Many newspaper reporters cover this war. But I know of only one newspaper reporter turned army leader who successfully understood the facts of war to direct troops from Vladivostok to Warsaw. Leon Bronstein, called Trotsky, covered the Balkan Wars as a newspaperman. As War Minister under Lenin, he used railroads out of Moscow to move his troops rapidly to bring power to bear over the battlefields of the Soviets against the Whites and their Allies.
Here the approach to the Ukrainian Genocidal War started by Russia fails to adequately explain the tenets of war practiced by the opposing sides. Your initial problem first covers the potential users of Depleted Uranium (DU) and, second, the thrust of the British to cheerlead, increasing the land scope of the Ukrainian War. You appear to lean toward the poorly performing Russians by blaming the Ukrainian use of DU and British warmongering.
Author Cook did not discuss Chernobyl, as it is part of Ukraine. Built shabbily by the controlling Russians, it will continue to dominate the present continuing effects of DU daily, while other Russian forces in other parts of the Ukraine control atomic plants ready to implode, according to their UN inspectors.
Contrast Russian abuse of the present DU use versus the specific future use of DU bombs to more effectively destroy tanks, artillery, moving vehicles, and fortifications by planes in the sky. America has not released these airplanes carrying 250-pound bombs for use on the battlefield. The success of the counteroffensive will be based on specific targeting by a squadron of slow-flying jet planes presently being trained by Americans in Syria. These planes recently defeated a mixed Russian Mercenary and Syrian attack on an American base in Kurdish territory.
In addition, the Russians have abused the use of white-hot Phosphorus over battlefields earlier at Mariupol’s steel mills and recently in the Donbas. I would consider that the Russians are responsible for 99% of Ukraine's present use of DU and phosphorus.
My problem with the description of the British interests is off the mark. As an island nation, Britain depends on its navy, for whom the latest developments to protect or sink ships are being made. They are proud of their latest in naval warfare. Their role is that after the counteroffensive cuts off the land routes to Crimea, its ship-busting capability would reject resupplying Russian navigation of the Black Sea to Crimea.
These are some lessons of war that you overlooked. Even Great Britain understands she is not involved in planning land adventures. Yes, the British have done well in the Black Sea, having weapons that destroyed major Russian warships in the Black Sea.
President Zelensky, as Time Magazine Man of the Year, is finding that to recreate a full Ukrainian victory, he will portray his next actor upgrade as a master of the universe. It is one thing to go plate in penitent hand to the world dressed in army underwear. Remember, Ukraine won two extensive victories in the East and South during the war. Their needs are specific upgrades to the army, like hundreds of armored personnel carriers, often with canon and slow-flying airplanes to appear on the battlefields at the appropriate time together.
Airplane-tank use begins with tank training and deploying with airplanes, as the German Marshal of Blitzkrieg, Erich von Manstein, taught in France and Belgium in 1940. Airplane-tank exercises are needed but unlikely to be used by the F16 and Abrams tanks in time. The Ukrainians have previously won offensives in the East and South. To continue their success, they must need armored canon-carrying personnel vehicles needed in the fluid battlefield of a Counteroffensive.
The Ukrainians instead plan an American-style counteroffensive that depends on the breakup of Russian military concentrations and preparations miles from the battlefield, avoiding trench-style warfare. America has not delivered this equipment yet, and I expect the first counteroffensive to be bogged down after an advance of 30 miles. The success of the Ukrainian small unit squad in the initial phases of the war matched the original use of these German-style tactics at Normandy, which held the United States offensive advance in check for two months until the German reserves were expended. If the Russians caught on to this success, this would be a debilitating obstacle to overcome. We have given the Russians time to build a static battlefield far from the present front lines.
A second counteroffensive would depend on the Ukrainian control of the preparation and fighting over the battlefield. Their experience suggests they know the best way to move forward. The overview is that America is using the situation to rebuild its arsenal for future wars against China. Now the factories are reopening, and skilled workers are becoming available to work not only in the United States but in other countries of the world for future American stockpiles, but no factories are for rebuilding in Ukraine. The billions of appropriations for Ukraine are actually a major step in rebuilding American armaments for war with China.
