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Ukraine Finally Starts To Build Defense Lines
After wasting ten-thousands of men in hopeless battles the Ukrainian comedian has finally acknowledged that his army's performative 'counter-attacks' and hold-to-the-last-man defenses have made no sense.
Politco's Dreamer of the year finally calls for building defensive lines:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called for a faster buildup of major defensive lines amid Kyiv’s stalled counteroffensive and concerns that Russia could attempt to take more territory.
Zelenskiy urged greater speed and efficiency in building defenses in a video statement on Telegram after a meeting with key military and security officials Tuesday evening. He encouraged local communities to pitch in and pledged to make money available for the effort.
“Our country will definitely have enough mines and concrete,” he said. He didn’t provide details on where the fortifications would be built or how extensive they might be.
It took the Russian army several months and lots of money to build its extensive defense lines in the southeast of Ukraine.
Zelenski has neither the time nor the money to build solid lines but he wants many of them (machine translation):
According to Zelensky, he held a meeting on fortification in all major directions – first of all on Avdiivka and Maryinsky, as well as on Kupyansk and on the Kupyansk – Liman line, in Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.
In addition, fortifications will be built along the entire border with Russia and Belarus.
"We will work with our partners to strengthen our defensive lines," the president added.
Earlier, Zelensky already spoke about a "special" meeting of the Stavka, where they discussed strengthening the fortification.
Comments Strana (machine translation):
This is quite a landmark statement. It sounds like an announcement of the construction of large-scale defensive lines-similar to the one that Russia has built in the south.
And more broadly, this can be interpreted as a transition to a defensive strategy, which began to be talked about more and more often after the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine actually stopped, and the Russians themselves switched to large-scale attacks.
But officially, the authorities do not talk about the transition to defense, and the main thesis remains that the APU is preparing to attack, and there is no deadlock (which even the commander-in-chief Valery Zaluzhny wrote about) at the front.
Zelenski called for private companies to build the new fortifications. In the context of Ukraine that means more corruption – lots of it – as government officials will ask for kick backs for any contract they may sign. Previous attempts of privately build defense lines had ditches that were too shallow and of little utility. Some concrete was poured but in the wrong places and shapes.
There were reasons why Ukraine failed last summer to overcome the Russian defense lines. It lacked the artillery support, air-superiority and sheer mass that is required to achieve that. But Russia has all of that – an enormous amount of heavy siege artillery (200 mm and beyond), a ridiculous superiority in the number of unmanned drones and manned fighter planes and lots of new contract soldiers. Any lines the Ukrainians can build will be overcome by superior Russian forces.
Yes, passing Ukrainian minefields will be difficult. But there are ways and means to do such.
Thanks to its previous lunatic attempts the Ukrainian army has lost too many men to hold each and every line. And while the Ukrainian army will have to defend everywhere, the Russia one can choose the one or two local fronts where it wants to breach the defense lines to pass through them.
What is planned now is too little too late to save Ukraine.
I know b attempts to keep subject’s separate and begs us to keep on topic.
I try but when you have meat grinders in the ukraine that the US feeds the last ethnic into man woman (and child soon) and the Illegal Apartheid State doing the same to Palestinians daily – then we must point out how the two ugly, entities are LINKED. Along with the Anglo Europeans and US Imperialism.
The murderous Nazi banderists and fascist apartheid Zionists are joined at the hip.
Let’s have a look at this attempt by the publication, the Atlantic, pre-covid, pre Biden presidency, during Trumps impeachment bullshit (as he was obviously refusing to green light the Ukrops attack plans on the Donbass and Crimea) – while ushering in the proxy petty new Churchill/Banderism that could oversee that attempt and some of the characters and DS agencies who are directly involved.
Yup it’s the usual suspects. I’ll try to keep extracts short . It’s worth reading the whole article from this distance as you can easily see what the mockingbird Franklin attempts with his article as they fought Trump and primed Shelenski for the grand betrayal of the deluded ukranians with their dreams of being some actual old Europeans and clever and rich as the Germans and sophisticated as the French and mighty warriors as the British – all fairytales and propaganda fantasies in themselves.
