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February 17, 2024

Annihilated Ukraine Flees From Key Fortress In War Biden Proclaimed Russia Lost

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

A compelling new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today first noting President Putin most factually observing about the warmongering socialist Western colonial powers: “Neo-colonialism is a disgraceful heritage of the centuries-long age of plunder and exploitation of the people of Africa, Asia and Latin America, as well as other regions of the planet...We see its aggressive manifestations in the collective West’s attempts to retain its dominance at any cost, to economically subjugate other countries, to strip them of sovereignty, to impose alien values and cultural traditions”, says this factual observation was joined by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov truthfully assessing: “Against the backdrop of economic problems, the Americans have openly engaged in pumping resources out of Europe...They are cutting off promising markets and reliable energy sources...For the sake of this, they blew up the Nord Stream gas pipelines without hesitation and ordered Germany and the rest of Europe to swallow this humiliation...Europe quietly obeyed, forgetting about its former timid speculations about strategic autonomy and dignity”.

The current example of socialist Western colonial warmongering fast leading to the abyss of World War III, this report notes, began when the socialist Obama-Biden Regime overthrew the democratically elected Ukrainian government in what history records as “the most blatant coup in history” and installed a neo-Nazi nationalist government in 2014—the Ukraine Nazi Regime then began a genocidal extermination of its Slavic-Russian population, but were stopped when Russia supplied weapons to these under seige peoples so they could protect themselves—once stopped, however, the Ukraine Nazi Regime turned the Donetsk Oblast city of Avdeevka into a fortress packed with NATO supplied weapons they used to continue the extermination of their own Slavic-Russian peoples—on 9 September 2022, the United Nations reported about these Ukraine Nazi Regime terrorist attacks: “There are more than 14,000 casualties to date but actual numbers are likely considerably higher”—when the Ukraine Nazi Regime prepared to launch their final extermination campaign in February-2022, it saw Russia countering with the “Special De-Nazification Operation” to liberate Ukraine on 24 February 2022—to allow the continued use of Russian military forces in the special military operation, the Slavic-Russian oblasts of Ukraine became part of the Russian Federation on 22 September 2022 following their peoples approving with a referendum vote—in October-2023, it saw Russian military forces moving against the Ukraine Nazi Regime fortress city of Avdeevka, that non-stop continued its terrorist attacks against innocent civilians using NATO weapons, about which the leftist Western media reported on 13 October 2023: “By all indications, the Russian offensive is unlikely to succeed in capturing Avdeevka from Ukrainian troops, who have been reinforcing the fortress-like area ever since driving out the Russian-backed separatists who briefly occupied it during the spring and summer of 2014”.

In the early hours today, this report continues, Ukraine Commander-In-Chief General Aleksandr Syrsky posted the message: “Based on the operational situation around Avdeevka, in order to avoid encirclement and preserve the lives and health of servicemen, I decided to withdraw our units from the city and move to defense on more favorable lines”—a message followed by Donetsk People’s Republic top adviser Yan Gagin observing: “Yes, in fact, Avdeevka is being abandoned by units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, we notice that they are coming out, coming out scattered...So it's not as Syrsky wrote that they are leaving, nothing like that...What is happening now is an escape”.

While his annihilated soldiers flee in terror across the corpse littered fields under unrelenting fire outside of Avdeevka today, this report details, corrupt puppet leader Ukraine President Vladimir Zelensky is attending the Munich Security Conference in Germany begging for more money from the socialist Western colonial powers, from where he claimed: “In order to avoid encirclement, it was decided to withdraw to other positions...This was done to keep the maximum number of Ukrainians safe”--then Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova responded to the claim with the declaration: “No, not for that reason...But because ZePresident and the gang know how to fight only for big money, which goes straight into their pockets, and only against civilians...Everything else doesn’t matter to them”.

Following Supreme Socialist Leader Joe Biden proclaiming to the world last July: “Putin’s already lost the war...There is no possibility of him winning the war in Ukraine”, this report notes, yesterday it saw his Pentagon issuing the dire warning: “In the strategic city of Avdeevka in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian forces are running short of ammunition and other critical supplies, and the city is at risk of soon falling into Russian hands...We see this as something that could be the harbinger of what is to come if we do not get this supplemental funding—because without supplemental funding, not only can we not resupply those forces that are bravely trying to defend Avdeevka, we also will find many other locations along the forward line of troops that will be running low on supplies of critical ammunition”—a dire warning joined by Russian war correspondent Andrei Martyanov assessing:

Dear friends, while public attention is focused on the events that are developing in the South Donetsk direction, we should not forget other sectors of the front. Because what we see now is a large-scale and very beautiful strategic operation.

In my opinion, the world has not seen such a global strategic operation since World War II.

We have encountered not just a serious, motivated enemy, we, let me remind you, are confronting the united force of the collective West.

However, let’s return to real events.

The essence of what is happening is that our generals are playing in different sectors of the front, like a virtuoso pianist at his favorite piano. Consistently increasing the pressure, then releasing it in different sectors of the front. Arranging a crescendo in some places, and in others, on the contrary, masterfully reducing the pressure, provoking stupid Ukrainians to counterattack.

It’s like an experienced boxer opening himself up slightly, provoking his opponent into a rash attack in order to ultimately deliver a knockout blow.

