' The moon of Alabama,. An excellent, independent source of information on the war.
The failure of the Ukraine counter offensive.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/06/on-the-failure-of-the-ukrainian-counterattack.html
Reading the comments about him, I thought that a bishop had died. :what:
I hear rumors that there was no open funeral so that Freemason rites could be performed. Any comments?
There is an escalating conflict between the West and the Eurasian bloc. Throw in the Brics and the death of the dollar.
If you want to know which side Pakistan should be on, check the atlas.
In the past Nato has 'fought' people who were hopelessly under equipped with no air support. This is the first time that Nato is fighting an enemy with similar weaponry, or even better.
No more easy victories.
The offensive is politically driven. The West has made it clear that they want an offensive if aid is to continue. My understanding is that Zaluzhny was against it.
The flip side is that if this offensive fails, the West might lose hope and reduce aid to Ukraine. Either way, the West has...
An instructor at the US staff college ( I forget his name) wrote a book on how the US has not won a war since WW2, implying that the US did not win the Korean war. At the end of the war the communist forces had driven the US back to the DMZ. The introduction of Russian mig-15's, with Russian...
The UK can provide us with nothing that China can't, and China is much more trustworthy.
The 'engagement' is, my guess, to get Pakistan on board the US/ UK agenda for the coming conflict between the West and China/Russia.