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2022-03-23 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Larry C. Johnson: ‘The Ukrainian Army Has Been Defeated. What's Left Is Mop-Up’

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Posted by Whereck Sloluger6167 2022-03-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [15 views ] Top

#1 Non-stop antisemitism in the articles comments. Very hard core...

Posted by borgboy 2022-03-23 00:54|| 2022-03-23 00:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Larry C. Johnson– Doug is great analyst but I disagree with him—I don’t think there is anyone in the Biden Administration that is smart enough to think and plan in those strategic terms.

An assessment beyond question.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-23 01:31|| 2022-03-23 01:31|| Front Page Top

#3 #1 Non-stop antisemitism in the articles comments. Very hard core...

Consider the mast head

Posted by badanov 2022-03-23 01:39|| 2022-03-23 01:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Is this true? If so then why aren't we hearing any of this analysis from our media? Are they all just shills for the Ukrainian Army?

"The scale and scope of the Russian attack is remarkable. They captured territory in three weeks that is larger than the land mass of the United Kingdom. They then proceeded to carry out targeted attacks on key cities and military installations. We have not seen a single instance of a Ukrainian regiment or brigade size unit attacking and defeating a comparable Russian unit. Instead, the Russians have split the Ukrainian Army into fragments and cut their lines of communication.

"The Russians are consolidating their control of Mariupol and have secured all approaches on the Black Sea. Ukraine is now cut off in the South and the North."

Posted by Sluter Grumble5654 2022-03-23 02:52|| 2022-03-23 02:52|| Front Page Top

#5 This is definitely true:

"I would note that the U.S. had a tougher time capturing this much territory in Iraq in 2003 while fighting against a far inferior, less capable military force. If anything, this Russian operation should scare the hell out of U.S. military and political leaders.

The really big news came this week with the Russian missile strikes on what are de facto NATO bases in Yavoriv and Zhytomyr. NATO conducted cyber security training at Zhytomyr in September 2018 and described Ukraine as a “NATO partner.” Zhytomyr was destroyed with hypersonic missiles on Saturday. Yavoriv suffered a similar fate last Sunday. It was the primary training and logistics center that NATO and EUCOM used to supply fighters and weapons to Ukraine. A large number of the military and civilian personnel at that base became casualties.

"Not only is Russia striking and destroying bases used by NATO regularly since 2015, but there was no air raid warning and there was no shutdown of the attacking missiles."

Posted by Sluter Grumble5654 2022-03-23 02:56|| 2022-03-23 02:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Unz Report us definitely full of anti-semitransparent, but it doesn't matter where this analysis appeared. What Larry Johnson is saying is correct. I agree totally with the above statements, also with this political and economic assessment of Biden's strategy:

There is an air of desperation in Washington. Besides trying ban all things Russian, the Biden Administration is trying to bully China, India and Saudi Arabia. I do not see any of those countries falling into line. I believe the Biden crew made a fatal mistake by trying to demonize all things and all people Russian. If anything, this is uniting the Russian people behind Putin and they are ready to dig in for a long struggle.

I am shocked at the miscalculation in thinking economic sanctions on Russia would bring them to their knees. The opposite is true. Russia is self-sufficient and is not dependent on imports. Its exports are critical to the economic well-being of the West. If they withhold wheat, potash, gas, oil, palladium, finished nickel and other key minerals from the West, the European and U.S. economies will be savaged. And this attempt to coerce Russia with sanctions has now made it very likely that the U.S. dollar’s role as the international reserve currency will show up in the dustbin of history.

Posted by Muggsy Whinegum5809 2022-03-23 03:08|| 2022-03-23 03:08|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ correct that first sentence to read, "Unz Report is definitely full of anti-semitism"

Posted by Muggsy Whinegum5809 2022-03-23 03:10|| 2022-03-23 03:10|| Front Page Top

#8 More Putin Pap.

The vaunted Russian Army can't find its way around without road signs.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-03-23 06:19|| 2022-03-23 06:19|| Front Page Top

#9 Russian losses in Ukraine exceed Soviet losses in Afghanistan

Posted by Skidmark 2022-03-23 06:24|| 2022-03-23 06:24|| Front Page Top

#10 Ukrainian minister says their military is in dire straits, will run out of weapons within two weeks. British commander says the Ukrainian troops are using up a week's worth of weapons every 20 hours.