My comments in brackets.
https://web.archive.org/web/20191203191607/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/12/zelensky-ukraine-impeachment/602905/
‘Franklin Foer is a staff writer for The Atlantic. He is the author of World Without Mind and How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization. ‘
—[ lol Soccer? It’s FOOTBALL! The darn fool trying to sound off about populism without having a clue – but it is the Opium of the masses in some parts of the world]
“Beneath a gray sky, with the shambolic shtetl before me, I felt overwhelmed by the historic irony: A Ukrainian gentile was proudly protecting a Jewish village.
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Although vandalism of synagogues and cemeteries persists—and the country has a weakness for venerating 20th-century heroes who instigated pogroms—there hasn’t been a single anti-Semitic assault reported in the country since August 2016.
—[ Lol “REPORTED” ]
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Ukrainian parents would be pleased if their daughters married Jewish men, because Jews are identified with devotion to family.
—[ lol WHILE ALL OTHER UKRAINIAN WOMEN ARE PEONS OF VITUE AND THE MEN ARE RUNAWAY SCOUNDRELS! ]
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“There was a steady drumbeat from Russia that a fascist junta was taking over,” according to Sam Sokol, the author of Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews. In the face of this slander, Ukrainians self-consciously set out to debunk the charge. “Anti-Semitism dropped sharply after the Russian invasion,” Likhachev told me.
—[lol – oh a there WAS A-S ! And it magically vanished … or stopped being REPORTED … RECORDED?]
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Still, Anatevka’s fairy-tale ending comes with a foreboding coda. A monument honoring Tevye’s creator, Sholem Aleichem, stands across from the Brodsky synagogue, in Kyiv. Soon after I left the country this fall, vandals spray-painted red swastikas on the statute’s belly and one of its legs, the marks of a disease that can’t be eradicated and might violently flare again. Ukraine’s fitful journey toward liberalism suggests that even seemingly decisive victories are tenuous, easily undone by the forces lurking within. “
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He [Leshchenko ] told me how he had first caught wind of Zelensky’s presidential ambitions, well before his campaign launched. Out of journalistic curiosity, Leshchenko had asked to meet the potential candidate, to get a sense of the man and his intentions.
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When Leshchenko talked about corruption, Zelensky didn’t know basic facts about the judicial system. “It was clear from the first meeting that he had limited knowledge,” he told me. Leshchenko saw an opening to shape Zelensky’s agenda, to mold him into a tribune of reform.
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Leshchenko found himself drawn into the campaign, attending sensitive meetings with U.S. diplomats and officials from the World Bank.
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In 2012, Forbes Ukraine reported his [She-lenskis] company’s income as $15 million. Zelensky was rich enough to purchase a 15-room villa in Tuscany (a property he neglected to declare during his presidential campaign).
In a BBC interview, Zelensky credited Monty Python as a primary comic influence, but he’s also said that his style is more Benny Hill. Vladislav Davidzon, the editor of The Odessa Review, told me, “His comedy was puerile, vulgar, and working-class—what the Russians call ‘bazaar humor.’”
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One oligarch told me that he watched Zelensky headline a birthday party for Viktor Yanukovych, the pro-Russian president, who would later be ousted from power during a revolution in 2014.
That year, after Putin’s annexation of Crimea, Kvartal 95 cut its lucrative ties with the Russian market. “I don’t want to have anything in common with Russia,” Zelensky told a friend. The company donated 1 million hryvnia to the ragtag Ukrainian army—a contribution that earned him splenetic denunciations from politicians in Moscow. A year later, Zelensky began creating Servant of the People. The new show exuded sincerity and idealism, but in retrospect it was a campaign announcement spread over three seasons. The series depicted a politician rising up against cartoonish oligarchs,
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‘Four days before Zelensky’s inauguration, the oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky boarded a private jet. The fourth-richest man in Ukraine—a figure both accused of ordering contract killings (which he denies) and hailed for fending off Vladimir Putin—was returning home from self-imposed exile in Israel to the city of Dnipro. The plane descended toward a skyline dominated by Kolomoisky’s monumental construction, the Menorah Center, seven marble-and-glass buildings in the shape of a candelabra: the largest Jewish community center in the world. Before returning to his native city, he told reporters that he “will not be the shadow leader of the country and the gray cardinal.” It was the sort of denial that suggestively implies everything it ostensibly refutes.
