there was a critical shortage because Saudi Arabia was using them extensively
in its war with Yemen and so that is the problem you can as many systems as you want but if there are no missiles for them to fire then what good is it doing and if you continue to send additional systems just to replace systems that have been destroyed there is no critical mass that you're moving towards you you will never have enough of these systems on the battlefield to sufficiently defend Ukrainian airspace and because of that Russian forces will continue to apply pressure not only along the line of contact but far behind the line of
contact they will degrade Ukrainian forces on the line of contact and the military capabilities Logistics uh Supply Centers training grounds behind the line of contact that is enabling the line of contact to continue to fight on I've talked about us production of patriot interceptors it's somewhere between at maximum or or they're trying to expand to missiles a year and as the Western media has pointed out many times Russia is firing thousands of missiles at Targets across Ukraine every
single year and in the air defense role you want to fire at least two or more interceptors per incoming Target to increase the probability of an intercept and and so you can clearly see the math does not add up in Ukraine's favor and it never will there's there's nothing that the US could do there's nothing that they're even talking about doing to rectify this problem the article then says the Danish Prime Minister whose country has also been a major donor of Ukraine echoed Schultz's call the main
reason for the losses in Ukraine right now is because of the lack of air defense and we have the systems so if we have only one wish it would be to deliver air defense systems as quickly as possible she said we have to speed up we have to scale up in a short-term perspective she said Ukraine cannot win it on their own they have to do it with equipment from us but they don't make the equipment fast enough or in great enough quantities they haven't they aren't they won't be and so if Ukraine cannot win on
their own without this equipment and the West is incapable of providing it that means Ukraine is inevitably going to lose and even a western intervention will depend on having this equipment if they don't have it to transfer to Ukraine obviously where are they going to get it when they need it uh for their own intervention in Ukraine if if that comes to pass I have pointed out many times before this type of warfare large scale intense protracted requires years of preparation Russia prepared in advance for years for this precise type of con
conflict the West did not they were busy with their small Wars their military forces stretched around the globe they did not have the military-industrial capacity to support this type of conflict now they realize that they need it but because it takes years to develop it will take them years to catch up Ukraine simply does not have years now we're talking about this crisis in hard COV and we hear a lot of people wondering how how could this happen how could Russian forces just suddenly appear uh inside HOV
and proceed to take territory on on this scale this quickly taking territory much faster in a much shorter period of time than Ukraine did during his offensive which ultimately was defeated by Russian defenses here we have have an article this is in uh Ukrainian uh we can translate it where are the fortifications OVA paid Millions to fictitious firms this is an article about how Millions upon millions of dollars were paid to companies that don't exist connected to basically career criminals and HOV they took this
money and it disappeared instead of being used to build fortifications now it's not impossible for this to be true this is almost certainly true uh Gonzalo lra who ultimately was killed through neglect in a Ukrainian prison in HOV before he died he talked about the immense corruption not only in Ukraine in general but in HOV in particular and so this lines up with everything that we have been hearing about what is going on in Ukraine post following the US political capture of Ukraine blaming it on the local
government or criminals in harkov is very convenient for Kiev they can say it's not our fault it's their fault they stole the money and use them as scapegoats But ultimately hartov is the second largest city in Ukraine the security in and around the city in in in its all blast is ultimately the responsibility of Kiev almost certainly there were politicians military leaders from Kiev who went to HOV to inspect the building of fortifications and if they really were not being constructed someone somewhere knew about it and they
made the conscious decision to ignore it or to cover cover it up or to Aid an bet this corruption this theft of resources that were meant to go to fortifications either way this this is just one symptom of a much greater sickness this is what happens when a country is overrun with people who are willing to work with foreign interests and in Washington in particular against the interests of their own country against even their own self preservation we we can see this process now playing out in Ukraine these are people who did not think several
steps ahead of what they were getting themselves into when they decided to work with the United States other people who understand what the US is doing all around the globe they predicted that this would happen they warned that this would happen now it is happening and as I have said many times in the past Ukraine the US government European leaders NATO they are their own worst enemies if this is true if these fortifications were not built the Frontline fortifications if they were not built surely fallback positions were not properly prepared and
