I’ve long been saying that it’s shocking that the Ukraine people are willing to continue dying in these numbers, and it’s shocking that there is not some kind of revolt.
It seems like if they were going to do it, they would have done it already.
RT:
Failures on the battlefield could push the Ukrainian military to move against President Vladimir Zelensky, retired CIA analyst Larry Johnson has said.
“Zelensky very well could be ousted in a coup within the next three to four weeks, because of the great disgruntlement among troops on the eastern front,” Johnson told Redacted host Clayton Morris in an interview posted over the weekend.
This seems ambitious.
So far, none of these predictions have come true – on either side.
Obviously, the left has made the more insane predictions, constantly saying “the Ukraine is on the verge of taking Crimea” and so on. But the right-wing predictions have not really been much better, constantly predicting the Ukraine will collapse.
In some ways, we’re already entering into a “frozen conflict” type situation. The line is static and no one is really doing anything.
Ukraine’s grand offensive in Zaporozhye, launched in early June with Western-trained troops and NATO-supplied tanks and armored vehicles, has failed to achieve a breakthrough anywhere. Additional brigades, intended to exploit the intended breach, have been deployed to continue the frontal attacks instead, to the point that the US and its allies are publicly airing their frustrations with Ukrainian tactics.
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Johnson told Redacted that the way the conflict is going, Ukraine’s survival as a country was “in great doubt.” Kiev is already entirely dependent on the West, and its needs will only grow while its capabilities will continue to shrink, the former CIA official said.
The US strategy for the conflict was to trap Russia in an unwinnable war and induce regime change in Moscow, according to Johnson. Instead, “that’s going to happen to Ukraine,” and Washington will have to figure out how to “back away” from the conflict, because it has massively underestimated Russia’s economic and military strength.
Russian talk shows have consistently taken a favorable stance towards Valery Zaluzny, the head of the Ukraine military. I always assumed this was because they expected him to either lead a coup, or to be put in charge of the Ukraine post-war.