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Lysichansk Is Under Control Of The Russian Side
Lysichansk is now under control of the Russian side of the war.
This was reported by a Russian speaking journalist from the Lysichansk City Park (map) which is at the center of the city. There are a few locals around him who seem to be happy. There is no background noise of shooting or artillery fire or impacts in his report.
The Lugansk People’s Republic now has the entire territory of the Lugansk oblast under its control.
This comes only a week after the cauldron around Lysichansk began to close. Until a few hours ago there was still a chance to flee from Lysichansk but the only passable road was under Russian fire. It is not know yet how many made it out or how many gave up and were taken prisoners.
Some of those who retreated went to Siversk some 20 kilometer west of Lysichansk. That city will be the next bigger target in that campaign sector.
The speed of this operation was much faster than the one in Mariupol. That points to diminished capabilities and soldier motivation of the Ukrainian forces.
The now much shortened frontline frees up several battalion tactical groups on the Russian side which can now be refitted and rested to then move elsewhere.
Staying in the US-dominated unipolar world means everyone has to sacrifice their country’s prosperity and the lives of their people to US demands….
Posted by: Kingsmeg | Jul 3 2022 13:15 utc | 315
An astute observation. Recall (as EU Consilium is wont to preface legal text) however, you are attempting to communicate to a forum born on third who believe they hit a triple–in a so-called Great Game between two players (not even a team) that began in 1937 or 1939, depending on which player one “roots” for. That the “two” players are not even playing the same game would require a guided epiphany beyond the scope of the disjunctive communication format provided. (Thus, disqualifying specators not bound by the rationality of “zero-sum” alias first-past-the post alias winner-take-all) objective from credible contribution to … a theory of “geopolitical” equilibrium, instead of global apocalypse.
I note with interest–whether the thread head is UKRAINE or “OPEN” how infrequently–correspondents are willing or able to relate current, much less historical, “mulltipolar” events (team “plays”?) to purported strategies of either player. Take for example a conceptualization of reflexive RU “allies”; RU (immortal PUTIN) alone victorious on the UA battlefield automatically substantiates some EURASIA alternative to, ahem, white supremacy (ex “slav” culture), represented by econ, fin, religious [BWAH!], and territorial hegemony of POTUS du jour (“THE WEST”). Continuity is not well-understood by innerboob suppliants yearning to be free of “fascism” alias “totalitarianism alias “dictatorship alias “tyranny alias “plutocracy alias “corportacy alias “kleptocracy which they inhabit and to whose GNP they contribute “passive income”, anonymously. You detect the irony a parochial attitude toward the world cultivates ignorance of it and one’s part in the evolution, ahem, of “democratic processes”.
ICYMI, recalling just the last 12 mo. AG, KZ, PK , UZ civil distubance of the “rules-bases” order FKA “international norms FKA “international law” of “territorial integrity”: Uzbekistan president backtracks on constitution to defuse Karakalpakstan tension. Apparantly, the proximate cause is articles of, or “mechanisms” for, secession which, incidentally, neither “modern democracies” US, EU27, nor UA have ever provided.
ICYMI, Pakistan’s post-colonial political schism isn’t simply a domestic SNAFU. Dictorship of the proles (Khan) vs dictorship of th military (Sharif) opened a Khybur Pass for “The West” to sabotage “infrastructure development” financed by CN instead of IMF. It’s been brewing since 2008, although PK debt service to IMF started decades (1950) before CPEC build-out toward EaEU ports.
ICYMI, Maryam blames Imran govt for lack of trust by IMF
Daughter of the ousted {PM] Nawaz Sharif said this while addressing a rally held to launch the by-election campaign of the PML-N candidate for PP-167
Imperial basket SDR-conversion rates
Following another thread subplot, one UID also expressed a interest in imperial Japan’s militancy, beginning only LOL The Sino-Japanese War as if the only, as if unrelated to RU conflict, much less rest of “modern” INDOPACOM, since post-Edo US, UK historiagraphy translated global trade dependency. “in the region”.
ICYMI this week,
Putin orders a huge [Sakhalin-2 ] oil and gas [SPIN-OFF];
Will [RIMPAC] exercises be part of Yoon, Kishida’s push to improve ties?
Then, there’s 55 nations of Africa and 33 nation of “Latin” America spanning AU, OIC, CELAC, C-TPP, APEC, and BRICS and rummaging for export growth …
Is it any wonder, I began repeatedly to post formal yet subaltern incorporation of nation states’ alliances on whom the “two” actually rely for ideological and material assistance, both real and imagined, to accomplish their goals–either “unipoloar” or “multipolar” cooperation?
Posted by: sln2002 | Jul 3 2022 16:03 utc | 326
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