https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64846666
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More off the charts pathetic propaganda. The story tries to convince people that Ukraine is winning.
The price of winning?
Oleksandr Marchenko also told the BBC the remaining 4,000 civilians are living in shelters without access to gas, electricity or water.
Mr Marchenko said "not a single building" had remained untouched and that the city is "almost destroyed".
Bakhmut has seen months of fighting, as Russia tries to take charge.
"There is fighting near the city and there are also street fights," Mr Marchenko said.
Thousands of Russian troops have died trying to take Bakhmut, which had a pre-war population of around 75,000. Ukrainian commanders estimate that Russia has lost seven times as many soldiers as they have.
On Saturday, UK military intelligence said Russian advances in the northern suburbs had left the Ukraine-held sections vulnerable to Russian attacks on three sides.
Mr Marchenko accused the Russians of having "no goal" to save the city and that it wanted to commit "genocide of the Ukrainian people".
"Currently there is no communication in the city so the city is cut out, the bridges are destroyed and the tactics the Russians are using is the tactic of parched land," Mr Marchenko told the Today programme.
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The people are gone, the city is completely destroyed but that doesn't matter to NATO or the US calling the shots
NOT joining NATO would have avoided ALL of this but we the West/NATO propaganda continues to spin out misleading interpretations, like this one convincing us that all this is worth it if it keeps Russia from taking control of the city...........a city that doesn't even exist anymore.
IMO... THIS "WAR" IS JUST A HORROR SHOW & I'M PRETTY DISGUSTED WITH ALL OF THE "PLAYERS"!! ABSOLUTELY NO RESPECT FOR LIFE, EXCEPT FOR THE "HOT SHOT HEATHENS" THAT THEY ARE! I HOPE THEIR BRASS GETS POLISHED GOOD, BEFORE THE FIRES OF HELL TARNISH IT!
Ukrainian Military Vows To Hold Bakhmut As Russians Close In
Less than a week ago, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the defenders might retreat from Bakhmut and fall back to nearby positions.
But Zelenskyy’s office said Monday that he chaired a meeting in which top military brass “spoke in favor of continuing the defense operation and further strengthening our positions in Bakhmut."
The city's importance has become mostly symbolic. For Russian President Vladimir Putin, prevailing there would finally deliver some good news from the front. For Kyiv, the display of grit and defiance reinforces a message that Ukraine is holding on after a year of brutal attacks, justifying continued support from its Western allies.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin endorsed that view Monday, saying during a visit to Jordan that Bakhmut has “more of a symbolic value than … strategic and operational value.”
Moscow, he added, continues "to pour in a lot of ill-trained and ill-equipped troops” into Bakhmut, while Ukraine patiently builds “combat power” elsewhere with Western military support ahead of a possible spring offensive.
Even so, some analysts question the wisdom of pressing the Ukrainian defenders to hold out much longer. Others suggest that a tactical withdrawal may already be underway.
The Zelensky battle cry:
"We will fight for NATO until every Ukrainian is dead and my country is left in total ruins!
Biden's battle cry:
We will pour hundreds of billions into Ukraine's losing war for NATO, until every Ukrainian is dead and their country is left in total ruins..........then, we will pay trillions to rebuild Ukraine until every tax payer in the United States cries uncle!"
NATO
We will destroy Russia and Putin!
Putins battle cry:
Agree to my terms that NATO will not be allowed in Ukraine.
Zelensky, Biden, NATO:
NATO will have Ukraine or there will be nothing left of Ukraine.
Putin
NATO will NOT have Ukraine or there will be nothing left of Ukraine!
Zelensky, Biden, NATO, Putin
We all agree on just one thing then. There will be nothing left of Ukraine.
Ukrainian people
What the heck did we ever do to deserve this???
Zelensky, Biden, NATO, Putin
Shut the heck up you worthless pawns. Our cause is much more important than just human lives. This price MUST be paid because our leaders are omnipotent, acting with impunity. Listen to our propaganda and stop complaining about trivial things like human lives lost and tax dollars. There's much more at stake here.
Scott Ritter: Ukraine TRAPPED In Russian Crossfire
I REALLY BELIEVE THIS GUY KNOWS WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT
TIME WILL TELL
TURKEY WILL SAVE UKRAINE ~ GOOD GRIEF!
