The Russian ‘War of Attrition’ Is Winning in Ukraine

with Luhansk liberated, Putin's forces are nearing major objectives in the conflict

Once upon a time the Western Media could pretend that Ukrainians were winning the war. Since then, the breakaway Luhansk Republic has been fully liberated, and the rest of the Donetsk region, where Ukraine still holds the cities of Sloviansk, Kramatorsk and Bakhmut, is now on Russia's crosshairs.

In the south, Ukraine has lost all the coastal areas in the Sea of Azov, including the port of Mariupol, and it's being pressured in the remaining Black Sea Areas - including in Odessa.

Ukraine actually can't use any of those ports because of their own sea mines that they scattered as a defensive measure against an amphibious Russian invasion.

And yet, Mockingbirds go out to work for the narrative every day, and try to tell us how the long series of Russian victories are nothing but a list of let-downs.

Maybe soon, when there is no more Ukraine to speak of, they will declare that the Nazi-friendly regime of Kiev it is fully victorious.

Every time Ukes turn tail and retreat, they are shown as heroic, facing the 'full might of Russia' - which is ludicrous, because everyone knows that Putin sent a small contingent to this 'Special Military Operation'.

Just think about the in-and-outs of endless politicians and celebrities in Kiev as a measure of Russian restrain. Would that be possible in a all-out war scenario?

Other constant in the MSM covering of the conflict is 'experts' saying that there's progress but that it's slow, when they totally miss the fundamental characteristic of the attrition techniques used by Russian coalition.

Attrition warfare 'is a military strategy consisting of belligerent attempts to win a war by wearing down the enemy to the point of collapse through continuous losses in personnel and materiel.'

The main goal to 'cause gradual attrition to the opponent eventually amounting to unacceptable or unsustainable levels for the opponent, while limiting one's own gradual losses to acceptable and sustainable levels'. 

It may sound kinda obvious, but not so much when you understand how much modern warfare relies on speed, and on massive concentration of forces (usually 3 times the defending force) leading into one big decisive battle.

Attrition warfare 'represents an attempt to grind down an opponent's ability to make war by destroying their military resources by any means: including guerrilla warfare, people's war, scorched earth and all kind of battles - apart from a decisive battle.' 

Attrition warfare 'does not include all kinds of Blitzkrieg or the use of concentration of force into a decisive battle to win.'

There is a law in warfare: the side that reinforces their army at a higher speed will normally win the war. If it were not for a most formidable coalition of Globalist and NATO forces, Ukraine would be defeated in a heartbeat for the lack of military equipment.

But not all the weapons shipments in the world can overcome the fact that Kiev does not have manpower to the task. The last desperate measure is to keep military-aged man locked up in their houses so as to be able to find them and conscript them.

Russians use relatively small amounts of troops, relying on their immense artillery superiority to weaken and crush the enemy.

So city by city the Russians go, with a strategy that is not cheered upon by 'experts', but that has served Russia well in 1812, when they won the war with attrition warfare against Napoleon.

While the east front is looking to expand at least up to the Donetsk frontier, Russians are now overturning the 2 tentative counterattacks by the Ukes: in the north in Kharkiv, and in the south outside Kherson.

July 5th, 2022

Paul Serran