July 19, 2022
A former top U.S. general said last week that Ukrainian fighters could end up pushing Russian troops back to the border in 2023 by winning the war of attrition because Moscow’s forces are “exhausted” and they “don’t have much else they can do right now.”
Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges told Business Insider that he believes Ukrainian forces are about to make noticeable gains because they can now employ advanced rocket systems.
“It looks to me that wherever the Russians do not have overwhelming firepower advantage, and Ukrainians win 100 times out of 100,” he told the website. “So providing the Ukrainians ability to strike Russian artillery, Russian rockets, their ammunition storage, add command posts, that’s what destroys and disrupts the one thing that the Russians have that is to their advantage.”
Retired U.S. military officers who have never won a war in their lives yet pretend to have some insider knowledge about the realities on the ground in Ukraine, and, in most cases, present a rosy picture about the prospects of an eventual Ukrainian victory.
There are a few reasons for this. Agreeing with the accepted consensus in the mainstream media means you’ll be invited to CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC to offer insight, which could lead to a paid “military analyst” gig. (See “U.S. LOST EVERY WAR SINCE WWII, BUT IS TELLING UKRAINE HOW TO BEAT RUSSIA.”)
In the early stages of the war, these would-be analysts insisted that Ukrainian fighters were simply outperforming the Russians, who were supposedly in disarray.
Ret. Gen. David Petraeus, who hasn’t won a war since he’s been in command and was defeated in both the Afghan and Iraq wars, must have received the script at the time.
Petraeus, a partner at KKR, the private equity giant, compared Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to Winston Churchill and said Ukrainians are exploiting their “home-field advantage.”
But now even Kyiv admits that Russia and separatists control some 20 percent of the country. The accepted theory now is that once Ukrainians obtain enough HIMARS and other advanced rocket systems they will even the playing field.
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