Ukraine Is Paying A Heavy Price for Its Total Dependence on the West

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by Larry Johnson

Ukraine, with each passing day, reminds me of a crack addict who is dependent on his local drug slinger to feed his habit, which is slowly killing him. Ukraine no longer has the ability to produce its own weapons, conduct mass troop training on its own territory, keep electricity flowing to the major cities and maintain a viable economy.
 
The true horror of what Ukraine is experiencing can be seen in the following brief video:
 

 
Along with the growing mountain of corpses, the lines of communication with front line troops is straining to keep soldiers supplied with food and ammunition. I cannot vouch that the following video is an accurate translation (and will happily stand corrected if there are any Ukrainian speakers reading this blog), but it clearly indicates there are some food issues:
 

 
Beyond shortages of food, the United States and NATO are not able to supply the weapons they have promised to send to Ukraine. Joe Biden, in a rare moment of clarity in California, admitted that a chip shortage is preventing his Administration from delivering promised shipments of Javelin missiles to Ukraine:

“Earlier this year, I was at the Lockheed Martin plant in Alabama, where they make Javelin missiles.
 
Guess what?
 
We had problems with the supply of Javelin missiles to Ukraine, because … they did not have computer chips, ”TASS reports him.
 
Biden stressed that the active production of semiconductors is a matter of national security.
 
On October 27, it became known that in the near future Kyiv may face a shortage of American weapons.

Wait! There is more unwelcome news. Not only is Ukraine’s military short on beans and bullets (and begging insistently for more cowbell), its communications system is not functioning.

Ukraine’s fears that its troops  may lose access to Elon Musk’s crucial Starlink internet service deepened in the past week after 1,300 of the military’s satellite units went offline, according to two sources familiar with the outage.
 
The small, easy-to-use satellite dishes made by Musk’s private rocket company SpaceX have been universally hailed as a game-changing source of communication for Ukraine’s military, allowing it to fight and stay online even as cellular phone and internet networks have been destroyed in its war with Russia.
 
But concerns have risen recently over the dependability of SpaceX after discussions about funding were revealed and outages were reported near the frontlines.

If aid from the West is disrupted or cut off then Ukraine will no longer be able to continue to battle the Russians. The United States and the United Kingdom continue to insist stridently that they are reliable allies of Kiev and will keep the aid flowing. But those promises become more hollow with each passing day as domestic political and economic problems mount in Washington and London.

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11/09/22 – Kherson: Russia to withdraw troops from key Ukrainian city

Russia’s military has been ordered to pull out of the Ukrainian city of Kherson, the only regional capital it captured after invading in February.

Russia’s commander in Ukraine, Gen Sergei Surovikin, said it was no longer possible to keep supplying the city.

The withdrawal means Russian forces will pull out entirely from the western bank of the River Dnipro.

It is a significant blow as Russia faces a Ukrainian counter-offensive.

Trepidation as Russians prepare Kherson pullout

The military’s top brass announced the decision on Russian state TV, with Gen Surovikin reporting on the situation on the ground in Kherson.

President Vladimir Putin did not take part in the staged event. The architect of Russia’s failing war in Ukraine appeared to have left the announcement to his generals.

It was Mr Putin who announced Russia’s annexation of Kherson, and three other occupied regions, at the end of September…

McCarthy isn’t going to have a sufficiently large or cohesive House majority to bring about the betrayal of Ukraine, since many conservative Republicans fully understand what giving Putin Ukraine would inevitably lead to. Even a play by Trump to elect a different Speaker of the House isn’t likely to have such an effect.

Marjorie Taylor Greene can go to hell.

Last edited 2 years ago by Greg

Wow they are winning for the umteenth time.

It’s not an effin’ football game. Putin’s “Special Military Operation” has been a total disaster. He has uselessly filled graveyards, created countless orphans, widows, and widowers, reduced peaceful cities and villages to ruin, set the stage for mass deprivation and starvation, upended the global economy, and turned Russia into a terrorist state that his own people flee from to avoid conscription. The world would celebrate his disappearance.

Its like gambling on a slot machine ooh dont stop now that was nearly 3 7’s put more money into it , and you fall for it every time. Get your head out of the NWO ass its another Vietnam, endless death that did not mean a thing to begin with. Funny we get out of One blood filled money pit and jump right into another.

Last edited 2 years ago by kitt

Republicans advocated isolationism and ignored Hitler’s ambitions until the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. The The America First Committee was predominantly republican and conservative.

Anyone should be able to figure out what will happen if Putin has his way.