Comments by "Antony Wooster" (@antonywooster6783) on "Russia ukraine War: Russia intensifies Attacks In East Ukraine | Gravitas Highlights" video.

  1. The point that you, and all Western commentators seem unable to grasp, is that the Russians are not all that interested in taking and holding territory. At the start of the "SMO", Putin stated the Russian aims as "prevent Ukraine joining NATO, to de-militarise Ukraine and to de-NA*Ify Ukraine". Nothing, about gaining a lot of ground. Unlike the Ukrainian government, which seems to have an obsession about holding onto "every millimetre of territory", even when it costs a mountain of killed and wounded, as was seen in Bachmut, the Russians have looked at the disposition of forces and when they saw that they were locally weak, they withdrew to a more easily defended position. In the result the Russians have largely done what they set out to do. Not only is Ukraine de-militarized, but NATO seems to be very short of weapons, most of the NA*I battalions are dead and Ukraine is not (Officially) part of NATO. Maybe the Russian aims are now changing, we shall have to wait and see, but there can be very little doubt they have done what they set out to do. It's mostly over, bar the shouting.
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