Posted by Titus Theath2963 2022-03-23 07:39|| 2022-03-23 07:39|| Front Page Top

#11 ^^ Movie quote:

"...pretty sophisticated for a bunch of half-assed mountain boys."

Posted by badanov 2022-03-23 07:41|| 2022-03-23 07:41|| Front Page Top

#12 Ukraine calls on Germany and France for help amid fears it is running out of the weapons needed to fight off Russian invasion
- Ukraine has called on France and Germany to supply it with more weapons
- The military only has two weeks before it uses up its supply of anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles, foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba has said
- Ukraine is getting through a week’s worth of supplies in just 20 hours

Posted by Titus Theath2963 2022-03-23 07:46|| 2022-03-23 07:46|| Front Page Top

#13 And people wondered why the Russians weren't in such a hurry, but at the drop of a hat....

Posted by DooDahMan 2022-03-23 08:25|| 2022-03-23 08:25|| Front Page Top

#14 ^ If you think this is going as planned, you oughtta apply for Putin's food taster

Posted by Frank G 2022-03-23 08:42|| 2022-03-23 08:42|| Front Page Top

#15 Oh, look, an anonymous coward is raging against strawmen entirely of his own invention.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-03-23 09:40|| 2022-03-23 09:40|| Front Page Top

#16 The troll at #15 obviously knows nobody here, nor anything about them. It must frustrate the creature that nobody here gives a sh*t what it says.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-23 10:00|| 2022-03-23 10:00|| Front Page Top

#17 God has his own plan and common sense! Just enjoy the show.

Posted by Greng Black3494 2022-03-23 10:05|| 2022-03-23 10:05|| Front Page Top

#18 one month of Russian invasion and the only big city the Russians have is Mariupol

Posted by Lord Garth 2022-03-23 11:18|| 2022-03-23 11:18|| Front Page Top

#19 —I don’t think there is anyone in the Biden Administration that is smart enough to think and plan in those strategic terms.

In addition, this administration is inept, has either bad policies or none. As long as they are spending all their time covering up past crimes and corruption and blinded by their empty "woke" ideology, little will change unless there is a red-wave tsunami in the voting booth in 2022 and 2024.

Posted by JohnQC 2022-03-23 11:36|| 2022-03-23 11:36|| Front Page Top

#20 What is a USA conservative now?

Oh dear. Point of information, my dear Omaing Stalag1261: the country name is USA or America. When used as a descriptor or adjective, the proper form is always American., to form an American conservative — grammatically comparable to a Russian conservative, though differing dramatically in key philosophical and behavioral characteristics. No educated speaker of English would make that mistake. It weakens your insult dreadfully when you write so — you really don’t intend your readers to smile with pity that you were dragged off to the troll farm before completing the basic education, when they should be shaking in impotent fury.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-03-23 13:01|| 2022-03-23 13:01|| Front Page Top

#21 I don't know if he's an American Conservative or not but Niall Ferguson is right of center and he basically agrees with Larry Johnson's analysis. The Biden administration seems to be making a huge bet on an extremely unlikely scenario. That's definitely not conservative or wise.

Posted by Grang Sholuger4168 2022-03-23 13:11|| 2022-03-23 13:11|| Front Page Top

#22 You mean the Biden administration that is ensuring the program to create a nuclear Islamic Republic of Iran sends billions to Russia at the same time?

They're not betting against Russia.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-03-23 13:13|| 2022-03-23 13:13|| Front Page Top

#23 No the bet seems to be that they can extend the war for a long time, bleed Russia dry and provoke a second Russian Revolution. Seems really far fetched to put it mildly. I agree with Ferguson and the other western scholars who say this strategy is half-baked.

Posted by Grang Sholuger4168 2022-03-23 13:20|| 2022-03-23 13:20|| Front Page Top

#24 "the U.S. had a tougher time capturing this much territory in Iraq in 2003 while fighting against a far inferior, less capable military force."

This made me laugh. Comparing a brutal attack into a neighbor with a closely watched don't hurt civilians attack on the far side of the globe is hardly comparing apples to apples.