The next question is the proper use of President Zelensky in the peace process. Should Zelensky involve himself in a peace treaty by giving up land, this would doom his leadership role of fighting for total victory as the Ukrainians do by following him. The world-winged tour of European capitals had been expanded monthly from the Vatican to Japan.
He appears with a penitent plate in hand in the uniform of underwear of the Ukrainian soldier.
Zelensky now carries the glories of the defense of Ukraine to the world. This would be as master of the world to be accompanied by the superweapons available but not used by him. One also should think he will be considering future developments, including reparations for the Ukrainians consisting of Russian Oil from the Caucus while planning for the breakup of NATO with sovereign nations of the Russian Eastern and Southern Borders specifically aimed at providing deterrence to Russia. These nations would unite in a new regional theatre organization of the Eastern and Southern Rus in contrast to the Atlantic and Mediterranean effective security surviving as NATO. Some NATO nations see Russia as a partner in energy use like France and Germany and not as the enemy.
America has fallen so far behind in weapon development and maintenance that second-position nations like Britain are ahead of us. Impressing this on the public shows that Americans will likely lose the next war or two wars simultaneously. It may cause us to think that the British are now the arsenal of democracy. We must be willing to reclaim this position as a foreign policy to forestall future wars.
America has not developed new weapons or recent upgrades of competitive weapons to match other free nations. Our new-year-old naval frigates are unusable and rot at sea. The few high-end American land-based warships are a prop for a master of the universe and a wake-up call that America is far behind in developing high-end weapons for itself.
Instead, the Ukrainians desire low-end weapons necessary to augment Ukrainian offensive capabilities. Hundreds of these vehicles are necessary for protecting Ukrainian soldiers in an offensive. These deliveries are probably close to being fulfilled by the end of May.
It is interesting to view the strategy of the children's game Monopoly being played out until victory. When Putin loses Broadway and Park Place, or Sevastopol and Crimea fall, Putin loses even his Dacha, which is in Crimea. Putin's leadership is tied to his regaining lost Russian lands and not losing these lands again. 1776 is the year of the Russian founding of this Potemkin Village for a Black Sea Fleet, presently a national treasure of Sevastopol for the Russians.
The Ukrainians appear to be using the tactics of Ukrainian-born Soviet Marshal Rodion Malinovsky and his teacher Marshal Vasily Bleucher or Stern, a Jewish Soviet Marshal. Bleucher trained Ho Chi Minh, Mao Tse tung and Chou En lai. These Soviet officers are superb military-political generals to follow —Bleucher with his 51st. Iron Division conquered Crimea in 1920 against the Whites and European allies. Malinovsky's Odesa troops were involved in the defense of Sevastopol in 1942 and its reconquest by the Malinovsky-led Second Ukrainian Front of a million men in 1944.
Listen for the next time they say on the media, Malinovsky says. In February 2022 was the only time I heard that call when Malinovsky's name over the radio dictated in code the call up of Ukrainian territorial defensive forces and elite airborne of the war. While Moscow has a military academy named after Malinovsky, a former decade-long Minister of Defense and remover of Nikita Khrushchev during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962-64. The unknown Malinovsky think tank in Kyiv is more appropriate as the think tank of the Ukrainian military.
It is odd that over a few short months from 'sending tanks would cause WW3' (Biden) to the normalising of sending DU, tanks, and F16's, basically everything to provoke WW3.
Russia's high tolerance and Putin's pragmatism is the only thing preventing WW3. We blow up their pipe lines, we send military 'trainers' we supply air defense/satellite info to kill their soldiers, long range missiles etc etc... our Royal Marines admit to working in Ukraine doing 'operations', we attack their crucial infrastructure, turn a blind eye to the murder of Russian journalists and terrorist attacks on civilians...and the Kremlin...and Russia does not respond...in kind, to us....thankfully, but for how long?