Turkish army has taken action against Russia! Bakhmut fortress was besieged!
Col. Tony Shaffer: Russia STRIKES Ukraine With DEVASTATING Blow
NOTHIN' QUITE LIKE THE TRUTH ✔ (IMO, OF COURSE)
U.S. munitions stockpiles are rapidly being depleted as the Ukraine war continues. Sufficient stockpiles of munitions are vital to the U.S. defense. Once the stockpiles are expended, the Department of Defense cannot simply buy more munitions—manufacturing takes years. Congress and the Department of Defense must ensure that the U.S. has sufficient stockpiles to meet the challenges of the modern era while working with manufacturers to make the industry as responsive as possible.
THANKS, MIKE!!
"U.S. lawmakers are rightly concerned about the state of munitions reserves, along with the insufficient capacity to make more. Those lawmakers have responded with different legislative proposals. The final version of the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) includes requirements for new assessments of the DOD’s ability to replenish critical munition inventories." _______________________________________
WHILE RUSSIA, ETC. ARE WORKIN' 24/7/365 HAMMERING OUT AMMO, ETC. ~~~ BIDEN & HIS ILK ARE HELL BENT ON DEPLETENG THE SPR ~ DESTROYING OUR ECONOMY ~ ANYTHING TO MAKE US VULNERABLE!!! HE NEEDS IMPEACHED & HUNG IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE ~ IMO!!!!!
WHERE'S VP HARRIS, IN ALL OF THIS???!!! STUDYING UP ON HOW TO FURTHER DESTROY THIS COUNTRY?
MY FAVORITE AMMO IS BACK! BETTER GET IT, WHILE YOU CAN!
War and making weapons is massive business.
Peace saves money and lives but steals away profits from the military industrial complex while saving the same amount of money for tax payers that foot the bill.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93industrial_complex
The expression military–industrial complex (MIC) describes the relationship between a country's military and the defense industry that supplies it, seen together as a vested interest which influences public policy.[1][2][3][4] A driving factor behind the relationship between the military and the defense-minded corporations is that both sides benefit—one side from obtaining war weapons, and the other from being paid to supply them.[5] The term is most often used in reference to the system behind the armed forces of the United States, where the relationship is most prevalent due to close links among defense contractors, the Pentagon, and politicians.[6][7] The expression gained popularity after a warning of the relationship's detrimental effects, in the farewell address of President Dwight D. Eisenhower on January 17, 1961.[8][9]
In the context of the United States, the appellation is sometimes extended to military–industrial–congressional complex (MICC), adding the U.S. Congress to form a three-sided relationship termed an "iron triangle".[10] Its three legs include political contributions, political approval for military spending, lobbying to support bureaucracies, and oversight of the industry; or more broadly, the entire network of contracts and flows of money and resources among individuals as well as corporations and institutions of the defense contractors, private military contractors, the Pentagon, Congress, and the executive branch.[11]
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http://eng.chinamil.com.cn/WORLD_209198/WorldMilitaryAnalysis/16199363.html
Data released by the US State Department on January 25 showed that US arms sales to other countries and regions had a year-over-year increase of nearly 50 percent in Fiscal Year 2022. One important reason is the escalation of the Ukraine crisis. Many analysts pointed out that the conflict between Russia and Ukraine is a tragedy for the world, but American arms dealers have made big fortune out of this crisis.
In the past year, as the conflict between Russia and Ukraine continued to escalate, the US successfully sold anxiety to Europe and NATO member states. As a result, European countries have adjusted their defense policies and increased purchases of US-made weapons.
An especially good article/explanation below:
As a self-selecting elite propounds NATO expansion, military buildup and imperialism, we must embrace peace.
The spiraling conflict over Ukraine dramatizes the power of militarism and the influence of defense contractors. A ruthless drive for markets — intertwined with imperialism — has propelled NATO expansion, while inflaming wars from Eastern Europe to Yemen.
Lobbyists poured into Washington, D.C. fêting legislators in royal style. Vice President Bruce Jackson of Lockheed became the president of the advocacy organization U.S. Committee to Expand NATO.