if that is true then that is an additional critical problem on top of all the other problems Ukraine faces a a lack of trained Manpower a lack of arms and ammunition uh degrading of their existing military capabilities and now they don't even have proper defenses prepared ahead of Russian advances Russian Russia placing pressure on Ukrainian forces and even though this is not a big Arrow offensive meant to take sweeping tracks of territory the fact that there are insufficient fortifications for Ukrainian forces means that Russia will
be able to take a a greater toll in terms of attrition on the Ukrainian forces in and around hardcov let's continue looking at Western media coverage of all of this here is the New York Times facing Russian Advance a top Ukrainian General paints a bleak picture Ukrainian Ukraine's forces are stretch thin and have minimal reserves to draw on the chief of military intelligence said in addition to shortages of weapons these are all things that I have been saying for the last two years this was May th these are things that I have
been saying for years now two years over two years and people dismissed it as Russian propaganda now here is buinov head of military intelligence saying all of this the article goes on and it says uh the situation is on the edge said General budanov the head of Ukraine's Military Intelligence Agency this is was in a a video call from a bunker in HOV if you believe that every hour this situation moves toward critical his Bleak assessment echoed those of uh another Ukrainian officers in recent days that the country's military
prospects were dimming again people objectively looking at what is going on in Ukraine saw this taking shape over the last two years this was entirely predictable there's nothing surprising about any of this at all this is what happens when you are fighting a war of attra rtion you do not have sufficient military industrial capacity to support a war of attrition and you attempt to substitute Public Relation stunts in place for where you actually require large amounts of Manpower arms and ammunition in addition
to being outnumbered the ukrainians face critical shortages of weapons especially artillery ammunition and $ billion worth of Arms from the United States approved weeks ago after months of congressional gridlock have barely begun to arrive and I was listening to Michael Kaufman in another interview or discussion he was having and he was talking about how unrealistic it is for people to imagine that this ammunition is going to just suddenly show up at the front line instantly after it's been approved and that is true but what is
also true is that even before the delay in Congressional funding again and for months shortages were becoming increasingly critical the United States and Europe simply do not make enough artillery shells for Ukraine so even though they're sending additional artillery shells it is nowhere near the amount necessary for Ukraine to even match let alone exceed what Russia is firing it's not even going to be enough to slow down what is happening along the line of contact there are other factors at play now because Ukraine's military
capabilities have been so vastly degraded that even with additional ammunition it's not going to make a difference there are other factors that have been allowed to develop that are irreversible that are going to cause the continued degradation of Ukraine's defenses It also says like most Ukrainian Ukrainian officials and Military experts General buinov said he believes the Russian attacks in the Northeast are intended to stretch Ukraine's already thin reserves of soldiers and divert them from fighting
elsewhere exactly that is exactly that is exactly the objective then he says all of our forces are either here or in chass ofar I've used everything we have unfortunately we don't have anyone else in the reserves and I've heard Michael Kaufman and many other Western uh experts analysts commentators talking about how between now and Ukraine can can mobile Manpower train them and get them to the front to to turn this around and as I pointed out ahead of the offensive there was a six-month to oneyear window
where they were trying to build new brigades uh for the offensive and I explained how impossible that is it takes years to build a new brigade it and it will take a year or more to reconstitute existing brigades that have been decimated in this type of fighting you have lost officers commanding various levels within the Brigade and also non-commissioned officers they take years to train and gain the experience necessary to effectively lead men in battle yes you could accelerate that but when they when they lead men into battle
they will be ineffective and what you will have is a a situation that continues to exponentially unravel and and that is what we're seeing in Ukraine that is why Russia has chosen a attrition over big Arrow offensives because big arrow offensives means crashing your forces through prepared defenses crashing through minefields running out in the open in the face of enemy artillery drones other Precision guided Munitions doing it this way is slower but it's safer it grinds down enemy forces while it preserves
your Manpower and equipment as I've been saying for the last two years uh it's not going to change it is working there's no reason for Russia to change its strategy we also have this article again from the New York Times White House worries Russia's momentum is changing trajectory of Ukraine war multiple factors are helping Russia's military Advance including a delay in American weaponry and moscow's technological innovations on the battlefield well again the delay in American Weaponry that that is a
misdirection there were critical shortages and compounding problems before the delay even began as far as moscow's technological innovations on the battlefield this did not happen overnight this did not even happen over the last two years the groundwork for this was set years ago and it is something the West cannot replicate without likewise putting the years of preparation in ground work in before they begin to reap the results that Russia now enjoys the article also says just months ago White House and
