Londonrake wrote:Pyrpolizer wrote:Well Surovikin is going to be in Ukraine to direct the operations. He said it himself. He is currently in Moscow. This proves he is in a transitional state, and the current shelling of Energy infrastructure was decided before he was appointed. Why is it so difficult for you to understand the war has entered a new phase, and that's not because of him. What HE will do remains to be seen.
Spreading panic to the civilians is a war tactic. The Ukrainians are currently shelling civilians in Donesk on a daily basis. Nothing of that shows in Western media. Surovikin may try that too, but that's not how wars are won. Ukraine's houses are not made of mad bricks like in Syria...
Well, I'm not really sure what you're trying to say here (is that "confusion"
). It doesn't matter where the General is. He's the commander, the guy who commands and will undoubtedly have been doing so since his appointment. What's going on entirely fits his "form," which is a matter of easily verifiable, long record. Moreover, the reason he's obviously been appointed is - and I don't think it's contentious?
- to get the job done in his own particular way.
What does "
Why is it so difficult for you to understand the war has entered a new phase, and that's not because of him." mean? It was clearly decided to significantly escalate attacks on Ukrainian civilians after the Kerch bridge event. By coincidence the day Surovikin was appointed. He has an excellent record when it comes to the tactic and is the obvious man for the job. I would add that the bridge was obviously a strategic military target, whereas lobbing missiles and kamikaze drones into Kiev in order to kill civilians and destroy their supporting infrastructure is clearly something entirely different.
The frequent contemptuous dismissal of any Western media is really nothing more than a tactic. Much beloved of Conspiracy Theorists in particular. People who insist you have to search deep for hidden "independent" sites to find out the "real truth". It's nothing more than a crude attempt at confining debate within usually very prejudiced parameters. There must be literally thousands of news sources in the West. To insist - as some do - that they've all been taken over by somebody or other and are being compelled to push out a common mantra, or are conjointly agreeing to blacklist some events, is absurd. A convenient way of avoiding awkward views.
The case you cite (much like GR's insistence that protests in the West have been news blacklisted) is simply untrue. Right here you can find, today in the CM:
"Vladimir Rogov, a member of the Russian-installed council governing Zaporizhzhia, also in the south, said Ukraine‘s forces had intensified their overnight shelling of Russian-held Enerhodar – the town where many of the employees of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station live. Artillery fire had hit the town’s outskirts and there had been 10 strikes around a thermal power station, he said on the Telegram messaging app on Wednesday. " You can find pages of stories about the Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk. It isn't true that those events are being blacklisted.
No links were harmed in the production of this post.
TLTRD (too long to reply in detail). You also seem to need a whole novel of explanations to get the grip. Sorry I am not going to provide that, in case you don't understand something read it twice or even thrice. That's what I do, and it always works.
You haven't provided a link from CM, but the article in reality is a copy from Euroactive.
https://www.euractiv.com/section/global ... n-ukraine/It puzzles me how on earth you made yourself believe you are getting "enough" truth from westerm media. Even in cases they are forced to say something, they immediately blur it, just like this article saying:
"Artillery fire had hit the town’s outskirts and there had been 10 strikes around a thermal power station, he said on the Telegram messaging app on Wednesday.
Reuters could not independently verify battlefield reports".
And then Reuters again that knows everything from "official sources"
Ukraine accuses Russia of using Iran-made Shahed-136 “kamikaze drones”. Iran denies supplying them and the Kremlin denies using them.
However, two senior Iranian officials and two Iranian diplomats told Reuters that Tehran had promised to provide Russia with more drones and surface-to-surface missiles.
This is typical yellow press...
