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Col. Macgregor: Ukraine Is FALLING APART As Putin Marches West
Colonel Douglas Macgregor shares with Stephen Gardner how the F16 jets from Biden won't be of much use and could cause the US to send boots on the ground. Zelenskyy desperately needs to hold Bakhmut in order to prove he can beat Putin and Russia. How did General Surovikin of Russia take advantage of President Zelensky's belief that Bakhmut represented Ukrainian resistance to Russian military power?
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After Bakhmut
Russia turned Bakhmut into the graveyard of Ukrainian military power. What comes next?
Douglas Macgregor
May 23, 2023
12:03 AM
Until the fighting begins, national military strategy developed in peacetime shapes thinking about warfare and its objectives. Then the fighting creates a new logic of its own. Strategy is adjusted. Objectives change. The battle for Bakhmut illustrates this point very well.
When General Sergey Vladimirovich Surovikin, commander of Russian aerospace forces, assumed command of the Russian military in the Ukrainian theater last year, President Vladimir Putin and his senior military advisors concluded that their original assumptions about the war were wrong. Washington had proved incurably hostile to Moscow’s offers to negotiate, and the ground force Moscow had committed to compel Kiev to negotiate had proved too small.
Surovikin was given wide latitude to streamline command relationships and reorganize the theater. Most importantly, Surovikin was also given the freedom of action to implement a defensive strategy that maximized the use of stand-off attack or strike systems while Russian ground forces expanded in size and striking power. The Bakhmut “Meatgrinder” was the result.
When it became clear that Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and his government regarded Bakhmut as a symbol of Ukrainian resistance to Russian military power, Surovikin turned Bakhmut into the graveyard of Ukrainian military power. From the fall of 2022 onward, Surovikin exploited Zalenskiy’s obsession with Bakhmut to engage in a bloody tug-of-war for control of the city. As a result, thousands of Ukrainian soldiers died in Bakhmut and many more were wounded.
Surovkin’s performance is reminiscent of another Russian military officer: General Aleksei Antonov. As the first deputy chief of the Soviet general staff, Surovikin was, in Western parlance, the director of strategic planning. When Stalin demanded a new summer offensive in a May 1943 meeting, Antonov, the son and grandson of imperial Russian army officers, argued for a defensive strategy. Antonov insisted that Hitler, if allowed, would inevitably attack the Soviet defenses in the Kursk salient and waste German resources doing so.
Stalin, like Hitler, believed that wars were won with offensive action, not defensive operations.
Stalin was unmoved by Soviet losses. Antonov presented his arguments for the defensive strategy in a climate of fear, knowing that contradicting Stalin could cost him his life. To the surprise of Marshals Aleksandr Vasilevsky and Georgy Zhukov, who were present at the meeting, Stalin relented and approved Antonov’s operational concept. The rest, as historians say, is history.
If President Putin and his senior military leaders wanted outside evidence for Surovikin’s strategic success in Bakhmut, a Western admission appears to provide it: Washington and her European allies seem to think that a frozen conflict—in which fighting pauses but neither side is victorious, nor does either side agree that the war is officially over—could be the most politically palatable long-term outcome for NATO. In other words, Zelensky’s supporters no longer believe in the myth of Ukrainian victory.
The question on everyone’s mind is, what’s next?
In Washington, conventional wisdom dictates that Ukrainian forces launch a counteroffensive to retake Southern Ukraine. Of course, conventional wisdom is frequently high on convention and low on wisdom. On the assumption that Ukraine’s black earth will dry sufficiently to support ground maneuver forces before mid-June, Ukrainian forces will strike Russian defenses on multiple axes and win back control of Southern Ukraine in late May or June. Roughly 30,000 Ukrainian soldiers training in Great Britain, Germany, and other NATO member states are expected to return to Ukraine and provide the foundation for the Ukrainian counterattack force.
General Valery Gerasimov, who now commands the Russian forces in the Ukrainian theater, knows what to expect, and he is undoubtedly preparing for the Ukrainian offensive. The partial mobilization of Russian forces means that Russian ground forces are now much larger than they have been since the mid-1980s.
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Redacted with Clayton Morris 5/16/2023
Colonel Douglas MacGregor reveals the devastating truth about Ukraine's standing army, they've been obliterated. President Zelensky this weekend said there are long lines at Ukraine's recruitment centers but there is no evidence of that. Russia continues to decimate air defense across Ukraine ahead of a June offensive.
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Russia Ukraine: Massive Russian Offensive To END The War? Colonel Douglas Macgregor
Godfrey Bloom interviews Military Expert Colonel Douglas Macgregor - regarding the Russia Ukraine war. Colonel Macgregor exposes the truth behind the Russia Ukraine war - relaying information that is not being told to you on Mainstream Media!
Colonel Macgregor outlines Russia's potential forthcoming tactics and anticipates the war is in its end stages - with Ukraine not being able to withstand a final Russian offensive.
Godfrey Bloom ends the interview discussing the political aspect of war propaganda, and how western media simply does not allow any dissent on the war between Russia & Ukraine.
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Colonel Douglas Macgregor On Ukraine
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Colonel Douglas Macgregor discusses the war in Ukraine with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Col. Macgregor graduated from West Point Academy and is considered "one of the Army's leading thinkers on innovation," He became prominent inside the Army when his book Breaking the Phalanx was published in 1997, arguing for radical reforms.
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