Posted by ruprecht 2022-03-23 19:00|| 2022-03-23 19:00|| Front Page Top

#25 Spot on:

"There is an air of desperation in Washington. Besides trying ban all things Russian, the Biden Administration is trying to bully China, India and Saudi Arabia. I do not see any of those countries falling into line."

Yes, this is desperation. The Indians tell Biden to pound sand and the Saudis don't even pick up the phone when Biden calls.

"I believe the Biden crew made a fatal mistake by trying to demonize all things and all people Russian. If anything, this is uniting the Russian people behind Putin and they are ready to dig in for a long struggle."

I have no idea where they got the idea that all of Russia is just burning to rise up and replace Putin with... who? Kasparov the Jew? Browder the American wannabe oligarch? Who the hell shapes their understanding of Russia -- Nikole Hannah-Jones?

Posted by Bubba Dribble5816 2022-03-23 19:09|| 2022-03-23 19:09|| Front Page Top

#26 Larry C Johnson is a veteran of the CIA and the State Department’

Got to be honest then right?

Posted by Woodrow 2022-03-23 19:37|| 2022-03-23 19:37|| Front Page Top

#27 no idea where they got the idea that all of Russia is just burning to rise up and replace Putin with... who? Kasparov the Jew? Browder the American wannabe oligarch? Who the hell shapes their understanding of Russia -- Nikole Hannah-Jones?

Seriously, they probably listened to fairy tales told them by Victoria Nuland the Coup-Mistress and Ambassador Michael "Fuck-town" McFaul:

MISTER MCFAHK GOES TO FUCKBERG:
THE CONTINUING SAGA OF AMBASSADOR MICHAEL MCFAUL’S EPIC STRUGGLE WITH LANGUAGE
By Mark Ames

Posted by Sonny Jaque9251 2022-03-23 19:46|| 2022-03-23 19:46|| Front Page Top

#28 This is the caliber of Biden's diplomatic and Russia experts. Michael McFahk, so incompetent that half of Russian twitter trolled him when he used the Russian word for 'fuck' as part of his own imbecilic made-up slangy pseudo-contraction for Yekaterinburg.

Mark Ames recounts:
Earlier this month, on the eve of Independence Day, McFaul cheerfully tweeted out to his 26,000+ followers: “I’ll be in Yekaterinburg for the InnoProm Exhibition.”

Only problem is, Amb. McFaul didn’t write “Yekaterinburg.” For some reason, McFaul got the brilliant idea of replacing “Yekaterinburg” with “Yoburg” (Ёбург), meaning “Fuckberg,” or “Fuckville.”

He thought he was being colloquial and in-the-know. Instead, he was being an idiot. So the tweet from the US Ambassador to Russia cheerfully reads: “Hey I’m heading to Fuckberg to the InnoProm Exhibition”

And with that tweet, McFaul launched a New Cold War — or as Newsru.com reported in an article headlined “Ambassador McFaul Forced To Apologize Over ‘Fuckberg’”:

“The American Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, once again had to apologize for his use of Russian language, which he’s been having difficulty with lately.”

And then came the tweets.

One Russian tweeter @engineee replied earnestly:
“Michael, ‘YoBurg’ is an offensive lowlife’s word, you shouldn’t use it.”

Self-hating Russian @microzmija tweeted:
“Michael, you called that Urals shithole Sverdlovsk right!” [Sverdlovsk was the Communist-era name of Yekaterinburg.]

No doubt the most poignant tweet of all, the one favored by Newsru.com and others, came from some Russian D&D dweeb @dmitry_denb who uses an Alexander Nevsky avatar. He replied simply:
“You’re the fuckberg, MacFahk!”

Finally, @Alexey_Kovalev tweeted to McFaul in English:
“I love that US Ambassador to Russia @McFaul is referring to Yekaterinburg as Ёбург, colloquial name with horny overtones (lit. Fuckville).”

Posted by Sonny Jaque9251 2022-03-23 20:00|| 2022-03-23 20:00|| Front Page Top

#29 In Homicide: Life on the Street, they referred to many of the perps and vics as "yos and yoettes."

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-23 21:05|| 2022-03-23 21:05|| Front Page Top

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