🇷🇺🇺🇦 US “Stand and Fight” Strategy Amid Ukraine Proxy War…

▪️Many are rightfully perplexed over why Ukrainian commanders (and ultimately US commanders based in Germany) refuse to withdraw Ukrainian forces from hopelessly besieged and collapsing cities like Bakhmut, Avdeevka, and now Pokrovosk;

▪️But remember, the primary objective of the US proxy war in Ukraine is to extend Russia, not “save” Ukraine – in fact, the US explicitly seeks to fully spend the latter to undermine the former;

▪️When you understand this, that Ukrainian troops, their fortifications, and delaying Russian advances as much as possible, for as long as possible and at the highest cost possible, with the cost in Ukrainian lives and even ultimately territory and self-preservation no concern at all, this strategy of stand and fight makes perfect sense;

▪️Yes, withdrawals and reestablishing defenses in more logical positions like west of the Dnieper River would save Ukrainian lives and provide the best prospect of preserving at least some of Ukraine, but it would afford Russia an immediate strategic victory in the Donbass, and possibly even afford Russia a point where it could pause, rest and fully reconstitute its forces all while maintaining pressure on what is left of Ukraine and freeing up resources to confront US encroachment elsewhere along its periphery;

▪️So the fighting will continue, regardless of the outcome for Ukraine, the possibility of using European troops to swoop in and create a buffer zone and freeze the conflict means each and every Ukrainian soldier can be spent raising the cost for Russia as high as possible until then, serving US interests fully at Ukraine’s expense;

▪️Understanding that this is a US proxy war, that both Ukraine AND Europe are fully expendable from Washington’s point of view, helps build a clearer understanding of why the US is fighting this proxy war in the manner it does and why the proxies it has put into power in Ukraine and across the EU act so irrationally and in contradiction of what many would assume would be their best interests;