And in this regard, it is probably worth paying attention to the Zaporozhye Front. I already wrote in January that one of the most important tasks of the second part of our big campaign to completely defeat the enemy was the destruction of the forces of the most combat-ready group in the South Donetsk direction. In particular, Tauride.

It was no coincidence that our generals chose the most media direction for a powerful attack, but, at the same time, not the most important in strategic terms. Here our strategists pulled ukrov on Fuhrer Zelensky’s pet peeve – real boys never retreat. They will chew off the last pencil, but they will still leave the PR behind them.

However, the fact that the Ukrainians once again fell for the masterful deception of our General Staff means that, most likely, a knockout blow will be dealt in several places at once.

Where? One can only speculate here.

At near the exact same moment articles were appearing in America this morning like “Avdiivka, Longtime Stronghold For Ukraine, Falls To Russians” and “Putin Scores Significant Victory, A Moment That Marks A Pivotal Turn In War As World Watches”, this report concludes, deranged socialist leader Vice President Kamala Harris proclaimed at the Munich Security Conference: “Make no mistake, Putin's war has already been an utter failure for Russia”—a deranged proclamation reminiscent of demented Socialist Leader Biden declaring that 75,000 lightly armed Taliban forces could never defeat Afghanistan's 300,000 man NATO equipped army and air force in the week prior to the Taliban taking over the entire country—is also reminiscent of socialist leader President Lyndon Johnson constantly proclaiming the Americans were winning the Vietnam War it ended up losing—all of which was explained this week by world-renowned Canadian international relations and security expert Professor Andrew Latham, who, in his open letter “The Idea Of Total Ukrainian Victory Is Delusional”, observed about warmongering socialist idiots:

The Book of Proverbs, Chapter 26, contains this invaluable insight: “As dogs return to their vomit, so fools repeat their folly. You see those who are wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for fools than for them”.

Invaluable because, in connection with the Russia-Ukraine War, the passage powerfully illuminates the current debate about Ukraine’s future strategic prospects.

The past few months have witnessed the dog returning to its vomit in the form of any number of efforts to once again make the case that Ukraine still has a path to total victory in its war against Russia. In professional journals, on influential websites and across the full spectrum of media outlets, observers, analysts and pundits alike continue to inform us that, yes, there is a way for Ukraine to prevail over Russia, expelling the latter from all of its territory, including Crimea.

One might claim that these arguments are being advanced because the facts on the ground warrant them; because the shifting geopolitical and battlefield realities clearly indicate that the military balance is tipping in Ukraine’s favor. As Ukraine acquires more weapons (and more sophisticated weapons), it will inevitably achieve the kind of tactical advantages that will propel it first to operational and then to strategic breakthroughs, culminating in total victory. All that’s required is one more mobilization of Ukrainian youth, one more tranche of Western financial aid, one more delivery of American, French or British wonder weapons.

But the strategic, operational and tactical realities of the war simply don’t support any version of this argument. Ukraine is not prevailing at the tactical level — if anything, Russia’s advantage at there is growing rather than diminishing, as Russia outpaces Ukraine in adapting to the evolving realities of the battlefield. The net result? Russia not only remains capable of sustaining the kind of defense-in-depth that has completely frustrated all Ukrainian offensive efforts, but is increasingly able to mount successful offensives in places like Avdiivka.

In short, Russia is winning the war and there is little to suggest that any foreseeable political, economic, tactical or technological developments are likely to alter that fundamental reality.

So why are we seeing arguments about an ultimate Ukrainian battlefield triumph, in the face of all the devastatingly contradictory evidence?

Well, applying Occam’s razor — the principle that “other things being equal, simpler explanations are generally better than more complex ones” — I would suggest that the delusional belief that there is a pathway to total victory for Ukraine is based less on evolving military or geopolitical realities than on a simple psychological dynamic, one best summed up in the concept of “commitment escalation”.

According to this concept, individuals or groups sometimes exhibit a tendency to persist with a failing argument, even as that argument becomes increasingly untenable in light of the facts. This behavior is marked above all by an adherence to prior commitments — sunk costs, as the economists might put it — regardless of their present plausibility or rationality. It is a psychological dysfunction.

Applying this concept to Ukraine explains the delusional belief that despite all of Ukraine’s devastating defeats and strategic setbacks, victory is just around the corner.

Those who committed publicly to the view that Ukraine was destined to inflict a decisive defeat on Russia during the much-heralded but ultimately failed spring/summer “counteroffensive” in 2023 have irrationally doubled down on that public commitment. They have, in other words, escalated their commitment even as the facts on the ground dictate that this faith in Ukraine’s ultimate total victory is simply baseless, and that a rational person would adjust their views in light of those facts.

Put slightly differently, the more dire Ukraine’s strategic prospects have become, the more these true believers have felt compelled to concoct imagined pathways to total Ukrainian victory — despite the increasingly incontrovertible evidence that no such pathway exists.

And so, like the proverbial dog returning to its vomit, those observers who originally committed to the “Ukraine will prevail” thesis continue to return to their delusion — ever more manically expressed — that there is a pathway to total victory for Kyiv.

But there isn’t.

And the sooner policymakers and influencers on both sides of the Atlantic grasp this, the sooner we can get to a negotiated cessation of hostilities that stems, at least for the moment, the obscene carnage that has come to define this war.

[Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]

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