Ukraine’s Offensive Remains Stalled: Western Media Begins Admitting Failures August 9, 2023 Unipro2013main Ukraine War </p> <h2>Update on the conflict in Ukraine for August 9, 2023</h2> <p> – Western analysts and media sources are beginning to admit the poor progress, heavy losses, and fundamental flaws of the Ukrainian offensive and beyond that, the unsustainable nature of the proxy war in the first place;</p> <p>– Ukraine is shifting away from attempts to storm Russian lines and attempting instead to conduct attritional warfare, however, it lacks the material resources to do so which necessitated “storming” tactics in the first place;</p> <p>– As Ukraine’s offensive falters on the battlefield, Kiev and its Western sponsors have been focusing on aerial and naval drone strikes to create the illusion Ukraine maintains the initiative;</p> <p>– Quantities of artillery, armor, and trained manpower determine the duration of Ukraine’s offensive. The disposition of both Ukrainian and Russian forces including the reserves of both sides will determine if a breakthrough will occur;</p> <p>– Russian military industrial capacity and the material resources it produces for the ongoing military operation ensures that no matter where Ukraine’s offensive ends on the battlefield, it will leave Ukrainian forces exhausted, depleted, and unable to sustain their fighting capacity;</p> <p>– Industrial capability between the collective West and both Russia and China is and will remain into the foreseeable future leaning in favor of Russia and China;</p> <p>– The West gambled and lost on “small wars” as it enters an end game for geopolitical unipolarity against Russia and China and the reality that modern warfare against peer and near-peer competitors requires industrial capacity the West doesn’t have and cannot obtain;<br /> <br /> Credit to : The New Atlas</p> <p> Please support our Sponsors here :
