Western media have finally change course. They are now admitting that the much promoted Ukrainian counter-offensive has failed. In fact, the acknowledge that it never had a chance to win in the first place.
The Hill, the Washington Post and CNN now agree that the Ukrainian army will never achieve its aims.
western MSM has a rare encounter with reality!
That makes it difficult for the Biden administration to get Congress approval for $24 billion in additional ‘aid’ to Ukraine. It does not make sense to pay for a cause that is evidently lost.
b seems overly hopeful regarding the rationality of US congress, but i think hes right- why would we throw more money at them, US politicians have made it clear they do not support bringing Ukraine into NATO if they do not win this conflict. of course, US politicians are prone to lying and misleading
Nothing has come from the ‘peace conference’ which Saudi Arabia arranged on Ukraine’s behalf
lol. lmao even. props to big dog MBS for trying
Despite the onslaught of bad news the Ukrainian army is still trying to take Russian positions in the south and east of Ukraine. But it simply does not have enough in men and material to break through the lines.
Even if they would manage to get a local breakthrough there are not enough reserves to push for the necessary follow up. Just one of the NATO trained brigades has still been held back. All others have been mauled in their various deployment zones.
nothing has changed it seems
In the northeast around Kupyansk the Russians have started their own offensive which has the Ukrainians on the run. Ukraine has ordered the evacuation of the area
But Kupyansk is a Russian city and people refuse to leave.
show this to the libs claiming Russians are committing genocide in the regions they capture. curious that these civilians are content with Russian occupation when you believe what western media claims
The Russian campaign is slowly speeding up. As the Ukrainian Strana.news reports (machine translation):
Also in Ukraine, it is recorded that from Kupyansk to Bakhmut, Russia has increased the number of attacks.
"Over the past month, the total number of attacks in the Kupyansk, Limansky and Bakhmut directions has grown significantly. In July, during the week there were 6-6.5 thousand attacks, during the last week-9 thousand attacks, " - said the representative of the National Guard Ruslan Muzychuk.
According to him, the Russian Federation does not experience “shell hunger”.
Aviation is also actively used, and over the past few weeks, more than 50 air attacks have been taking place every day, and sometimes more than 80.
That is bad news for the Ukrainian side which lacks the reserves to counter the Russian onslaught. There are also less weapons coming in from the West. F-16 fighter jets will be delayed for another nine months due to training issues. Tanks and other material are in short supply.
these supply issues sure bode well for the west’s performance in WW3 
Strana also report of an interview with a knowledgeable Ukrainian soldier (machine translation):
Continuing the topic of the situation at the front, an interesting interview was given by a Ukrainian sniper fighting near Bakhmut with the call sign “Grandfather”. On the air of political scientist Yuri Romanenko, he was introduced as Konstantin Proshinsky (this is a pseudonym).
The fighter spoke in detail about his vision of the situation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Russian army.
- Mobilization. In his opinion, it is conducted incorrectly. Recruits are sent to the front who have never been trained, and they are often over 50 years old and with a whole bunch of diseases.
- No rotation. The soldier says that “the same brigades” are fighting at the front, and people are not taken out of the front line for six months or more. Whereas by Western standards, they can be kept in a war zone for no more than three months.
- Behavior of mid-and high-level commanders. According to Proshinsky, many of them are trying to arrange a “mini-Stalingrad” on the positions, forcing them to go into frontal assaults on well-fortified Russian positions.
- The Russian Army began to fight better.
- Proshinsky believes that Russia has not yet used much of what it has against Ukraine.
The soldier thinks that the Russians will not move from their positions and that a stalemate peace like in Korea would be the end result.
UAF in real dire times— recruiting the elderly, poor logistics, engaging the enemy at inopportune times, and Russia has yet to waver
I believe that to be wrong. Russia’s aim is to liberate at least the four regions that it has claimed for itself. For political reasons it can not stop before that is done.
Should the Ukraine continue to fight after that, Russia is likely to set new aims and take more land.
more editorializing, but it doesnt seem unreasonable. i thought Russia would stick to its original goal of Donetsk and Luhansk, but if Zaporizhzhia and Kherson are receptive to Russian governance, it would be foolish for Russia to give them up
Two other bits on the main page, for context of who it writing at this domain:
^^ That’s currently in the top article.
And then another has this headline:
Hunter Biden is a corrupt sex pest that would be in jail a long time ago if he wasn’t the son of the president.
The World Bank is a monoplistic financial institution of the imperial core/triad, also known as “the western nations”. It’s primary purpose, along with the IMF, is financial imperialism of the third world.
