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‘We Cannot Win’ Says Top Russian Commander
(www.kyivpost.com)
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I agree with you in terms of the dysfunction of Ukrainian political strategy surrounding Bakhmut. Politicians w/ no military planning experience intervening in what was previously a well-run campaign to achieve a symbolic victory against the advice of their own generals and even western advisors.
The west hasn't been much better. There was an actual article in WaPo that flat out said that the west knew that Ukraine didn't have enough equipment to do the offensive, but pushed them into it anyways because they thought their motivation and gumption would make up for it:
This is not how you fight a war.
If that's their actual justification rather than just what they tell the media then it is flabbergastingly incompetent.
Maybe they just didn't want to deplete their own stocks and don't really care how the counteroffensive goes as long as they can continue selling weapons but then there are flaws in that logic, too, since it degrades the idea of invincibility and total technological superiorty that the western MIC have tried hard to portray in recent years. I don't know, maybe there are just idiots in the top brass of the US political-military institutions but you'd think they'd be more smart than thinking "gumption" can carry the day.