Kolomoisky’s return was triumphant, but his exit had been ignominious. The government had nationalized the bank he’d founded after discovering a $5.6 billion hole in its ledgers. Investigators reported that the bank had fraudulently loaned Kolomoisky and his business partner massive sums (both men deny this). A court in London froze $2 billion of their assets. When Kolomoisky departed Ukraine, he said he feared that the government would “invent” a criminal case against him.
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But with the election of Volodymyr Zelensky, Kolomoisky had every reason to believe that his most lucrative days in the country were ahead of him. The Zelensky presidency likely never would have happened without Kolomoisky’s not-so-hidden hand. It was Kolomoisky’s television network that broadcast Kvartal’s programs, including Servant of the People. And it was Kolomoisky’s network that touted Zelensky’s candidacy in its news coverage. Over the course of the campaign, Zelensky reportedly visited Israel and Switzerland 13 times, places where Kolomoisky happened to have homes.’
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‘Zelensky realized that he needed an American understanding of the situation confronting him, so he sought the advice of a former Obama-administration official named Amos Hochstein, who served on the board of supervisors for Ukraine’s state gas company. During a nearly three-hour session, Zelensky asked pointed questions; he found the mayor’s relationship with the president maddeningly unclear. Was Giuliani an official representative of the Trump administration or a freelance operator? Did Zelensky have a diplomatic obligation to meet with him? And why did Giuliani want to cause so much trouble for a presidency that hadn’t even begun?’
— [ YEAH YEAH A COMPLETELY UNCONNECTED IMPARTIAL ..WHO? A CLOSE ADVISER TO BIDEN 2011- 17 ] even Wiki has this :
‘While at the State Department, Hochstein worked as a close advisor to Vice-President Biden.[4] He served in the administration from 2011 to 2017.[5]
In March 2017, he joined Tellurian, a private Houston-based LNG company, where he served as Senior Vice President Marketing until his departure in September 2020.[6] He serves on the boards of the Atlantic Council and U.S.-India Business Council. Hochstein is a former member of the supervisory board of Ukrainian Naftogaz, from which he resigned in October 2020[7] by writing an opinion piece[8] that highlighted the return of sabotage in the form of corrupt forces.
On August 10, 2021, United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that he is appointing Hochstein as the Senior Advisor for Energy Security, and he was subsequently appointed Special Presidential Coordinator for Global Infrastructure and Energy Security.[9][10][11] He currently also leads Biden’s Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment.[12]
Biography
Hochstein was born in Israel, the child of American Jewish immigrants.[13][14] He began working as a foreign policy adviser to Democratic Party members of the U.S. government House Foreign Affairs Committee from 1994 to January 2001.[15][16][14] He identifies as a Modern Orthodox Jew.[17] He is married to Julie Rae Ringel; they have four children together[18] and live in Washington D.C. His wife works for the Georgetown University Continuing Education School in the executive leadership coaching program.[19] A dual U.S.-Israeli national, Hochstein served in the Israeli Defense Forces.[20] ‘
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So folks there we have the smoking gun , the bloody hand , the swag bag and the conspirators in two links. That is why the suffering Palestinians are daily murdered so that we are diverted from their failure. As the Fiddlers Roof comes tumbling down in their grand conspiracy against Russia and the gullible western audiences who have been trained by Covid lockstep obedience to blindly believe whatever the media presstitutes Ken and Barbies flirt into their eyeballs are fooled again. Will they ever learn?
Posted by: DunGroanin | Dec 2 2023 13:27 utc | 192
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