Please. PLEASE. I don’t give a shit about Joe and Hunter’s grift in Ukraine, good on them, get that bread, It would just be so so so fucking satisfying to watch the Libs tie themselves in knots trying to avoid the cognitive dissonance of admitting that their guy was up to his ears in corruption.
yeah, we know. the current american warchief is a liberal. so the reactionaries hate him too. we hate all american warchiefs. obama, bush, biden. doesn’t matter really.
we know better than any of you that if Trump were president people like the MoA guy would stand a good chance of actually supporting the ukraine war. why? because liberals were bloodthirsty towards syrians and libyans just because obama was in charge of those wars. it’s a feature of american culture that americans are more concerned about the personality of the warlord than wether there is a war. cnn, msnbc, npr, and all liberal capitalist media would have continued to talk about ukraine’s nazi problem if it was Trump who was supporting them.
that said, lmao at anyone who wants to protect their favorite oligarch’s failson. wearing party hackery on their sleeve like that is quite revealing.
I dunno what you’re even arguing. I commented that he’s a failson a few days back, saying that at least he fucks and does drugs, living it up. I don’t care about these people.
you could have stopped at MoA’s cringe anti-woke posting, yet you have to wear the truth on your sleeve as well:
comments are cheap. some comments are more revealing than others.
You included a quote that wasn’t me. What the fuck are you on? I just woke up (PST), so sorry if I’m not following a thread.
And fuck your sleeves. I thought about joining hexbear when I learned that it was a chapo refuge, but I went with my instance because I’m a computer nerd. I dunno your in-jokes and bullshit, so I’m prolly missing something. I’m a Leftist who isn’t phased by you’re being a fucktard. I’m gonna go get breakfast. Eat my ass.
let me help you find your own comment
i don’t really care if you think hunter biden is ‘at least cool’ for ‘doing drugs’. drug prohibition is for the poors. every rich oligarch in america is on various types of cocaine. the bidens earned money by putting themselves at the head of companies seized by their political influence as american oligarchs. they are now using the american war machine to defend that cashline. that you think criticizing the bidens is somehow a bad thing in itself is quite revealing.
the fact is that since the ukraine war is being led by the american liberals, the reactionaries have had a good record of their ineptitude. and inept they have been. that’s all we use these sources for: understanding the front. I hate people like alexander mercouris and MoA because they are reactionaries. you think they are untrustworthy because they hate the american oligarchs you favor.
the sleeves are yours. you’re the one wearing them. and the word ‘liberal’ are written all over them.
I never suggested such. I don’t give a fuck about them.
Fuck liberals and fuck you for calling me one. I may not be as steeped in Leftist culture as you (I freely admit to not recognizing some of your references), but I’m far from a center-right, center-left, centrist dem lib bullshitter. I want the same things you do (more or less), which is a reasonable system where we take care of people and it’s not possible to exploit others. I may not be able to articulate some ideas that you can, but I found myself on this side only during the pan when previously I was a lib. Fuck you if you fault me for still finding my way.
People here are already aware of what places like MoA are. We’ve discussed, litigated, and straight up joked about their brainworms. We’ve used them in limited capacity nonetheless, because there’s a tendency in American wars for the political affiliation of the president to warp coverage entirely. The Iraq and Afghanistan Wars were lauded by conservative and denounced by liberal media. The Syria and Libya Wars were, likewise, lauded by liberals and denounced by conservatives. This sort of partisan hackery means that, sometimes, the other side of the aisle has a vested interest in covering failures of American foreign policy in ways that are closer to the truth. Yet the word closer is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. The right has it’s institutional spinsters and is also full of grifters. The same incentives are there for them to add in their editorializing of the facts, to push their agenda. Moreover, the American right wing is truly enamoured with Russia as some sort of conservative meccah, with which they can make common cause against liberals, the jews, the globalists, and, ultimately, China.
These are all things we are perfectly aware of. To a more intimate degree than you do. We are the ones reading these battlefront reports and rolling our eyes when someone says ‘actually Germany is deindustrializing because they are extreme left environmentalists’. Which is why you’ve come across as a asshole liberal who is only interested in bashing leftists. And also because you’ve cited MoA’s post about the Bidens being corrupt something to be shocked at. Of course they are corrupt. Biden is the Reagan of financialization, he’s the architect of Delaware as a fiscal paradise. He didn’t get where he did for nothing.
You might think you pwned me, but I’m not interested in your opinion because you’ve been a dick. I’m not reading this reply because I don’t give a fuck about your opinion.