The fallout from the lunatic bloodbath in Bakhmut has begun.
Its totally unclear why tens of thousands of Ukrainians were sent to die in a city that could not possibly be held. At least six and probably eight months before the Russians raised their flags on the last mid-rise tower in Bakhmut, it was obvious that the city was going to fall and everyone who went there was going to die for no reason.
There are various theories as to why the Zelensky government chose to keep shoving bodies into this meat-grinder, against the advice of his own military leadership and, as we know from the big leaks, against the advice of many American advisors.
Its possible:
He was buying time for the training of the supposed new army that he is beginning to deploy. These are troops trained by NATO in various foreign countries. He was sending mostly ethnic Russians who he had force-conscripted (press-ganged), because he is purposefully trying to clear out the fighting-age male ethnic Russian population and this was an easy way to liquidate them. There are other theories as well. Those two, however, both seem logical.
What does not seem logical is that it was about morale, which has been Zelenskys claim. That is the opposite of the truth. Everyone knew the Russians would eventually win, like they did in Mariupol, and that this would be the biggest conceivable blow to Ukrainian morale.
The fallout from the morale-breaking defeat has already begun in earnest. A video recently posted to Telegram shows a Ukrainian commander with his brains popped out. The man filming his body is saying that
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