Comments by "John Adam" (@johnadam2885) on "Sky News"
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And how is Kherson now ? Unlivable and nothing to celebrate now. Gen. Surivikin withdrew from Kherson, let the Ukranians come in, and then started massacring them from the other bank. Meanwhile the withdrawn Russian troops are battering Bakhmut. And Russia destroyed the power grid. The plan is to return Ukraine to its agricultural age, before the Soviet Union industrialised the Ukraine. No electricity, no airports, no trains, no ports, no munitions factories, no steel mills, end the capacity to wage war, just agriculture....
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Russia started the incursion into Kharkhov, forcing the Ukranians to divert troops from the Donbass front to defend it. That thinned out the Donbass front and it helped Russians advance.
Now the Ukranians themselves opened a front - and thinned themselves. They did not divert troops from Donbass, but they kind of abandoned them instead of reinforcing them. They threw their reserves into Kursk. They got the Russians by surprise and sure it was an embarassment. But in the long run, they cannot hold on to Kursk when they are simply short of manpower. Over a period, the Russians will kill the Ukrainians in Kursk. And meanwhile, the Ukrainians lose in Donbass.
The Ukrainian and US objectives are not clear.
Zelensky first said it is to strengthen Ukraine's negotiating position. Russia was not inclined to negotiate, but now it is inconceivable. Then Zelensky said Ukraine wanted to create a buffer zone. Russian missiles cross all buffer zones. Then Zelensky said that it was a message to people of Russia that war was in their country - as if the population will be angry with Putin and it would cause an uprising against Putin because of it. Instead, Russians would be angrier at Ukraine and the west and they will agree with Putin. All it does is strengthen the hand of those who advocate a nuclear strike on Ukraine.
The Kursk gamble was taken under US instruction, and it is a publicity stunt. The plan was to capture the Kursk nuclear power plant to force Russia to negotiate, as they would not be able to fight at a nuclear power plant. But the Ukrainians could not get close, and now the Russians have fortified the Kursk nuclear power plant. The Ukrainians are left with sparsely populated areas of Kursk and they are hunted by the Russians.
Clarke is distancing himself from the narrative that Ukraine is winning for the time when the folly will be exposed.
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