Thank you, Jonathan. Nothing at all surprises me about the perfidy of the Anglo (US-UK) axis of evil. Both countries have committed endless sadistic crimes and continue to do so unabated. So this is exactly as expected, and exactly why the world will breathe an enormous sigh of relief when these criminally insane countries' governments are overthrown and pro-humanity structures replace them.
a pularalistic society seeks comprise and consensus to move forward. Ukraine is not that yet but moving in that direction. An authoritarian state crushes opposition, that's it. you're suggesting that Ukraine should agree to become enslaved because some third parties are war profiteering from this situation. Don't go after the war profiteering, capitulate to slavery. Have you checked to see if you are sponsored by the Koch brothers? a few evil people win because the large number of good people do nothing. silence is complicity. What you are doing is whispering in ears saying just give up, it's actually a good thing. just accept your fate, it is sealed. who is the worst, the Koch brothers (or what they represent), or their willing enablers like yourself?
Thank you for your work Jonathan! The parts surrounding the misleading use of institutions like the Royal Society to “back” their claims regarding DU munitions is very useful indeed!
Thank you for this incissive contribution.The greatest tragedy, and there can be no other word for it , is that the information is carefully hidden from the British public who pay in kind and indirect suffering.You might have included the military presence official and otherwise recent and long term and lack of Parliamentary discussion .
One fears ihat would have been of little use as both leaders compete for their Churchllian moment while defering to US dictates
If only the European radiation monitoring web page hadn't gone down last week... If anyone has seen the images of the strike on the ammo dump and the molten metal fountain at the core of the plume/mushroom, then they would be watching prevailing wind and precipitation with interest... WNW to Poland and the staging posts, into Germany and across Denmark and the UK... Fortunately for the latter, a lot of rain initially over Ukraine and Poland. Not so fortunate for the former.
2 fading empires taking down Russia and the nations in-between using up the weaponry vestiges that made both bullies so dominant in the 1st place: weapons of mass destructionn. Wake up Europe. Stop the bullies. Kick NATO out. Demand Ukraine settles its civil war with its people and its dispute with Rusdia. Both very much intertwined.
It's Russian warmongering you should be talking about.
Thanks Jonathan, excellent read…as ever
To jonathancook@substack.com
Many newspaper reporters cover this war. But I know of only one newspaper reporter turned army leader who successfully understood the facts of war to direct troops from Vladivostok to Warsaw. Leon Bronstein, called Trotsky, covered the Balkan Wars as a newspaperman. As War Minister under Lenin, he used railroads out of Moscow to move his troops rapidly to bring power to bear over the battlefields of the Soviets against the Whites and their Allies.
Here the approach to the Ukrainian Genocidal War started by Russia fails to adequately explain the tenets of war practiced by the opposing sides. Your initial problem first covers the potential users of Depleted Uranium (DU) and, second, the thrust of the British to cheerlead, increasing the land scope of the Ukrainian War. You appear to lean toward the poorly performing Russians by blaming the Ukrainian use of DU and British warmongering.
Author Cook did not discuss Chernobyl, as it is part of Ukraine. Built shabbily by the controlling Russians, it will continue to dominate the present continuing effects of DU daily, while other Russian forces in other parts of the Ukraine control atomic plants ready to implode, according to their UN inspectors.
Contrast Russian abuse of the present DU use versus the specific future use of DU bombs to more effectively destroy tanks, artillery, moving vehicles, and fortifications by planes in the sky. America has not released these airplanes carrying 250-pound bombs for use on the battlefield. The success of the counteroffensive will be based on specific targeting by a squadron of slow-flying jet planes presently being trained by Americans in Syria. These planes recently defeated a mixed Russian Mercenary and Syrian attack on an American base in Kurdish territory.
In addition, the Russians have abused the use of white-hot Phosphorus over battlefields earlier at Mariupol’s steel mills and recently in the Donbas. I would consider that the Russians are responsible for 99% of Ukraine's present use of DU and phosphorus.
My problem with the description of the British interests is off the mark. As an island nation, Britain depends on its navy, for whom the latest developments to protect or sink ships are being made. They are proud of their latest in naval warfare. Their role is that after the counteroffensive cuts off the land routes to Crimea, its ship-busting capability would reject resupplying Russian navigation of the Black Sea to Crimea.
These are some lessons of war that you overlooked. Even Great Britain understands she is not involved in planning land adventures. Yes, the British have done well in the Black Sea, having weapons that destroyed major Russian warships in the Black Sea.
