Ukraine Is Bleeding Out

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Naked Capitalism: Ukraine: Bleeding Out 

Even for well-reported 20th century wars, decades later, historians are still seeking to improve our understanding of them. With the Ukraine conflict, we’re in the midst of the unprecedented experience of being able to discern a remarkably high proportion of what is afoot, albeit with a great deal of noise in the signal between aggressive propagandizing and issues of sourcing with various purported close-to-the-action accounts. 

But the war has gone at a seemingly slow pace, due to Russia shifting strategy to attrition (rather than trying to force negotiations), the time required to break extremely well-fortified lines (without incurring huge and unnecessary human costs), and Russia choosing to grind down other elements of Ukraine’s military, notably its air defenses. That’s lead commentators to focus on battles and even hot spots on the line of contact, in part because that’s where the action has been, in part because close observers hope they’ll be able to find clues of when and where the fighting might shift into bigger, more decisive-looking campaigns.  

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WNU Editor: I am not a fan of the previous Ukrainian government (pre-2014 revolution), but former Ukrainian prime minister Nikolai Azarov observation is becoming more and more accurate with each passing day .... Zelensky Has Turned Ukraine Into 'New Afghanistan' - Former PM (Sputnik).