Russia Closing Bakhmut Cauldron, Belarus Rejects Ukraine Offer; West Escalates, Sends Kiev Tanks (Alexander Mercouris)

Russian artillery production will be sufficient to sustain the present level of bombardments in support of the advances and the Western tanks will be too little too late. They'll be chewed up like the other equipment that has been sent to the battlefields.

Addition comment:

The end of the video mentions that the Russians are producing 3.4 million 152mmm artillery shells per year, and likely double, whereas the US is looking to "ramp up" to perhaps 1 million shells per year, going from 15k per month to 90k per month. The Russians fire about 20k per day, and the Ukrainians fire about 1 to 6k per day. The point of this is that the Russian side can just line up opposite the defensive positions of the Ukrainians and just blast the heck out of them, using invasive drones as spotters.

Also, the Western tanks are likely to be destroyed in the same way as most of the 1000 Ukrainian ones were during the course of the fighting. The Russians have said they are not concerned with any of this equipment - that will take many months to arrive, if at all.

Plus, it is unlikely there will be any serious surrender talks from Ukraine until they are completely falling apart. Peace negotiations will not work now. It'll be more like surrender and occupation. The Russians no longer trust any Western treaties since they were admittedly double crossed with the Minsk agreements that were Machiavellian in nature. Talk of tanks in the last 10 mins.

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, January 27, 2023.]