Pentagon officials debated whether Russia's forces in Ukraine might collapse and be pushed out of the country entirely now after months of slow Russian ground advances and technological leaps en countering American provided arms the Biden Administration is increasingly concerned that President Vladimir V Putin is gathering enough momentum to change the trajectory of the war and perhaps reverse his once Bleak prospects maybe those prospects uh being that Bleak were simply a product of Western uh propaganda or strategic
tactical strategic and political blindness Russia's ability to counter American provided arms these articles that I have been reading from across the Western media about Russia jamming High Mars guided Rock Rockets attacks the ground launch small diameter bombs uh the GPS guided Xcalibur mm artillery shell Russia's advantage in electronic warfare and also air and missile defenses did not happen over the last couple of months or even the last two years this was an advantage Russia and before Russia the Soviet Union invested
in for decades for the United States to match these type of capabilities they would need to make a similar investment and they aren't they're not even talking about doing so the article also says in recent days moscow's troops have opened a new push near the country's second biggest city HOV forcing Ukraine to divert it's already thinned out troops to defend an area that it took back from Russian forces in a stunning victory in the fall of was it a stunning Victory if people remember I pointed out that even though
Ukraine did take large tracks of territory in harkov they also took the West Bank of Khan they did so at Great cost Russian forces uh defended very well in Khan they made a conscious decision to move east of the Neer River but but before they did that they had decimated Ukrainian offensive forces and I remember reading over and over again these articles from newspapers like the New York Times And The Washington Post about the the how badly outfought Ukrainian forces were outside Kiran City and then in HOV Russian
forces withdrew more rapidly but as they did Ukrainian forces out from behind their defenses were targeted and struck by long- range Russian Firepower and they suffered heavy losses in the again this these were losses that even the Western media admitted so they traded their their army their Manpower and their equipment for these territorial gains they they did not route Russian forces Russia made the decision to withdraw Russia suffered losses obviously but not not nearly as many as some sources suggested and we know this
because come it was time for Ukraine's offensive and we we watched Ukraine attempt to rebuild their army after suffering heavy losses in HOV and keran the year before and we were told that Russia had suffered so many losses that come the Ukrainian offensive Ukrainian forces would just plow through Russian defenses but that didn't happen the article continues artillery and drones provided by the United States and NATO have been taken out by Russian electronic warfare techniques which came to the battlefield late but have proven
surprisingly effective after a monthlong debate in Washington about whether to send Ukraine a billion doll package of arms and ammunition created an opening that Russia has clearly exploited even through Cong even though Congress ultimately passed the legislation in interviews American officials Express confidence that many of these Russian gains are reversible once the spigot of new arms is fully opened most likely sometime in July and President Vladimir zalinski of Ukraine finds way to bring more and younger troops to the front
lines but they are hesitant to offer predictions of where the battle lines May stand even a few months from now or whether Mr zalinski will be able to mount his long delayed counter offensive next year after last spring after the one last spring fizzled if Ukraine could not succeed last year with their offensive considering all the advantages they had then versus where they are now there is no way they're going to be mounting any any sort of successful counter offensive not this year not next year not any year
in the future it is actually very easy to make predictions about where all of this is going to go Ukrainian forces will continue to degrade their lines will continue to crumble Russian forces will continue to gain strength both in numbers also capabilities and this will just continue in this direction it's not going to continue in a in a linear manner in Russia's favor it will look more uh like an exponential increase in Russian success as Ukrainian forces degrade lines crumble trained Manpower disappears they're talking about
mobilizing more and younger men these are men that are not going to receive even the most basic training before they are sent to the front lines and how effective will they be they will not be effective at all and we have seen the steady decrease in in effectiveness of Ukrainian forces since this all began this claim that the spigot of us arms and ammunition is now reopened again ignores the fact that even before the delay Ukrainian military capabilities were degrading defenses were crumbling cities were being taken
by Russian forces how do they account for that um they're they're using this as an excuse and they're using this as a means to continue compelling Ukraine to fight on as if somehow there is light at the end of the tunnel and there just simply is not the article continues it says the delay in American supplies has been matched by a similarly long delay in Ukraine approving a mobilization law to bring more and younger soldiers into its military Ukraine is suffering acute shortages of soldiers and struggling to
provide adequate training to those it brings into the military if that is the case then mobilizing more manpower is not going to fix the problem the problem is time you have no time to train them properly and that's and that's it you you you have lost too many soldiers and especially Soldiers with leadership skills and experience there is no way to replace that not in months not a year not even two years and then it continues but all those Russian advant ages will not last indefinitely and Russian forces are
