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| Russia Signals It Will Limit Scope To "Complete Liberation Of Donbas" - Says "No Progress" In Talks |
| 2022-03-26 |
| [ZERO] Update(11:43ET): In what's looking like a hugely significant first sign that Russia could be pulling back on the scope of its Ukraine operations, Bloomberg reports Friday that the Kremlin may be limiting its key military objectives to taking full control over the Donbas region. This despite multiple parts of the county, including outside the capital of Kiev, still witnessing intense fighting and shelling. The hugely important Friday Bloomberg report says that "After a month of fighting that’s yielded limited territorial gains, the Russian military said it’s focusing efforts on taking full control of Ukraine’s Donbas region, potentially a sign it’s backing away from hopes of taking larger swathes of the country." The Russian military's first deputy chief of the General Staff Sergei Rudskoi said the following as quoted in Interfax: "Our forces will focus on the main thing - the complete liberation of Donbas." Bloomberg writes further of the Russian commander's surprising words, "Rudskoi claimed Russian troops have surrounded several major cities but deliberately didn’t seek to take them, instead aiming to pin Ukrainian troops down. His comments were the most detailed official accounting of Russian military performance since the Feb. 24 invasion." "We'll just leave the tip in" |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 Biden said today that his goal is regime change. He's out of his fricking mind. Has this lunatic ever handled any successful negotiation? There will be peace talks at some point. What incentive does the other side have to negotiate when you said you want him dead? When did America ever negotiate like this? We need regime change in Washington |
| Posted by: Heriberto Clunk3995 2022-03-26 22:13 |
| #5 Stockman writes likes he talks, but I thought the various maps of Ukraine were interesting. And how many partitions did the Poles go through? Article |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2022-03-26 12:25 |
| #4 Certainly looks like a signal that the map of Ukraine will be altered after a cease-fire, but it will remain a chastened but sovereign nation. What remains is a huge cleanup and rebuild for a nation essentially ruined by war, and a new Cold War against a diminished Russia firmly self-exiled into the Chinese orbit, with decades of cultural and economic isolation ahead. Their energy profits will come with pictures of Mao printed on them, and the much smaller profit margins will reflect their increasingly client/vassal status. Not what Pootie planned, and heads will roll shortly throughout the nomenclatura , perhaps over time including his. The opportunity from all this might well be the significant growth of European self-defense spending, and a far more western orientation of their energy policy from our hemisphere, providing we want that wealth for the USA. Not a certainty given the economic/cultural suicide path of our demokrat polity. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2022-03-26 12:00 |
| #3 Liberation of Donbas all the way to the Dnieper River. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2022-03-26 10:28 |
| #2 the complete liberation of Donbas "With exact borders to be determined at a later time..." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-03-26 08:41 |
| #1 "Our forces will focus on the main thing - the complete liberation of Donbas." Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) be hard. So-called "off ramp" in .5 miles. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-03-26 02:03 |