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Sep 12 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The situation in Ukraine is becoming clearer. The biggest Kiev regime counter-offensive is yet to come, most likely in the SouthEast from the Ugledar direction towards Mariupol and potentially even Donetsk city. 1/-
^ 2/- The New Kiev regime counteroffensive in the SE contains a substantial armored first of Polish-supplied modernized T72s and IFVs. Lacking sufficient manpower in the intervention force to protect all occupied territory, the Kremlin prioritized & sacrificed the Kharkov region
3/-  in order to have enough reserves to combat this coming southern thrust, Russian forces actually began withdrawing from Kharkov a week ago in secret. The biggest and most decisive battle of the year is yet to come.
4/- The primary goal of the Kiev regime counteroffensive in the Kharkov region may actually have been to tie up Russian reserves to facilitate the coming regime counteroffensive in the SE. Instead Russia completely withdrew from Kharkov. Will Kiev now change plans or push on?

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The attempted assassination of Dugin which instead resulted in the killing of his daughter, was part of the increasingly demented propaganda & infowar of a desperate & crumbling US proxy Putsch regime in Kiev in lieu of success on the battlefield of which it is incapable 1/
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Objectivity is not dead. Objectivity never existed. It was always a figment, a fairy-tale, a scam... Its just that now even the pretense of it has been tossed to the gutter. The glowing neon of Post-modernity has no need of such mythology... 1/-
^ 2/- Quote "Theory is always for someone and for some purpose. All theories have a perspective. Perspectives derive from a position in time and space, specifically social and political time and space.
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When Westerners are so locked up in their Exceptionalism that they convince themselves despite not speaking Russian or Ukrainian that they know more about what is "really" happening there than Russians do, many w friends & family in Ukraine, and 5 million Ukrns residing in Russia
The reality is that the average Russian, through standard Russian media, Telegram, and hearing from actual Ukrainians, knows far far more about what is really happening in Ukraine, and has been happening there for the last 8+ years, than the average Westerner does. @MaxAbrahms
Just going out to walk my dogs over the last week I have had/heard conversations w other dog walkers about someone who's aunt survived Azov in Mariupol, artillery positions in Izyum & the latest "traitor" Ukrn official gunned down on the street by Banderites in Kiev @MaxAbrahms
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We are seeing the Russian intervention in #Ukraine enter a new more realistic sequential conflict phase that will be characterized by:
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- once objectives met, reinforcement, consolidation, new objectives set
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- war of attrition
- periodic lulls for reinforcement, consolidation, and logistics
- continued jar jar diplomacy noises, likely temporary ceasefires followed by renewed conflict
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- elusive Russian political goals never satisfactorily met by Maidan regime in Kiev
- likely interrum goal of spurring political instability in Kiev by saddling w temporary humiliating terms, possibly resulting in Zelenskiy overthrow/assassination by own far right forces
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This is #theGreatDecoupling between the West and Russia. Economic linkages will be cut down to only energy and a few other commodities & chemicals that Europe is dependent on Russia for. The West controls and has weaponized their entire economy in their war to break Russia. 1/-
^ 2/- Political, social and cultural linkages will also be severed to a high degree. Weaning Russia off this dependence will be hard and immiserating. But with Chinese and some other Eurasian support, Russia may just weather it. The entire global economy will suffer as well.
^ 3/- But once the dust has settled and new domestic and import substitution formed - Russia will at least be economically & financially independent from the West. They will never again be able to weaponize their economic hegemony to coerce, blackmail, or wage war on Russia.
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States have never been able to choose their alliances freely. Under post-Cold War US suzerainty it has been "for me & mine, but not for you". Is Syria or Venezuela free to choose Iran as an ally? Is Turkey or Germany free to trade w Russia? No, not without punishment from the US.
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