Trump and Ukraine Should Concede
The Ukrainian commander in chief General Syrksi seems to have given up. Recent remarks of his suggest that he no longer sees a way to win the war. He is now simply waiting for the politicians to concede.
The Ukrainian military has recently started to move thousands of air-defense soldiers and logistic personnel into the infantry. People who were taught to detect, analyze and fight aerial targets get pushed into roles for which they did not receive training and are no qualified.
Syrski is justifying this as the only way to keep a sufficient number of men in front line trenches:
The army chief stressed that his order prohibits the transfer of highly qualified personnel who have undergone training and specialize in aircraft maintenance.
“Clearly, these are invested funds, specialists who have experience and are practically irreplaceable, on the one hand,” said Syrskyi.
“On the other hand, we fundamentally need personnel on the front, and we must maintain an adequate number of troops in our mechanized brigades. Unfortunately, mobilization capabilities do not meet this need.”
According to him, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are “reasonably” reducing the logistical component and part of the support in the military, as well as those involved in maintenance.
“Therefore, the headquarters know these tasks; they have done the calculations,” Syrskyi stated.
The number of freshly mobilized soldiers is lower than the number of losses. The military thus has to start to ‘eat itself’. The problems being caused by this will not be visible immediately but they will over time destroy the armies core functionality.
People have done all they can to avoid a service at the frontline. Commanders have been bribed to allow for their soldiers to do duty behind the front lines. Others deserted. There are thus plenty of superfluous logistic and headquarter staff that can be moved to put up a more serious resistance.
But in few week those reserves will have emptied too. Logistics will start to slow down and air defenses will fai
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