Bakhmut in Russian Hands, Now What? - Col Doug MacGregor (Judging Freedom)

At least 50,000 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in Bakhmut during the battle. More would have been wounded bringing to total casualties to over 100,000 in just this sector alone. The Ukrainians took huge casualties of a similar nature in previous battles where they lost most of their pre war equipment such as tanks, artillery, APCs etc. Total war casualties for the Ukrainians could easily exceed 600,000 dead and wounded.

If Ukraine gets F-16s, in an act of desperation, they will likely be flown by NATO pilots, and will be shot down like the Soviet aircraft that are now almost all lost. 

The West is running out of equipment to send to the war zone. There are calls to have a 'frozen' war like what happened in Korea, but these calls are only happening because the Western side is losing and cannot advance. The Russians would never settle for such an outcome because it would allow the rearming of Ukraine and the possible entry of NATO forces into the country.

MacGregor points out that the war is being kept alive by ideologues in the West that won't back down and hate Russia [the neocon cabal].  

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, May 24, 2023.]