https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/08/19/fpfu-a19.html

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US intelligence agencies admit Ukrainian offensive will fail

Since the start of the year, the US media has promoted Ukraine's "spring offensive" as a decisive turning point in the war.

It has become clear, however, that this offensive has produced nothing but a blood-drenched debacle.

On Friday, the Washington Post published an article reporting that US intelligence agencies have concluded that the offensive will fail to reach its main objectives of driving to the Azov Sea in order to cut off the "land bridge" to the Crimean Peninsula.

The "grim" assessment means that despite the provision of tens of billions of dollars in advanced military hardware, the offensive "fell short of its goals," the Post writes.

Critically, the Post article admits that the US had known as early as February that Ukrainian forces were facing disaster.

The article continued, "Joint war games conducted by the US, British and Ukrainian militaries anticipated such losses but envisioned Kyiv accepting the casualties as the cost of piercing through Russia's main defensive line, said US and Western officials."

This is an extraordinary admission. Washington planned out an offensive operation whose success was determined by its client government in Ukraine forcing its conscript army into a massed, suicidal charge against well-defended front lines.

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Hands up everyone who correctly guessed the plan was to simply sacrifice Ukrainian cannon fodder as pawns in Biden's War on Russia, merely to secure Russian losses.