Russia Ukraine war, page-163788

Russian forces have made no headway along the front lines, but are entrenched in heavily mined areas they control, making it difficult for Ukrainian troops to move east and south, Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday. Deputy Ukrainian Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said Russian forces had “tried quite persistently to halt our advance in the Bakhmut sector. Without success”. Russian forces, she wrote on the Telegram messaging app, were beefing up reserves and equipment in three areas further north, where heavy fighting has also been reported in recent weeks.(source The Guardian 4th Aug)


Forget the propaganda; this war is bogged-down with
negligible gains on either sides and with massive loss
of lives and equipment on both sides :....a classic war of attrition!




IMO the Ukraine is merely ground meat in the US-NATO-Russian Tripple Burger
(would you like tactical nukes with that?......and have a nice day)
which is a tragedy for the Ukrainian people and a post-Covid economic shock
for the rest of the world

Months before this war our RBA was forecasting its 0.1% (vitually Zero)
interest rate out to 2024-25.... Now consider the pain and suffering that these War interest
rates increases and inflation has put to the Aussie poor & working class and the diversion
of hundreds of $millions to the Ukraine rather than addressing homelessness at home.?

We had similar barrackers for wars in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam
and now look at the outcomes? Given the benefit of hindsight, it would have been
much better for humanity if these wars had never happened.

Events lading up to this war were in Cool Hand Luke's language
"A failure to communicate" and in another US movie's saying:
"Play it again Sam"