I'm sorry to say but this is too good, Mercouris once again finding some hilarious articles to read.

First of all Financial Cope The hard lessons from Ukraine’s summer offensive This is a banger start already

The idea that Ukrainian forces, lacking any air cover, would storm through Russian lines was always going to be more of a Hollywood plotline than reality. But three months into the counteroffensive, Zelenskyy and his government are dealing with the reality that it has not achieved the desired decisive breakthrough — and are girding themselves for a drawn-out war.

Realy now? I mean realy now you were ALL literaly the ones saying and believing this? British are shameless as usual and continue to look down on their readers confident that nobody deranged enough to read FT unironicaly remembers anything beyond the articles from 2 days ago I guess.

Some US officials have complained privately to the media that Ukraine had failed during training to master modern operations that combine mechanised infantry, artillery and air defence and were too risk averse in their approach.

Ukrainian officials, meanwhile, have pointed out that American forces have themselves never conducted operations on battlefields like Ukraine’s, without air superiority, against a military the size and calibre of Russia’s, and against some of its most advanced weaponry and military technologies.

One of the main lessons of the counteroffensive so far, say analysts, is that western training of Ukrainian troops, typically of five weeks, is too short. It is not adapted to the way Ukraine fights best or to conditions on the ground, such as the impenetrable minefields or fortifications. And it takes place without the omnipresent drones hovering over the Ukrainian front lines.

“If I only did what [western militaries] taught me, I’d be dead,” says Suleman, a special forces commander in the 78th regiment. He says he had trained with American, British and Polish soldiers, all of whom offered “some good advice” but also “bad advice . . . like their way of clearing trenches. I told them: ‘Guys, this is going to get us killed.’”

I don't even have a reaction to shit other than oh no everything the Russians said is true about NATO decadence/incompetence, confirmed on MSM media but libs are still "Russian propaganda?"

There is more from that if you want to read, like Ukraine going back to "attrition war" because its their strength it is both Nazi rethoric against USSR continuing the tradition of "to the last Ukrainian". Yeah attrition works if you think the enemy will run out of soldiers before you do, just forget which country got 3x the population and which country is calling mobilization after mobilization.