5/01/2022

Ukraine - Media war, who is winning, who is losing

Ukraine has acknowledged losing control of some towns and villages there since the assault began last week, but says that Moscow's gains have come at a massive cost to a Russian force already worn down from its earlier defeat near the capital.

"We have serious losses, but the Russians' losses are much much bigger ... They have colossal losses," presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych said, without elaborating. Western officials said that Russia had been suffering fewer casualties after narrowing the scale of its invasion, but numbers were still "quite high".

Ukrainian officials said that Russia was pounding the whole frontline in the eastern Donetsk region with rockets, artillery, mortar bombs and aircraft to stop the Ukrainians from regrouping.   CNA

Listening to the western media, the narrative is that the Russians are suffering heavy losses, low morale, now even fatigue after 2 months of playing war games in Ukraine. The Americans were in Vietnam for 30 years before giving up, oops, chased out of Vietnam, no fatigue? Then they spent another 20 years massacring Afghan tribesmen with only rifles, before fatigue set in, and after spending US$3 trillion in the genocide of Afghanistan.

How could anyone believe that the Russians are suffering from fatigue when what they were doing in Ukraine were like playing war games on computers. They just send in the bombs, missiles, rockets, drones etc to flatten the enemy position before moving in to mop up the place and clear he dead bodies.

In traditional conventional war, the attackers would suffered big losses trying to take a heavily defended position as they needed a force 3 times that of the defender to win a battle. The price for victory was heavy. Today's warfare is very different. The attackers used technology to attack, fire power, heavy bombarbments before going in for the clean up. How could the Russians be suffering heavy losses when they are sitting in their camps, in Russia, and flying bombs and missiles over to Ukraine?

Putin is now playing the mouse and cat game, sitting there and waiting to pounce on the rats hiding in Mariupol. No one can leave without the approval of the Russians. As for Kiev and other big cities, Putin is sparing them because of the civilian casualties he is trying to prevent. But he could hit them as and when he likes, with precision bombs from the air. No need to send in the foot soldiers or pilots. How can there be heavy casualties on his side when he is sending in the bombs? Kiev is still not destroyed not because the Ukrainians fought bravely, but because Putin is holding his fire. But when Kiev or Zelensky starts to misbehave, more missiles would arrive in Kiev to tell him to behave.

Putin is also prepare to sit out this war for as long as he could. Time is on his side. Everyday the war is going on, everyday the Ukrainians would suffer from a dysfunctioning economy and social life. Europe too cannot afford to have this war going on for more months and years. Their economies too would suffer immensely, and so would their people. Without Russian oil and gas, coal and food and essential supplies, inflation in Europe would become too prohibitive and unsustainable.

Putin need not risk his men in this war. Just keep the lid on, and the pressure inside the pressure cooker will cook the Ukrainians and the Nato mercenaries holing up in Mariupol. No matter what the western media claimed that Ukraine is winning, it is an absolute lie. Ukraine and Ukrainians would be the absolute losers in this war. Period.

8 comments:

  1. Russian TV is preparing Russians for a nuclear war against Europe:

    'I like the Fallout video games series, but this isn’t real life. As the Russians say – and this is true – there is not even any evidence that if Russia started firing nukes, the West would even respond. They would more likely just start crying and looking for a safe space for their snowflakes.'

    https://www.unz.com/aanglin/russian-tv-is-talking-very-frankly-about-nuclear-war-while-america-stands-with-ukranus/

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  2. Channel News America reported that the USA and the West are now accusing Russia of spreading misinformation. Now, that is really news coming from the most prolific fake news spreader in history. They even stared a war in Iraq based on fabricated, invented and intentional misinformed news.

    Can you even believe that Russia is spreading misinformation when most of the people understanding Russian lives in Russia and Ukraine? Didn't they already took out RT reporting the truth in English?

    If Russia is doing that well in spreading misinformation, it means that the USA and the West are losing the media information war, pure and simple. If the USA and the West are winning the media war, they will just keep quiet and continue to generate misinformation without a care for what the Russians are doing. Why should they upset the applecart?

