Azov Commanders Return, 6th Column Goes Crazy

Azov Commanders Return, 6th Column Goes Crazy
Let’s get right to the biggest news of the day, which will have the concern-troll and 6th columnist mills in overdrive for the next week or so. Big bad Putin released the evil Azov commanders back into Ukraine:
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At the end of the day, this is a highly orchestrated and coordinated propaganda event meant to shore up Ukrainian and Western morale at a critical time when the Western effort in Ukraine is actually facing collapse—which I’ll get to in a moment.

The two main important upcoming dates are the Vilnius NATO summit of July 11 and the grain deal extension set to expire on July 17. Both of these play heavily into what’s going on. But here’s what the real issue is: the critical announcement of U.S. supplying cluster munitions to Ukraine lifts the lid on the actual stark reality under-girding everything.
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First, we must admire his attempt to couch and conceal the final revelation for as long as possible. He fronts it with an array of verbal tricks and misdirection by claiming Ukraine itself is being attacked by cluster munitions, then saying the Ukrainians are running out of ammunition. But recall what I just said, this implicitly means it’s the U.S. that’s running out of ammunition. But after stalling for as long as possible, perhaps hoping his soporific performance puts people to sleep before they can hear the inevitable punchline beyond the mumbling cliffhanger, he finally gives up the plot: “and uh…we’re low on it.”

So, he could have done away with the entire deceptive preamble and just said: “We’re low on regular 155mm and all we have left to give them are the clusters.”

You see, the types of cluster munitions they’re getting are the ones fired from 155mm artillery units, so this is U.S.’s desperate attempt to tide them over and give them at least something to fire from their dwindling artillery stocks.
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Talk of the US Sending "Cluster Munitions" to Ukraine is a Result of Dwindling 155mm Artillery Shells, Wall Street Journal

A WSJ article (https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/south-korean-artillery-supply-allows-u-s-to-delay-decision-on-cluster-munitions-for-ukraine-4e41c04b) reveals that recent talk of the US sending "cluster munitions" to Ukraine centers on what are actually 155mm artillery shells with cluster munitions.

This is not to provide Ukraine with some sort of new capability but because of the critical shortage of conventional artillery shells Ukraine is facing and the collective West's inability to meet that demand.

In other words, the 155mm cluster munitions is all that's left laying around.
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Folks, this is a critical admission. This is an admission by the head of the United States that they’re unable to supply Ukraine with regular 155mm, which means the entire Ukrainian war effort is on the brink of collapse. This is the reason the Turkish ploy was suddenly sprung on Russia out of sheer desperation, to cover a catastrophic scenario.
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In short, things are going disastrously for the West and they are desperate for any possible propaganda victory. This ‘Azov’ return is absolutely meaningless, and in fact I welcome it because it gives those Azov ‘commanders’ a chance to actually get liquidated on the field now rather than safely last out the conflict in captivity. Presumably, the next Russian soldiers to capture them won’t take them prisoner for the obvious reason.

The bottom line is that all of the West is signaling “peace talks” to end the conflict by this year’s end. This is not a sign of confidence or impending victory. The AFU is staring down the abyss just like their Western masters.
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