ONE COULD BE AT A LOSS TO UNDERSTAND... WE, OF THE LOUNGE-CHAIR PEACE BRIGADE, COULD BE DERANGED ENOUGH TO THINK THAT CAPTAIN RUSKY HAS LEFT A WINDOW OPENED SO THAT FLIES CAN BE ATTRACTED TO THE MEAT GRINDER SO THEY WILL DROWN IN THE VINEGAR.

AS MENTIONED BEFORE, A GERMAN FRIEND SHOWED US HOW TO GET RID OF FRUIT-FLIES, BY HAVING A BOWL WITH SOME VINEGAR (ONE NEEDS MORE THAN VINEGAR, ETC) MIXED WITH A TOUCH OF DETERGENT AND WATER IN IT... IT WORKS.

The fight for the city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, which started in the summer of 2022, continues unabated. The battle has morphed from one of dubious immediate strategic benefit to Russia into one that has come to symbolize its war efforts. It also highlights the current deficiencies in Russia’s Armed Forces.

Symbolism is not new to warfare. The Battle of Stalingrad, although it had strategic calculations, was also important due to Hitler’s fixation on its symbolic value.

Furthermore, symbolic acts can have strategic impact beyond their immediate military concerns. The problem is when symbolism overtakes sensible strategy. 

Bakhmut, from a strictly military standpoint, does not significantly change the war. For Ukraine, however, Bakhmut’s defense is aligned with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s arguments that he will accept nothing less than the full restoration of his country.

Russia, despite superior military capabilities, has so far failed to take the city.

Urban warfare favors defenders because they possess an intimate knowledge of the terrain that aggressors don’t. Furthermore, when an army relies on artillery and tactical bombing to the extent that the Russian army does, it risks creating new enemy defensive positions in the rubble of the others they’ve destroyed.

This is a lesson the Russian army has had to relearn multiple times, especially in Chechnya, and forgotten once more. 

READ MORE:

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/03/18/the-battle-of-bakhmut-exposes-russias-fault-lines-a80515

WE KNOW THAT THE MOSCOW TIMES IS A NEWSPAPER THAT DOES NOT LIKE PUTIN, NOR RUSSIA, AND LEANS TOWARDS THE WEST.... (yet it is allowed to publish crap in Russia).

IN FACT, THE RUSSIAN ARMY DOES NOT WANT TO TAKE THE CITY, YET.... WE KNOW THAT RUSSIA HAS LEFT ONE ROAD IN AND OUT OF THIS PLACE, WHICH COULD BE SIMPLY CLOSED BY SERIOUS PRECISION BOMBING. RUSSIA USES THIS PLACE LIKE A MAGNET TO DRAW MORE UKRAINIAN TROOPS IN ONE SPOT, WHERE THE SAID UKRAINIAN TROOPS ARE DECIMATED LIKE FLIES....

SEE MORE OF THE MOSCOW TIMES RUBBISH...:

A part of Valdai National Park in northwestern Russia has been closed to visitors since an investigation revealed that President Vladimir Putin and his alleged mistress own property in the area, the independent Meduza news website reported Friday. 

Authorities announced that the specially protected zone of the national park had been expanded due to the “worsening ecological condition of Valdai Lake” on March 3, just three days after independent media outlet Proekt’s viral investigation was released. 

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/03/17/national-park-partially-closes-after-viral-investigation-into-putins-mansion-a80526

THE PICTURE IS THAT OF CASTLE THAT DOES NOT BELONG TO PUTIN BUT HEY? (The Iversky monastery on one of the islands of Lake Valdai.)

NOW IF YOU ARE A WAGNERIAN (THE RUSSIAN MERCENARY UNIT) YOU WOULD PLAY YOUR PART AS THE VINEGAR/DETERGENT/WATER BOWL WITH UTTER CONTEMPT FOR THE FLIES.....

I BELIEVE YOU UNDERSTAND... (ACCORDING TO SOME SERIOUS MILITARY ANALYSTS, THE KIEV REGIME HAS LOST MORE THAN 70,000 SOLDIERS IN THIS SINGLE HELL-HOLE WHICH ZELENSKYY WANTS TO DEFEND BY SENDING IN "MORE TROOPS" TO THE LAST UKRAINIAN)....

FREE JULIAN ASSANGE NOW....