likely to make a push this summer said Michael K Michael Koffman again cited a Russian expert at the carnegi Endowment for International Peace in Washington but actually these Russian advantages will persist and they will actually increase in the Russian military enjoys a material advantage and the Strategic initiative though it may not prove decisive Mr Kaufman said this year represents a window of opportunity for Russia but if the Russian military is not able to turn these advantages into Battlefield gains and generate momentum
there's a fair chance that this window will begin to close as we enter except Russia is is making Battlefield gains and generating momentum just not in the way Michael Kaufman and many others across the West performing analysis on this conflict imagine they imagine territorial gains Russia is not attempting to make territorial gains first and foremost this is a war of attrition and if Russia is wiping out more Ukrainian Manpower and Equipment then it itself is losing if it's able to generate forces
faster and more numerous than Ukraine and its Western sponsors can that is a battlefield gain in a war of attrition that is generating momentum there's no doubt that Russia is generating momentum in terms of its War of Attrition and so this constant obsession over territorial gains is is clouding their overall ability to understand what is happening and because they don't understand what is happening they continue to believe that somehow this can be turned around as if if Russia does not make all of
these territorial gains somehow they'll be at a disadvantage come when in reality Russia is focused on decimating Ukrainian forces to the point where no amount of Aid no amount of military industrial output by the West is going to be able to turn things around especially the Manpower issue once they have sufficiently decimated not not just the rank and file of Ukraine's military but the officers the ncos once once that has reached a certain point there is no way to turn it around I want to talk
about this before I conclude uh and I want to conclude on the prospect of NATO intervention in Ukraine this is from Reuters Ukrainian strike on Crimea Airbase destroys three Russian warplanes satellite firm says May and why is this big news because Ukraine launches a lot of missiles drones and Rockets and they achieve very little so when one missile or rocket or drone does get through and cause damage it makes headlines for for days if not a week or more and in this case a missile did get through at an air base in Crimea it's
apparently has destroyed aircraft so let's read about this a longrange Ukrainian strike on the Moscow controlled belbeck Airbase in occupied Crimea destroyed three Russian war planes and a fuel facility near its main Runway this week us commercial satellite company maxar said the company sat cited satellite imagery taken on Thursday as showing that two Mig fighter jets and a sue fighter jet had been destroyed it said one MiG fighter aircraft also appeared to have been damaged It also says the Russian defense minister said
on Thursday that Ukraine had staged an overnight attack on Crimea and that its Air Defense Forces had intercepted five longrange missiles known as attacks on Wednesday it said Russia had intercepted longrange attack thems also launched at Crimea it did not report any damage to military facilities and either attack and if you look at satellite pictures and you you look at the Damage Done It looks like uh one of these attack on missiles got through it used cluster Munitions which means it has an area effect is not just targeting
one aircraft is going to Target a number of aircraft and any other sort of ground support equipment in in the blast radius the the cluster Munitions are able to damage even destroy equipment that's left out in the open and as I have said many times before almost certainly it it can be said that these weapons transferred over to Ukraine High Mars uh the guided Rockets attack thems these longer range missiles the air launched cruise missiles these are ineffective they are not effective the vast majority of them
are destroyed and only occasionally do they make it through and hit their targets to the point where it is not going to make any difference at all regarding the fighting three aircraft destroyed how often does this happen Russia has hundreds of aircraft they're also producing aircraft every year they do not manufacture new Mig s any longer but they're able to take old migs out of storage modernize them and return them to service and so if these make s are replaced that is how they will do it this will make no difference
at all for Ukraine even if many more of these missiles were making it through it simply would not be enough to change the course of this conflict not the way that it's going now what I will say though is by properly dispersing your aircraft and equipment by properly housing them in hardened structures this could have been avoided these cluster Munitions are not powerful enough to penetrate properly constructed hardened structures no this this one attack the loss of three aircraft is not going to change the course of this proxy war
between the US and Russia being fought through Ukraine however this equipment that Russia has as much of it as possible is needed to deter the prospect of NATO intervention the more of this equipment that Russia is able to maintain and keep operational the more of a deterrence it will be for a NATO Intervention when NATO sees this equipment being destroyed even if it's just a small amount here and there ever so slightly it increases the the Temptation for NATO to get involved directly because this is a war of
