Putin Notes That the Ukraine Offensive was a Total Bust

The Ukrainian offensive was hands-down the single most disastrous military offensive in all of human history.

It was only possible because the West was pressuring Kiev to do it, and the war itself is totally unique in that these Ukrainians are continuing to fight despite the fact that they have no possibility of victory.

RT:

The West is evidently disappointed that Kiev’s much-lauded counteroffensive has failed to produce any results and has led to high levels of Ukrainian casualties, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.

Kiev has received “colossal amounts of resources,” including all kinds of Western weapons and “thousands of foreign mercenaries and advisers,” but has still failed in its campaign, Putin stated during a government meeting on Friday. 

The leader praised the bravery, resolve, and professionalism of Russian soldiers and officers. He also argued that Western military equipment had proven to be inferior in some ways even to Soviet-era weapons.

Western nations may supply more weapons to Ukraine, causing more damage to Russia and prolonging the conflict, but “NATO arsenals and stockpiles of old Soviet weapons in certain states are depleted to a certain degree,” Putin added. He claimed that Western military production cannot keep up with demand, while increasing it would require considerable time and investment.

They absolutely can’t keep up with the demand. That is why they are sending cluster bombs – they ran out of normal shells.

This has never happened to America before. They’ve never ran out of weapons.

These people had no idea what they were getting into.

Meanwhile, Ukraine has lost “tens of thousands of troops” in “suicidal attacks” against Russian defensive positions, Putin claimed. Kiev is running out of manpower despite “total mobilization raids on Ukrainian cities and villages,” he added, insisting that the Ukrainian people are increasingly asking themselves whose “selfish interests their family members are dying for.”

According to Putin, the US is interested in weakening Europe by fanning the conflict. The president suggested that European public opinion and even European elites are turning against the “endless waste of money and effort” on behalf of the interests of “the global hegemon across the ocean.”

Yeah, this is kind of like a loyalty test for the Europeans.

It’s a humiliation ritual.

It has been truly wild watching Europe destroy itself in order to support this American war. This is a war which, quite honestly, doesn’t really have very much relevance to the Americans. Russia is not a threat to America, and whether or not they have gay marriage in the Donbass is not a strategic concern of the Americans.

The entire collective West has gone insane.

We heard that if the Ukraine offensive failed, there was going to be a reevaluation.

It’s not clear if a reevaluation is happening or not. Nothing at all about what is going on is clear.

Presumably, something is going to happen.

Either there is going to be a pullback on the part of the Americans/West, or they are going to escalate by sending in NATO or at least the Poles.

There is nothing left to do with the Ukrainian forces. They failed. That’s over.

More than anything in the world, I want to see Russia win this war. I want to see the American empire collapse.