Ukrainian Control of Bakhmut Is Down To 10% Full Front Update

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[–]GoldenDynasty[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (11 children)

If you watch this video's analysis (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcN5K0KhOSA) , you will realize just how brutal this meatgrinder has been for the Ukrainian army. They are constantly pouring more and more men into Bakhmut in order to retain and recapture the territory lost, to no avail. The heavy losses also put their announced 'mass counteroffensive' against Russia into question. Zelensky himself has said in the past that if Bakhmut falls, then Ukraine may be forced to come to the negotiating table with Russia, as the fall of Bakhmut will leave a huge portion of the territory of the Donetsk oblast vulnerable to a Russian offensive.

[–]GoldenDynasty[S] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (10 children)

Furthermore, Russia's wagner managed to avoid a "mariupol" like scenario in Bakhmut by sneaking in from the north and capturing the Artemovsk Steel plant and entire industrial area first. Now the only remaining pockets of areas the Ukrainians control are to the West near Khromove and Ivaniskye.

Another of Russia's often stated goal is to "demilitarize" the Ukrainian nation, which it seems that they are being successful in doing, due to Zelensky's insistence to keep on piling in troops to trap holes such as Bakhmut, many of the soldiers which end up dying shortly after being deployed to the front lines, while Russia's losses in comparison, are not that high due to a more cautious approach, superior air power, reconnaissance, electronic warfare, as well as artillery, and supplies compared to the Ukrainians.

I would say that Russia's larger goal of weakening NATO is also coming into fruition. NATO's arm supplies have dwindled to a significant extent, the COL has gone up along with protests, and more and more countries are pushing themselves to dedollarize thanks to initiatives such as BRICs. Even the French president openly spoke up about Western Europe to not be the 'vassals of US foreign policy', as well as the US treasury Jannet Yellen who said that the US's tendency to use the dollar's power to sanction anyone that doesn't toe their line as being a possible cause of the decline of its hegemony. Although her 'analysis' about it was some of the most laughably deranged and stupidest things I've read. Such as her saying that no other country has the 'rule of law' like the US does, and thats why businesses will continue to invest in it.

[–]TwerKing 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

There are rumors that the polish might send reinforcements to help ukrainian troops push back the russians. What's your take at how effective will it be if they do??

Poland is weirdly bipolar. On one hand, they're kinda similar to austria and hungary because the polish seem to objectively see what eupedonato is and regret joining that bloc. While on the other hand, polish have a lot of resentment and distrust towards russia because of what happened during the soviet era in their corner of the planet. It's somewhat understandable given that polish felt their voices at the time barely mattered when russians were dictating most of the policies to lord over countries within their orbit on how they should be run, basically a tsar-esque empire under the guise of communism or socialism or whatever you want to call it.

If true, do you think this decision by poland supposedly eager to send their troops as reinforcements for ukraine is genuine?? Do you think it has more to do with dc, berlin, london, brussels, and probably even rome, are all coercing warsaw behind the scenes to be meatshields for them?? Maybe a little bit of both at the same time??

Many of the polish politicans and common people alike have a cucky pro-west side to them as they got no qualms about being meatshields for eupedonato during certain situations to spite a couple of countries they have beef with like russia. Yet, the polish people do have a based anti-west side to them as they don't like eupedonato outside these certain situations and are surprisingly china friendly for the most part. Lol. Like what I said, weirdly bipolar.

[–]GoldenDynasty[S] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

The polish government has a very vassal state mentality in regards to the US, but I doubt they will be officially "sending troops into ukraine" to fight Russia, unless they had solid undeniable evidence that Russia attacked their territory. This was proven when poland acted relatively cautiously when they thought russia fired a missile on its borders a couple of months back. Instead of immediately blaming Russia and calling for Article 4 of NATO's doctrine, poland said that they will investigate who shoot the missile, found out it was done by Ukraine by accident, and let it go. Poland will most likely be very opportunistic as well, if they see there is no hope for Ukraine, they and Hungary may seize land from the westernmost and other parts of Ukraine, such as Lyiv, as Poland has some historical claims to those parts of lands.

Also poland recently doesn't seem to be too "china friendly" as they mentioned that China taking Taiwan would be a "security threat" to the West, similar to how they perceive Russia's mission in Ukraine. China gave a pretty harsh response back to Poland as a response. So I think if a war does start in the Asian region, poland will most likely firmly align with the West/NATO block.

[–]TwerKing 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Smh at poland. I hope they change their mind but I'm not betting on it.

[–]GoldenDynasty[S] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

They will learn the consequences of being a vassal to a warmongering regime the easy way, or the hard way