No, I don't think that Zaluzhny has any political ambitions, like say McClellan during the Civil War, but he is clearly a prima donna, much like Patton, and actually worked a few miracles in 2022. He became something of a cult hero in the Ukrainian milblogger community, and started believing in his own invincibility. He also has a big mouth and talks too much with the media about planning and ops. I was also aware that NATO advisors urged him this time last year to use a concentrated "iron fist" strategy in the South with the western weapons that were on the way but he stubbornly insisted on trying to attack on three separate fronts, while simultaneously defending Bakhmut, thus diluting the remainder of the Ukrainians' offensive strength. Hence, the failed counteroffensive that he and members of Zelensky's government broadcast to the world months before it started, giving the Russians time to turn southern Ukraine into one vast minefield.
So here we are, the moment of truth between Zaluzhny and Zelensky.
@Timber Rattler Well,a very basic truth of life is "There can only be ONE "HE MAN BOSS DOG" in ANY dog pound."
I guess we are going to find out who the top dog is in Ukraine. I can only hope that it is the right one,and the
Russian AND the Ukrainian people are not the ones to suffer the consequences.
What is needed,of course,is an uprising in Russia,however unlikely it is that will happen. There is NO person living in Russia today that was born there that has ever lived free for even ONE moment in his or her life. They are born as slaves to the state,and they die as slaves to the state.
If we don't stop this NOW while it is within our ability to do so "on the cheap/minimum loss of US lives",who is going to stop it when it happens in the US 10 or 20 years from now?
And make no mistake about it,it WILL continue to happen all over the world until people stand up to their totalitarian political masters and stop it.
AFATG,stopping it NOW in Ukraine would mean stopping it with the minimum amount of lost lives,ESPECIALLY if it would encourage the Russian people to once again overthrow Communism and have fair elections.
This would leave China as the only "National Slave State" in the world,and in this,WE,THE PEOPLE of America as as much to blame as the Chinese because we are buying from them because we can "buy low and sell high" to make more profits. Just HOW freaking stoopid ARE the globalists that think this is a good thing because they get to increase their profit margins enough to get a bonus at the end of the year?
