Now that the Battle of Bakhmut is over everyone is wondering what the next step will be in this war.\u00a0 Currently there have been incursions into Russia proper by Ukrainian forces.\u00a0 It is being claimed by the Ukrainians that the attackers are Russian partisans who want to overthrow Putin\u2019s government.\u00a0 But a number of the attackers were captured and these turned out to be Ukrainians.<\/p>\n
In the last few weeks there has been a significant increase in missile and drone attacks by both sides.\u00a0 Drone attacks on Moscow and missile attacks in Kiev have become a common occurrence.\u00a0 Today the word is the Russians hit the Ukrainian Defense Intelligence headquarters to take out the Ukrainian and Western brains behind the drone attacks on Moscow.\u00a0 Now whether they succeeded in destroying the headquarters or decapitating the military intelligence organization is completely unknown.\u00a0 What is clear is that this is all moving toward an escalated war where more than just the front-line troops are impacted.<\/p>\n
The Russians have been concentrating on disrupting the anticipated \u201cspring\u201d offensive.\u00a0 The most notable effort has been a string of missile attacks on large ammunition depots, some apparently so enormous that seismic readings as high as 3.5 on the Richter Scale have been detected.\u00a0 But they\u2019ve also been attacking large troop emplacements.<\/p>\n
In the last few weeks, the western press has been hinting that the spring offensive may not provide a significant change in the status quo and that maybe it\u2019s time for a negotiated settlement.\u00a0 But there\u2019s no indication by either side that negotiations are even possible.<\/p>\n
So, it looks like sooner or later we\u2019re going to hear about full-scale military operations with the battle tanks and other equipment that the West has donated and with the troops they trained over the last six months.\u00a0 One thing that can be said is that this will be the decisive series of battles of the war.\u00a0 The Ukrainians will be expending the last reserves of their prime manpower.\u00a0 If they are to deal a decisive defeat to the Russians it will have to be now.\u00a0 Otherwise, they will be without the troops and even without the artillery ammunition they would need to continue the war against the larger and better equipped Russian forces.<\/p>\n
I expect that the Russians will be hunkering down behind their defensive works and will make the Ukrainians pay very dearly for a frontal assault on these positions.\u00a0 But without a doubt if the Ukrainians go all out to break through these lines the casualties on both sides will be enormous.\u00a0 So, what we will see is a reenactment of the kinds of battles they fought in World War I; massive artillery bombardment and frontal assaults on heavily reinforced positions.\u00a0 But added to this will be massive tank attacks by the Ukrainians and modern missile and drone attacks by both sides.<\/p>\n
So, either way this goes the Slavic peoples are about to experience a tragic blood-letting.\u00a0 And essentially the US State Department and the CIA are the authors of this tragedy.\u00a0 It will be interesting what the fruits of this decision will be for us.\u00a0 We handed the Ukrainians tens of billions of dollars\u2019 worth of weaponry.\u00a0 I wonder which of our enemies will be provided with Russian weapons to pay us back.\u00a0 I hate to think of the Mexican drug cartels with several billion dollars\u2019 worth of drones and missiles loose inside of our non-existent southern border.\u00a0 But that\u2019s a distinct possibility.\u00a0 And who will we have to blame but our own government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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