Thread by @imetatronink

🧵Ukraine War Update – 2022-09-11

So … the wife and I took the grandsons on a weekend trip from which we’ve just returned. Was incommunicado almost the entire time – ten hours of which was driving.

I see there have been some new developments in the war. 😱🤣

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It’s going to take a while to catch up on all the news and commentary produced over the past couple days.

As for the many hundreds of “notifications” I have – well, I opted to just purge the obvious trolls and skip the rest. I simply don’t have time to respond to them all.

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Unsurprisingly, there have been laughably exaggerated reactions at both extremes of the fan section. Most on #TeamUkraine are shit-faced drunk with comical delusions of glorious triumph; too much of #TeamRussia is shit-faced drunk with pathetic delusions of doom.

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For my own part, I am genuinely stunned that AFU commanders have not only committed another monumental blunder, but have been lured so transparently into doing so – and to a degree Russian commanders could only have dreamed of.

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The Ukrainians even struggled to match the speed with which the Russians produced the vacuum that drew the under-powered AFU force into a series of fire pockets and ambushes that have already exacted a horrific toll of losses that will soon exceed that seen in Kherson.

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And now it appears the Russians are ready to reveal the hand they’ve kept tied behind their back since this “special military operation” commenced on February 28th.

It took them all of two hours earlier this evening to literally “turn out the lights” in much of Ukraine.

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I've repeatedly stated the following in recent days:

“Nothing will end this war faster than continuing Ukrainian ‘counter-offensives’ of the type we have seen over the last few days.”

It remains true.

I will post tomorrow a more lengthy analysis of these developments …

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