President Zelensky, as Time Magazine Man of the Year, is finding that to recreate a full Ukrainian victory, he will portray his next actor upgrade as a master of the universe. It is one thing to go plate in penitent hand to the world dressed in army underwear. Remember, Ukraine won two extensive victories in the East and South during the war. Their needs are specific upgrades to the army, like hundreds of armored personnel carriers, often with canon and slow-flying airplanes to appear on the battlefields at the appropriate time together.
Airplane-tank use begins with tank training and deploying with airplanes, as the German Marshal of Blitzkrieg, Erich von Manstein, taught in France and Belgium in 1940. Airplane-tank exercises are needed but unlikely to be used by the F16 and Abrams tanks in time. The Ukrainians have previously won offensives in the East and South. To continue their success, they must need armored canon-carrying personnel vehicles needed in the fluid battlefield of a Counteroffensive.
The Ukrainians instead plan an American-style counteroffensive that depends on the breakup of Russian military concentrations and preparations miles from the battlefield, avoiding trench-style warfare. America has not delivered this equipment yet, and I expect the first counteroffensive to be bogged down after an advance of 30 miles. The success of the Ukrainian small unit squad in the initial phases of the war matched the original use of these German-style tactics at Normandy, which held the United States offensive advance in check for two months until the German reserves were expended. If the Russians caught on to this success, this would be a debilitating obstacle to overcome. We have given the Russians time to build a static battlefield far from the present front lines.
A second counteroffensive would depend on the Ukrainian control of the preparation and fighting over the battlefield. Their experience suggests they know the best way to move forward. The overview is that America is using the situation to rebuild its arsenal for future wars against China. Now the factories are reopening, and skilled workers are becoming available to work not only in the United States but in other countries of the world for future American stockpiles, but no factories are for rebuilding in Ukraine. The billions of appropriations for Ukraine are actually a major step in rebuilding American armaments for war with China.
The next question is the proper use of President Zelensky in the peace process. Should Zelensky involve himself in a peace treaty by giving up land, this would doom his leadership role of fighting for total victory as the Ukrainians do by following him. The world-winged tour of European capitals had been expanded monthly from the Vatican to Japan.
He appears with a penitent plate in hand in the uniform of underwear of the Ukrainian soldier.
Zelensky now carries the glories of the defense of Ukraine to the world. This would be as master of the world to be accompanied by the superweapons available but not used by him. One also should think he will be considering future developments, including reparations for the Ukrainians consisting of Russian Oil from the Caucus while planning for the breakup of NATO with sovereign nations of the Russian Eastern and Southern Borders specifically aimed at providing deterrence to Russia. These nations would unite in a new regional theatre organization of the Eastern and Southern Rus in contrast to the Atlantic and Mediterranean effective security surviving as NATO. Some NATO nations see Russia as a partner in energy use like France and Germany and not as the enemy.
America has fallen so far behind in weapon development and maintenance that second-position nations like Britain are ahead of us. Impressing this on the public shows that Americans will likely lose the next war or two wars simultaneously. It may cause us to think that the British are now the arsenal of democracy. We must be willing to reclaim this position as a foreign policy to forestall future wars.
America has not developed new weapons or recent upgrades of competitive weapons to match other free nations. Our new-year-old naval frigates are unusable and rot at sea. The few high-end American land-based warships are a prop for a master of the universe and a wake-up call that America is far behind in developing high-end weapons for itself.
Instead, the Ukrainians desire low-end weapons necessary to augment Ukrainian offensive capabilities. Hundreds of these vehicles are necessary for protecting Ukrainian soldiers in an offensive. These deliveries are probably close to being fulfilled by the end of May.
It is interesting to view the strategy of the children's game Monopoly being played out until victory. When Putin loses Broadway and Park Place, or Sevastopol and Crimea fall, Putin loses even his Dacha, which is in Crimea. Putin's leadership is tied to his regaining lost Russian lands and not losing these lands again. 1776 is the year of the Russian founding of this Potemkin Village for a Black Sea Fleet, presently a national treasure of Sevastopol for the Russians.
