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Written by Drago Bosnic, independent geopolitical and military analyst
Even before the start of the special military operation (SMO), the mainstream media had been running several propaganda narratives, almost simultaneously. Shortly before the SMO and in the first few days, there was the claim that Russia would take Kiev in three days and most of Ukraine in a week. However, as this didn’t happen (nor was it ever planned to unfold this way in the Kremlin), the mainstream propaganda machine went full afterburner in the opposite direction. Now, Moscow was suddenly losing, the Kiev regime forces are unbeatable, the Russians are suffering from extremely low morale due to massive losses, they’re running out of missiles, shells, fuel and so on, and so forth.
These ludicrous myths never stopped and continued until the failure of the much-touted counteroffensive. That was when many in the political West adopted a somewhat less propagandistic tone and tried mixing in some “realism”. However, this didn’t have the desired effect on the populace in Western Europe and North America. Thus, there’s a slow return to the most ridiculous propaganda one could possibly imagine. For instance, the Wall Street Journal claims that the Neo-Nazi junta will be “able to seize the initiative on the battlefield in 2025 if it can hold out against Russia until the end of next year”. This narrative is being pushed despite the fact that the United States, its primary backer, is about to stop the money flow.
The report initially doesn’t come off as propagandistic as one would expect, but towards the end, the authors still tried pushing debunked propaganda narratives. There are several instances of somewhat unexpected admissions, such as the obvious failure of the Kiev regime’s counteroffensive, as well as the dwindling financial support from the political West. The report also touched upon the growing divisions within the Neo-Nazi junta and the fact that its battered military will need time to recover. However, in a response to the WSJ, its Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba challenged this with a claim that “any pause in the fighting now would allow Russia to regroup and prepare for large-scale offensive operations”.
Kuleba even stated that the Kiev regime forces are preparing fresh brigades for “new counteroffensive and defensive operations”. The WSJ supported the idea and even went as far as to claim that “2024 will be the year of the recovery [for the Neo-Nazi junta troops]”. However, the authors admit that this comes with an important caveat, as the Kiev regime and its NATO overlords will need to “work through their current adversities and continue delivering supplies to troops, an emerging best-case scenario among Western strategists is that next year becomes a year of rebuilding for Kiev’s military“, adding that “the hope would be that a limited number of Ukrainian soldiers can hold Russian forces at bay”.
This would supposedly “allow NATO countries time to train fresh Ukrainian troops, expand armament production and restock Ukraine’s arsenals”. As indicated during a recent NATO meeting, the political West hopes that Russia’s incremental offensive operations will fail, “resulting in a depletion of its manpower and munitions, potentially offering Ukraine better prospects to retake the battlefield initiative in the spring of 2025, if it gets through next year”. However, the WSJ concluded the report with a not-so-optimistic remark of a Ukrainian infantry sergeant who said that when he talks to people at home he tells them that “everything is going well” and doesn’t describe what he sees or feels, which isn’t so upbeat.
“What is the point?”, the WSJ quoted the Ukrainian sergeant.
While the WSJ certainly is part of the mainstream, it’s still a bit more reputable than many other outlets of America’s massive propaganda machine. For instance, the infamous CNN is beating its own records in laughable claims by publishing that “Russia has lost a staggering 87% of the total number of active-duty ground troops it had prior to launching its invasion of Ukraine and two-thirds of its pre-invasion tanks”. Of course, this information came from “a source familiar with a declassified US intelligence assessment provided to Congress”. The assessment was sent on December 11, as the Republican-dominated Congress was in the middle of effectively canceling the “Ukraine aid”.
The “intelligence” assessment supposedly found that “the war has sharply set back 15 years of Russian effort to modernize its ground force”. Then came the numbers game, where CNN claims that “of the 360,000 troops that entered Ukraine, including contract and conscript personnel, Russia has lost 315,000 on the battlefield, 2,200 of 3,500 tanks and 4,400 of 13,600 infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers have also been destroyed, a 32% loss rate”. CNN says it reached out to the Russian Embassy for comment, which is yet to respond. The most likely scenario is that His Excellency Ambassador Anatoly Antonov is still laughing uncontrollably after reading all this. And he certainly isn’t the only one.
“The idea that Ukraine was going to throw Russia back to the 1991 borders was preposterous,” Sen. J.D. Vance, a Republican from Ohio, said on CNN’s State of the Union on December 10, adding: “So what we’re saying to the president and really to the entire world is, you need to articulate what the ambition is. What is $61 billion going to accomplish that $100 billion hasn’t?”
