Kherson Counter-Offensive Part II

 I know that I'm a detestable Putin-puppet, but maybe some of you former fans of mine who have slowed down to look at the automobile accident that is my blog can explain what's going on in this picture from last July:

That's US President Joseph R. Biden fist-bumping Saudi Arabia's defacto ruler "MBS" aka "Clown-Prince Bonesaw."  (Saudi Arabia's dejure ruler is some older man whose name I can't be bothered to look up who is hopelessly senile.  [As opposed to Biden who is still in the early stages of his dementia.])

This took place during Biden's trip to the Middle East where Biden also visited the murderously racist apartheid state of Israel (who refrained from killing any more US-American journalists and then attacking their funerals while Biden was visiting) and then he had some sort of geo-political "security" meeting with MBS and other disgusting autocrats and he also pleaded with OPEC to increase oil production because he couldn't think of any other way to fight inflation other than throwing working people out of work.

There was a lot of silly talk about Biden sullying the good name of the United States by treating with MBS as anything other than the international "pariah" that Biden said he would treat him as.  The USA is ruled by a blood-soaked oligarchy of degenerate monsters who are at least the equal of Clown-Prince Bonesaw.

I mention all these facts (or, in the parlance of shit-head liberal imperialist hacks "whataboutism") to continue talking about the Ukrainians recent counter-offensive.  First of all, let me say that the media coverage of this entire crisis has been abysmal.  Surrenders into captivity have been described as "evacuations."  Putin has been on his last legs since the beginning of the conflict.  (Sort of like how "the walls were closing in" on Trump for three years.)  Every Russian atrocity story is trumpeted as true.  Every Ukrainian accusation is reported as verified fact.  (Are Russian soldiers, like any other soldiers, capable of war crimes? Of course they are.  Is the US corporate media capable of lying through their fucking teeth as well as being detestable hypocrites? Of course they are.)  Whatever its quality; one can't deny that Western media coverage of the Ukrainian conflict has been extensive.  Much more so than, say, Clown Prince Bone-Saw's genocide in Yemen.

But the other side; both the genuine anti-war/anti-imperialists and the pro-Putin partisans appear to have almost as shaky a grasp on what is actually happening as the hypocrites, liars and stooges of the West.

So it seems to me that the Ukrainian military had more pep left in it than I or other anti-NATO watchers thought possible.  While middle-aged Ukrainian conscripts were literally being served-up as cannon-fodder to slow the Russian advance, the Ukraine's best elite troops were being armed and trained by NATO and (together with an unknown number of foreign mercenaries) thrown against some less well trained forces from the Donbas "People's Republics" forcing the Russians back across a river.  

The Ukraine still has no airforce capable of contesting the Russians.  They lack the Russians' artillery capabilities.  They can't win this war.  However, Putin clearly can't afford to do much more.  He has kept this operation small because, while the Russian economy is clearly not as moribund as it had been portrayed, it is still not able to afford a massive mobilization.  Even still, with his damaging of the Ukraine's actual power grid (in retaliation for moronic Ukrainian attacks on Russian and Donbas civilian power systems) he has shown that with little effort he could bring real pain to the Zelensky/Nazi/Oligarch Stooges' country.

Despite the fact that there seem to be a lot of genuine Nazis running around in the remaining rump-state of Ukrainie, I do not think that fascism is a popular political movement there.  But it is the one to which the USA psychopaths have given disproportionate power and influence to.  That is what Putin and Russia are fighting.

This is not the story of a plucky democracy having been invaded by an imperialist authoritarian madman.  This is the story of a country being taken over by a fascist-dominated US-puppet government that was abusing its ethnic Russian citizens and (like the shit-heads they are) seeking to threaten Russia on the USA's behalf.  The USA is conducting a fundamentally evil policy in the Ukraine and all you "liberals" who support it are hopelessly stupid.

I was going to put some links in here and there, but fuck-it.  I'm lazy.