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Is Putin’s Goody Two Shoes Behavior with his “Limited Operation” Blowing up in his face?

The Kremlin’s attempt to fight a war with minimal resources and no commitment to disrupt the government and functioning of Western Ukraine and the weapons flowing in from the US and NATO now brings the humiliation of having Ukrainian troops break through Russia’s thinly defended line in the Kharkov region of Eastern Ukraine.

 

Paul Craig Roberts

 

 

I would be surprised if Russia, by far the superior power, doesn’t quickly regain control over the military situation in Donbass. But the Ukrainian success, no matter how limited or temporary, has doomed Putin’s “limited operation,” which, as I have emphasized, was doomed from the beginning.

It was doomed from the beginning by the Kremlin’s ridiculous assumption that Washington would permit the operation to be limited. The widening of the war was guaranteed. The fact that the war has widened is now understood by Russian TV hosts who say the proxy war in Ukraine between the US and Russia is over and Russia now faces a real direct war with the US and its NATO puppets. For Russia to continue in Ukraine, the Kremlin must fight a real war and knock out the government in Kiev and the governmental and civilian infrastructure that permits Ukraine to conduct war without Russian interference and which permits supply avenues for ever more dangerous Western weapons to be acquired by Ukraine. It is stunning that Putin thought he could drive Ukrainian troops out of Donbass and then sign an agreement ending the conflict.

The Ukrainian success in overrunning Russian positions will widen the war further.

 

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https://www.unz.com/proberts/is-putins-goody-two-shoes-behavior-with-his-limited-operation-blowing-up-in-his-face/

 

PUTIN IS NO FOOL. HE KNEW EXACTLY WHAT WAS GOING TO COME. HE'S PROVING THAT RUSSIA'S ARSENAL IS SUPERIOR TO THOSE OF THE US/NATO/UK/EU THAT ARE DEPLETING THEIR RESERVES OF STUFF. HE COULD HAVE HOPED FOR A SETTLEMENT/PEACE PROCESS IN APRIL THOUGH BUT WE KNOW THE US THROUGH BORIS JOHNSON AND THE BIG BLACK GUY WHO HAD LED TROOPS IN COMBAT (HE LOST ALL THE WAR) THE EMPIRE BLOCKED ANY DEAL. IF ZELENSKY WAS SMART HE WOULD DEFY THE US AND MAKE A DEAL NOW — BUT HE'S UNINTELLIGENT. ONE OF THE PROBLEM FACED BY RUSSIA WAS TO MINIMISE THE "INNOCENT" POPULATION VICTIMS. SO FAR SO GOOD-ISH. THE CONCENTRATION OF RUSSIAN/UKRAINIAN IS UNEVER THROUGH UKRAINE. ZELENSKY SEE THEM AS "TRAITORS" (TEACHERS, PUBLIC SERVANTS, ETC). HE WANTS TO PUNISH THEM, PUTIN DOES NOT WANT TO HURT THEM. THUS SO FAR, THE UKRAINIAN MILITARY IS TAKING ALL THE "BAFFES*" (SLAPS). THE RETREAT BY THE RUSSIANS CAME AT A GREAT COST TO THE UKRAINIAN ARMY.

 

 

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*Jules Letambour told me that this is pejorative slang for "heavy slaps on the face"

generously holding back……..

White House warns of ‘Putin’s military potential’

 

National Security Council spokesman Kirby urges caution amid glee over Ukraine developments 

While himself enthusiastic about the reported advancements by the Ukrainian military in Kharkov Region, White House National Security spokesman John Kirby on Tuesday urged reporters not to lose sight of Russia’s military potential.

“They clearly still have a military capable of inflicting great damage and casualties,” Kirby told reporters at a briefing on Tuesday afternoon. For all the problems the Russians may have faced in Ukraine, their military is “still very large and very powerful” and Russian President Vladimir Putin “still has an awful lot of military capacity left at his disposal, not just to be used in Ukraine, but potentially elsewhere.”

Ukrainian forces moved into areas north and east of Kharkov last week, with President Vladimir Zelensky claiming gains of 2,000 square kilometers. Moscow claimed the Russian troops that previously held the strategically important city of Izyum were “redeployed.”

Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Olga Stefanishyna told France 24 on Tuesday that the Kharkov operation was a “turning point” not just of the fighting since February, but of “the war that started in the spring of 2014,” referring to Kiev’s efforts to suppress the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics in the aftermath of the US-backed coup.

Earlier in the day, appearing on ABC’s Good Morning America, Kirby expressed confidence that Kiev could maintain the pace of operations, noting that “they’ve planned this counteroffensive pretty carefully.”

According to the New York Times, British and US military officials worked together with Ukraine’s general staff to plan the counterattack. The new US defense attache in Kiev, Brigadier-General Garrick Harmon, “began having daily sessions with Ukraine’s top officers” in the run-up to the counteroffensive, the paper reported on Tuesday. 

“We did do some modeling and some tabletop exercises,”Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl told the Times in a telephone interview. “That set of exercises suggested that certain avenues for a counteroffensive were likely to be more successful than others. We provided that advice, and then the Ukrainians internalized that and made their own decision.”

The US also provided Ukraine with intelligence about Russian positions, pointing out the front in the northeast was weaker than in the south, Kahl said. Kiev’s major offensive in the south, aiming for Kherson, has not seen significant progress.

 

 

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https://www.rt.com/russia/562739-white-house-warns-of-putin/

 

 

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