Palestine Open Thread 2024-215

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Ukraine - CIA/MI-6 Chiefs Push For New Terror Campaign Against Russia

U.S. officials admit that there is no way left for Ukraine to win the war.

The acknowledgment should lead to change in policies. But the U.S. is out of ideas. It will continue to push the downtrodden Ukraine along the Primrose path.

Here is Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin:

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin cautioned on Friday there was "no one capability" that would turn the war in Ukraine in Kyiv's favour after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged the West to let his forces use its long-range weapons to strike Russia.
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"There's no one capability that will in and of itself be decisive in this campaign," Austin told reporters at the end of the meeting.

There are no super weapons left on the shelves that could change the picture. Everything that could be used has been used and failed.

The Kursk incursion was the last but short lived attempt to change the picture.

It did create some illusions ...

The War in Ukraine Is Already Over—Russia Just Doesn't Know it Yet - Reason
A front-line report from the Kursk offensive reveals that in the battle for hearts and minds, Ukraine’s resolve outpaces Russia’s crumbling morale, signaling an inevitable conclusion.

... only to soon be caught up reality:

Outgunned and outnumbered, Ukraine’s military is struggling with low morale and desertion - CNN

The Kursk incursion has failed.

Cont. reading: Ukraine - CIA/MI-6 Chiefs Push For New Terror Campaign Against Russia

The MoA Week In Review - OT 2024-214

Last week's posts on Moon of Alabama:

Palestine:

• Sep 2 - Ukraine - U.S. 'Experts' Throw The Towel
• Sep 3 - Ukraine - Russian Missile Strike Hits Swedish Instructors
• Sep 6 - Ukraine SitRep: Ukrainian Army Chief Reveals Lack of Strategy Behind Kursk Incursion
  Related:
  - Sweden’s foreign minister announces shock departure from politics - AP
  - The British illustrated the praise of Kiev from the Swedish Foreign Minister with a picture from the cemetery - EADaily
  - Glenn Diesen – The Increase in Ukrainian Casualties - BraveNewEurope

• Sep 7 - Caitlin Johnstone - Trump Vs. Cheney
  Related:
  - The Zweikaiserproblem of the US Empire - Agit Papadakis

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Other issues:

Cont. reading: The MoA Week In Review - OT 2024-214

Caitlin Johnstone - Trump Vs. Cheney

Busy.

But please read Caitlin:

It’s The Trump Party Vs The Cheney Party
One of earth’s most evil living beings, Dick “Darth Vader” Cheney, has officially endorsed Kamala Harris for president.

I agree and see nothing that could be done about it.

Ukraine SitRep: Ukrainian Army Chief Reveals Lack of Strategy Behind Kursk Incursion

With the help of a CNN interview the Ukrainian Commander in Chief General Syrski is hoping to gain more support from western sources.

Exclusive: Ukraine army chief reveals the strategy behind Kursk incursion - CNN, Sept 5 2024

In his first television interview since becoming military chief in February, the general told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour that he believed the Kursk operation had been a success.

“It reduced the threat of an enemy offensive. We prevented them from acting. We moved the fighting to the enemy’s territory so that [the enemy] could feel what we feel every day,” Syrskyi said, in a rare interview that offered a candid assessment of the war.
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Speaking to Amanpour at an undisclosed location near the frontline, the general, who took over as army chief in February, said Moscow moved tens of thousands of troops to Kursk, including some of its best airborne assault troops.

And while admitting that Ukraine was under immense pressure in the area around Pokrovsk, the strategic city that has for weeks been the epicenter of war in eastern Ukraine, Syrskyi said his troops have now managed to stall the Russian advances there.

“Over the last six days the enemy hasn’t advanced a single meter in the Pokrovsk direction. In other words, our strategy is working.” he said.

Maps as provided by the pro-Ukrainian LiveUAmap:

Cont. reading: Ukraine SitRep: Ukrainian Army Chief Reveals Lack of Strategy Behind Kursk Incursion

Palestine Open Thread 2024-213

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Ukraine Open Thread 2024-212

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Open (Neither Ukraine Nor Palestine) Thread 2024-211

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Notice Of Absence

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Please behave.

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Ukraine - Russian Missile Strike Hits Swedish Instructors

A Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian Military Institute of Communications in Poltava has at least killed 41 and wounded two hundreds. Other sources claim higher numbers.

Poltava is about 120 kilometer from the Russian border. The warning times after the missile launch was allegedly too short for everyone to reach the bunkers.

The Institute of Communications is training radio and radar operators. Its main multi-story building has been completely destroyed.

Britta Ellwanger, a (former?) Swedish volunteer with the Ukrainian army wrote that Swedish friends of hers, also volunteering with the Ukrainian army, were among those who died in the strike.

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Sweden had promised to gift two Swedish AWACS planes to Ukraine:

Sweden has announced sending its Saab 340B AEW&C (Airborne Early Warning and Control) aircraft to Kyiv, as per an announcement made by its defense ministry on May 29, 2024.

Given the nature of the Institute of Communications in Poltava it is likely that the Swedes were training Ukrainian operators for those.

One wonders why the training was not held elsewhere.

The Swedes should have remembered the history of that city:

The Battle of Poltava[e] (8 July 1709) was the decisive and largest battle of the Great Northern War. The Russian army under the command of Tsar Peter I defeated the Swedish army under the command of Carl Gustaf Rehnskiöld. The battle put an end to the status of the Swedish Empire as a European great power, as well as its eastbound expansion, and marked the beginning of Russian supremacy in eastern Europe.

Swedish and NATO attempts to change that status of Russia in eastern Europe more than 300 years after it had been achieved has ended in failure.