Even CNN had to admit that “Ukraine remains deeply vulnerable”, as its “highly anticipated counteroffensive stagnated through the fall”, and that “US officials believe that Kiev is unlikely to make any major gains over the coming months”. As for the alleged “staggering losses” of the Russian military, the truth is that Moscow hasn’t been this strong militarily since at least the 1980s. In addition, the Kremlin is effectively returning to a Soviet superpower level with its latest military strategy shift. The very idea that Russia lost well over 300,000 soldiers is beyond ludicrous, as the country would be littered with new military cemeteries in virtually every major settlement. On the contrary, it’s precisely Ukraine that looks like that thanks to the NATO-backed Neo-Nazi junta.
ruzzian nazis lost 90% of their fighting forces since the start of the failed “special operation” – what a debacle for putler 😆😆😆
take your pills ukronazi.
wanted in ukraina. age 32. has developmental disabilities. in february 2014 , left home and was planning to go to the eu. she never made it to the eu. but she didn’t return home either. she was dressed in an embroidered shirt , yellow-blue panties and a saucepan on her head. she has a perchance for begging , betrayal and can sleep with anyone she meets. responds to the word nato. at the word moskal, begins to jump hysterically. in fits , she constantly calls for some slava.
only braindead little nazi hurenkinder and morons like you belive this 300k bullshit.
and even if, since the start of the smo more than 450.000 new soldiers and reservists joined the rus army, while still 2 million in reserve and 20 more million in case of general mobilisation, while ukros right now catching over 45 years old from the streets because of the ongoing high losses.
latest in 2 yearsall ukro males between 18 and 60 years will be dead or wounded and than its total game over.
“nazi” is a state that ban people to have free speech (#gonzalo lira). “nazi” is a state that ban people to have free religion (#orthodoxy). “nazi” is a state that ban people to have free elections (#the clown banned it again). “nazi” is a state that ban people to speak in their native language (#russian, hungarian, surgik). “nazi” is a state that use nazi symbols like the wolfsangel and black sun in their official army forces (#ss azov).
the nsdap were real, the ukes are fake ‘nazis’, they are more like the ustache, violent ethic haters of everyone else. himmler went to an ustache camp for serbs and bosnians and either fainted or puked. the ukes are banderites, and stefan bandera was so radical himmler had him arrested.
they were always wannabe nazis and as such wanted to make an impression the only way they knew how. they used their position and weapons to extort and murder, in the name of the reich of course.
article says: the most likely scenario is that his excellency ambassador anatoly antonov is still laughing uncontrollably.. ” , yes indeed these communist jews are laughing, but the mothers and wifes of the roughly 300.000 killed precious young christian russian soldiers killed in ukraine are for sure not laughing but weeping, and are very angry at pootin and his anti-russian idiotic war project, which he even forbids to call war !
maybe because this isn’t a war? for war to exist it has to be declared. russian forces were invited into the donbas in order to help protect its people from a kiev junta, currently being run by nato. those russian and ukrainian’s fighting and dying to free the donbas will be seen for what they are. true unselfish heroes. not just now, but in the years to come.
thousands of people are dying on both sides yet you sit there snug as a bug in your nice little regime cubicle earning lots of overtime by pissing on the memory of those already fallen. easy money for some.
on the walls, just a round hole. etc, etc. in ukraine, it’s all about the power of the dollar and battery metal.
it’s sad that people still believe us propaganda, even though they’ve been caught: syrian children’s gassing videos exposed as actors, nord stream blown up by themselves, iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, clinton had an affair, wtc towers blown down and the pentagon hit “plane” was missing its wings, motors and stabilizer, because they didn’t even leave a scratch on the walls, etc. in ukraine, it is about the power of the dollar to blackmail countries with economic sanctions
curand cei din vuhledar se vor trezi cu ursoaica in spate. harta luptelor e in defavoarea lor
how about we remember that both russia and the ukraine were stronger when they were part of the union of soviet socialist republics, also much less corrupt. as for costs of that collapse, fyi this war is but one of them.
eating ice cream with your forehead is part of the desire to be part of the russian terrorist regime, there is nothing like a good ice cream to enjoy with your forehead, 90% of the population doesn’t even earn 400 euros, they live their fantasy in their fantasy
now bloody you losted it completely.
your commander in chief also eats his ice cream that way. he also gets others to wipe his butt, usually a nurse. the us of a. a place where even a draft dodger who was habitual awol can be president. not just once but twice. soon you’ll be able to have some bananas with your ice cream. if you can still get the ice cream.
the western media is in la la land and controlled by zionist shitheads.
nafo dipshits just a’ cryin’ and a screechin’!
i guess when reality doesn’t stick to the plan, then make it up. western politicians, if they can be called that these days, are doing their public a disservice by allowing the msm to spout non stop rubbish and misinformation. unless we are at war, a declared war, there is no justification for such tricks on the public who pay for it all.