This one sentence from the analysis sums it up:
Overall, the gist of his final prescriptive analysis is that: “we need our army to be a completely different, new army in order to defeat Russia.”
In addition there are a number of interesting admissions made by Ukraine's top commander such as that time is on Russia's side.
He also fantasizes about weapons systems which do not yet exist and scifi technology such as tunnel boring plasma bots turning the tide.
As the author of this analysis puts it: The vast majority of his proposal is wishful thinking.
"To win the war, we need weapons that don't exist" is effectively the same statement as "we cannot win the war".
Every day Zelensky and Co drag this shit out it's more dead Ukrainians and a shittier deal for Ukraine at the negotiating table. I hope ordinary Ukrainians won't let him get away with his plan of selling out the country and flying off to a comfortable retirement in the West.
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I also love the bit where he talks about needing new technology that doesn't exist, e.g:
Technology is the answer. We need radar-like sensors that use invisible pulses of light to detect mines in the ground and smoke-projection systems to conceal the activities of our de-mining units. We can use jet engines from decommissioned aircraft, water cannons or cluster munitions to breach mine barriers without digging into the ground. New types of tunnel excavators, such as a robot which uses plasma torches to bore tunnels, can also help.
Basically, when you cut through all the spin what he actually says is that the offensive was a failure and that Ukraine is losing the war. There is no realistic way he can get any of the things he says he'd need to win the war because the west simply doesn't have the capacity to produce them. Even if the west got serious about this, it would take years to build the factories, train the workers, and create supply chains for all this. Ukraine doesn't have years.
The impression I get from the original interview is that he's basically making excuses for why he failed, and he's covering his ass for when he ends up getting sacked.
IIRC Zaluzhny was more realistic, assessing things like a soldier; recently he speaks more and more like a politician - I mean "how to win..." is impossible, basically an outright lie.
"Realistic" is a relative term when you're talking about the people in the Kiev regime. You don't get to (and stay in) the position that he is in without being at least somewhat delusional and/or willing to lie to yourself and others about reality. He's also very likely a Nazi.
A realistic person would never find themselves in his situation, or would seek to gtfo asap. There have already been a number of rats that have fled that sinking ship, if he was realistic he would do so too. But yeah, in the Kiev regime he probably qualifies as the "voice of reason".
Of course, it's all relative both to his earlier words and to Zelensky's (yeah I know, extremely low bar). The actual realism, and best option BY FAR for the people of Ukraine, would be an immediate surrender - but the government that represents the people would never reach this situation in the first place.
You kinda have to though, Americans don't want an honest assessment of realistic options that are bad, they won't throw more resources at you if a stalemate is all they're going to get from it. Beg steal or borrow they need whatever they can get to keep the lights on.
The Americans are getting destroyed Russian equipment and dead russian soldiers for the cost of old military hardware and a small fraction of their military budget. A stalemate is an acceptable situation fror them.
yeah, i often ponder why countries accept being the patsy in proxy wars like this with the US. Have we ever not abandoned said countries before their goals are met? It can't be that the leaders are too stupid to realize the US will do it to them, right? it has to be that they are corrupt and profiting as well... Right? Is there data on this? has to be, right?
new army in order to defeat Russia.
Would that be their 4th or 5th one? Kinda lost track at this point.
