The "offensive" is mythological.
Russia practices "active defense" - they move around seeking to destroy enemy forces and aren't focuses on keeping geography ("holding" territory is often a logistical nightmare - it wrecked Nazis in Russia).
Ukraine's forces were nested near urban/civilian centers and ready to make "last stands"
The US egged them on to "attack" empty areas Russia had vacated, and then they became a target and were decimated.
US is keeping the war going with Ukraine's corrupt "wee Ned."
Alas:
"1) Russians inflicted huge casualties on the Ukrainians that advanced to Izium.
2) Russians took very, very few casualties.
3) Ukrainians advanced through empty space. They did not force the Russians out. They simply moved in after the Russians withdrew.
4) Ukrainian forces are now out of the cities and forests and must fight in the open. This the fight the Russians prefer...
"Given Washington’s inability to end the war in Ukraine with the defeat of Russian arms, it seems certain that the Beltway will try instead to turn the ruins of the Ukrainian state into an open wound in Russia’s side that will never heal. From the beginning, the problem with this approach was that Russia always had the resources to dramatically escalate the fighting and end the fighting in Ukraine on very harsh terms. Escalation is now in progress. ..
Washington always mistook Putin’s readiness to negotiate and limit the scope and destructiveness of the campaign in Ukraine as evidence of weakness, when it was clear that Putin’s aims were always restricted to the elimination of the NATO threat to Russia in Eastern Ukraine. Washington’s strategy of exploiting the conflict to sell F-35 fighter jets to Germany—along with large numbers of missiles, rockets, and radars to Central and East European allied governments—is now backfiring.
The defense establishment has a long record of success in tranquilizing American voters with meaningless clichés. As conditions favorable to Moscow develop in Eastern Ukraine and the Russian position in the world grows stronger, Washington confronts a stark choice: Talk about having successfully “degraded Russian power” in Ukraine and scale back its actions. Or risk a regional war with Russia that will engulf Europe....
As of this date, Kiev continues to oblige Moscow by impaling Ukraine’s last reserves of manpower on Russian defenses. Washington, insists President Biden, will support Ukraine “as long as it takes.” But if Washington continues to drain America’s strategic oil reserve, and ship American war stocks to Ukraine, the ability to protect and provision the United States will compete with supporting Ukraine."
General examination of future defense trends and<br> considerations for reform to achieve maximum efficiency.
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