Russian Forces Return to Kharkov - Ukraine's Strategic Crisis Expands (TheNewAtlas)

- Russia has opened an extensive front in the Kharkov region, retaking territory lost during Ukraine's 2022 fall offensive;

- Ukraine is already suffering from a large and expanding strategic dilemma where its forces are overstretched and defense lines are collapsing;

- The opening of a new front places further pressure on Ukrainian forces, compelling Ukraine’s military leadership to exhaust what remains of their reserves;

- The only way to stop or reverse the course of the conflict in Ukraine now is for an extensive US-NATO intervention, though Western forces themselves will suffer from the same shortages their Ukrainian proxies now face;



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What a lot of Western commentators 'get wrong', likely they lie, is that the Ukrainian offensive that took back territory in 2022 was actually a Russian strategic withdrawal. Yes, some Russian forces got caught out at this time, but basically they realised they were overextended with the small force they initially sent in and then spent the next year or so building up to their present position. The video reiterates a lot of previous points about the conflict, that it is a war of attrition and not necessarily about territory, and that it is industrial war, something the West is no longer any good at.

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, May 19, 2024.]