The Ukrainians appear to be using the tactics of Ukrainian-born Soviet Marshal Rodion Malinovsky and his teacher Marshal Vasily Bleucher or Stern, a Jewish Soviet Marshal. Bleucher trained Ho Chi Minh, Mao Tse tung and Chou En lai. These Soviet officers are superb military-political generals to follow —Bleucher with his 51st. Iron Division conquered Crimea in 1920 against the Whites and European allies. Malinovsky's Odesa troops were involved in the defense of Sevastopol in 1942 and its reconquest by the Malinovsky-led Second Ukrainian Front of a million men in 1944.
Listen for the next time they say on the media, Malinovsky says. In February 2022 was the only time I heard that call when Malinovsky's name over the radio dictated in code the call up of Ukrainian territorial defensive forces and elite airborne of the war. While Moscow has a military academy named after Malinovsky, a former decade-long Minister of Defense and remover of Nikita Khrushchev during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962-64. The unknown Malinovsky think tank in Kyiv is more appropriate as the think tank of the Ukrainian military.
Leonard R. Friedman, MD friedman119@gmail.com
It is odd that over a few short months from 'sending tanks would cause WW3' (Biden) to the normalising of sending DU, tanks, and F16's, basically everything to provoke WW3.
Russia's high tolerance and Putin's pragmatism is the only thing preventing WW3. We blow up their pipe lines, we send military 'trainers' we supply air defense/satellite info to kill their soldiers, long range missiles etc etc... our Royal Marines admit to working in Ukraine doing 'operations', we attack their crucial infrastructure, turn a blind eye to the murder of Russian journalists and terrorist attacks on civilians...and the Kremlin...and Russia does not respond...in kind, to us....thankfully, but for how long?
Thank you, Jonathan. Nothing at all surprises me about the perfidy of the Anglo (US-UK) axis of evil. Both countries have committed endless sadistic crimes and continue to do so unabated. So this is exactly as expected, and exactly why the world will breathe an enormous sigh of relief when these criminally insane countries' governments are overthrown and pro-humanity structures replace them.
a pularalistic society seeks comprise and consensus to move forward. Ukraine is not that yet but moving in that direction. An authoritarian state crushes opposition, that's it. you're suggesting that Ukraine should agree to become enslaved because some third parties are war profiteering from this situation. Don't go after the war profiteering, capitulate to slavery. Have you checked to see if you are sponsored by the Koch brothers? a few evil people win because the large number of good people do nothing. silence is complicity. What you are doing is whispering in ears saying just give up, it's actually a good thing. just accept your fate, it is sealed. who is the worst, the Koch brothers (or what they represent), or their willing enablers like yourself?
It could go nuclear at any moment.
Cold war? Stop saying that.
It's not going to be a new cold war.
The war ON Russia is going to be hot.
Sun hot.
There's a few sane voices left on the level and danger of nuclear weapons.
Thank you for your work Jonathan! The parts surrounding the misleading use of institutions like the Royal Society to “back” their claims regarding DU munitions is very useful indeed!
Thank you.
Thank you for this incissive contribution.The greatest tragedy, and there can be no other word for it , is that the information is carefully hidden from the British public who pay in kind and indirect suffering.You might have included the military presence official and otherwise recent and long term and lack of Parliamentary discussion .
One fears ihat would have been of little use as both leaders compete for their Churchllian moment while defering to US dictates
You might be interested in this, an advert for mercenaries from Africa and the Middle East to fight in Ukraine in exchange for citizenship.
https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/4095390986
If only the European radiation monitoring web page hadn't gone down last week... If anyone has seen the images of the strike on the ammo dump and the molten metal fountain at the core of the plume/mushroom, then they would be watching prevailing wind and precipitation with interest... WNW to Poland and the staging posts, into Germany and across Denmark and the UK... Fortunately for the latter, a lot of rain initially over Ukraine and Poland. Not so fortunate for the former.
British policy is to stir up conflict whenever possible in order to show its American master how slavishly loyal it is.
2 fading empires taking down Russia and the nations in-between using up the weaponry vestiges that made both bullies so dominant in the 1st place: weapons of mass destructionn. Wake up Europe. Stop the bullies. Kick NATO out. Demand Ukraine settles its civil war with its people and its dispute with Rusdia. Both very much intertwined.
Cheers