attrition the way that that it is developing now is irreversible there's no way for Ukraine simply backed and sponsored by by the collective West to turn this conflict around the only possible way this could be stopped or possibly reversed is uh for a large scale NATO intervention so you would want you would want to try to deter that as much as possible if you were Russia which means you might want to invest more in deter uh preserving your Manpower and equipment by taking not not trivial measures to prevent incidents
like this however far and few between they are uh but it it might be worth investing in in dispersing your equipment better and protecting it better now speaking of NATO intervention I want to talk about this article here from the Kiev independent German lawmakers suggest allies could protect sky over Western Ukraine from NATO soil now this doesn't make any sense at all the vast majority of Russian missiles long range missiles are fired well well beyond Ukrainian airspace so we we hear a lot of people calling for a no fly zone over Ukraine
but Russia's war planes when they're launching these long range cruise missiles their ships are launching cruise missiles from the the distant corners of the Black Sea this is not happening anywhere near Ukrainian airspace the missiles are flying into Ukrainian airspace but the the aircraft and ships launching them are nowhere near Ukrainian airspace or Shores what they what they do seem to be talking about is trying to shoot these missiles down with air defense systems based outside of Ukraine and and the obvious reason
they're trying to do that is to prevent them from being targeted and destroyed by Russian missiles and so obviously even though the Western media has attempted to downplay this they wouldn't be talking about this if the air defense systems in Ukraine were not being targeted and destroyed at an alarming rate so that is obviously happen that's something that Russia has claimed is happening there has been a lot of photographic and video evidence that this is happening and when you see uh policies like this proposed it
suggests that it is happening at an alarming right now if you put air defense systems in Poland or Romania their ability to cover Ukrainian airspace is going to be very very limited and even the area where they're trying to protect missiles are always going to get through drones will always get through and while the systems might not be targeted by Russia because they're in these other countries the main problem NATO has is not necessarily preserving these systems so that that that is a problem as well the
problem is the interceptors they simply do not make enough interceptors and that is not going to change anytime soon so even if you could keep some of these systems operational by preventing Russia from destroying them because they're in Poland they're in Romania you're still short on interceptors so how are you going to protect Ukrainian airspace so it all comes back around to Logistics military industrial production they also talk about a focus on supplying additional defense Aid to Kiev they also said this would relieve the
burden on the Ukrainian air defense and allow to protect the front but what has been happening all along the front why is why is Ukraine running out of air defense systems to protect the front because when they go to the front they are targeted and destroyed even when they're deep behind the line of contact Russia is still able to find them Target them and Destroy them and so even if this worked perfectly and and freed up whatever is left of Ukrainian air defenses those air defenses would go to the front and
Russia would simply hunt them down and destroy destroy them when you hear people proposing policies like this it is out of desperation they're watching their air defense systems disappear their the the interceptors are depleted and their systems are being targeted and destroyed so they're just thinking of anything at all they can do to try to at least slow this process down this would slow the process down by maybe a couple of months now what I will say is that this could be a way for NATO to incrementally begin the construction of
a buffer zone we we continuously hear about NATO Personnel on the ground in Ukraine already filling a number of roles a growing number of roles we hear about European countries sending soldiers to go train ukrainians inside Ukraine I think this this is also already happening we hear about proposals to send troops in to protect different parts of Ukraine behind the line of contact to free up ukrainians to go to the line of contact which again is just going to feed them into this war of attrition where they will all be they will all be maimed or
killed now we we're talking about air defenses along the border and then if you're doing that it's just another small step to suggest placing them on the other side of the border and just eventually end up building a buffer zone in Western Ukraine as myself and many others have been warning about since this special military operation began all the way back in of course constructing a buffer zone in Western Ukraine is not guaranteed to prevent a Russian attack on those Western forces one of the first
things Russia did when it began the special military operation was destroy the NATO training grounds in Western Ukraine we've also heard Russia officially and unofficially vow to strike at Western forces if they were to cross over into Ukraine and at the end of the day it looks more like a bluff from the West than any sort of serious plan if the West is incapable of supplying Ukraine with sufficient artillery ammunition and air defenses who's going to supply the collective West with a sufficient number
of artillery shells and air defenses if they become directly involved and so what they're gambling on is Russia's reluctance to escalate with the collective West if they put those troops inside Ukraine it is an extremely dangerous game it is an act of desperation the West is desperate they are losing this proxy war they understand that losing this proxy war against Russia in Ukraine is just the first step of many to reversing their Global hegemony everywhere else so we have to keep a very close eye on this it's a
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