    Now that they are claiming the Russians are spreading misinformation, does that not also indicate that all the good news about Ukraine winning and about Russia losing is just not true and is being exposed by pro-Russian narratives all over social media? That must have hit a raw nerve. The sudden realisation that CNN and other Western MSM are losing viewership must have shaken their belief that continuous fabrication of one sided good news in boosting the morale of the Ukrainians is not selling to those who seek the truth elsewhere on social media.

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  3. Conspiracy theory: Ukraine influencer aka cannibal cooking the remains of'Russian soldier'

    'In Hostomel, near Kiev, a Ukrainian video influencer decided to go out to one of the wrecked tanks, and found himself some remains of a ‘dead Russian soldier’, which he decided to cook and eat to great internet acclaim in his country.

    (18+) for anyone with the stomach to watch:

    https://www.bitchute.com/video/eTs1yUPCio7D/

    https://sputniknews.com/20220427/hitting-a-new-low-ukrainian-man-posts-video-boasting-of-eating-russian-soldiers-meat-1095108054.html

    Now whether this is a staged ‘stunt’ or not, the fact of the matter is on social media he was said to have gotten greatly positive feedback from many Ukrainians who urged others to go out and cannibalize dead Russian soldiers. This is just an insightful look into Ukrainian society and their inculcated, absolute inhuman hatred of Russians.

    And of course there’s the unfortunate fact that experts have determined without a shadow of a doubt that the tank from which he foraged his unholy delicacy was in fact a Ukrainian T-64 (and not a Russian T-72), a tank Russia does not use (nor was DPR/LPR anywhere near Hostomel at any time).'

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  4. Why is Russia taking so long to win? Their army is 10 times bigger than Ukrain. Will it be over by november. My family want to go Europe tour for school holidays. Postpone 2 years already, beh tahan.

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    1. Knn u human or not? People suffering in war and all u can think of it's a holiday. Why don't u just bang at home

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    2. Don't really understand why so many bananas loved to go to the EU countries who have nothing to see except their ruins of wars and churches and damp worn out grey buildings.
      Asia like China and South Korea offers more scenic scenery.
      Closer to home Matland where you cannot even explore all their states in your lifetime.
      Some more the air fly so many stifying hours.

      Korea just four to five already killing. Some more now on 737 Max and also their same brand models which can nose dived anytime when that senile Bidamn push the wrong buttons.


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  5. Russians like long wars to wear down enemies. The Nazis could not last the long war against Russia and it was also Hitler's Waterloo. Make no mistake. It wasn't the USA or it's allies that did the actual defeat of Hitler's Nazi Germany. They just went in upon seeing the Nazis losing and took advantage.

    They USA and it's allies were actually sitting on the sidelines waiting for the Russians and Germans to destroy each other, but Russia was not destroyed and Hitler was. So they went in and claimed all the credit. This is the history that was hidden but they wrote a more entertaining version of the Normandy landing and all the bullshit. They dared not invite the Russians to celebrate D-day for fear of letting the cat out of the bag.

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  6. Winter is coming...and Russia knows how to play this card very well as proven during the Napolean and Nazi wars..

    'Alarming Signs Farmers Reduce Fertilizer May Wreck Crop Yields '

    'There is growing concern farmers worldwide are reducing chemical fertilizer, which may threaten yields come harvest time, according to Bloomberg. The repercussions could be huge: Lower yields may exacerbate the food crisis.

    There are alarming signs commercial farmers in top growing areas in the world are decreasing the use of essential nutrients — nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium.

    Revealed last week, SLC Agricola SA, one of Brazil's largest farming operations, managing fields of soybeans, corn, and cotton fields in an area larger than the state of Delaware, will reduce the use of fertilizer by 20% and 25%.

    Coffee farmers in Brazil, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Costa Rica, some of the largest coffee-producing countries, are expected to spread less fertilizer because of high costs and shortages. A coffee cooperative representing 1,200 farmers in Costa Rica predicts coffee output could slip 15% next year because of soaring fertilizer costs. '

    https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/alarming-signs-farmers-reduce-fertilizer-may-wreck-crop-yields

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