{"id":273141,"date":"2023-09-10T07:02:51","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T07:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=273141"},"modified":"2023-09-11T17:20:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T17:20:12","slug":"ukraine-sitrep-western-military-commentators-finally-accept-the-obvious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=273141","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine SitRep: Western Military Commentators Finally Accept The Obvious"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Moon of Alabama \u2013 July 9, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The Kuebler-Ross model of grief describes the human coping mechanism to deal with extremely difficult situations. It has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/stories-53267505\">five phases<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>denial &#8211; &#8220;No, not me, it cannot be true&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>anger &#8211; &#8220;Why me?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>bargaining &#8211; attempting to postpone death with &#8220;good behaviour&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>depression &#8211; when reacting to their illness, and preparing for their death<\/li>\n<li>acceptance &#8211; &#8220;The final rest before the long journey&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With regard to the Ukrainian counter-offensive the last phase of the grief model has now been reached.<\/p>\n<p>While not all politician are yet there, the military and intelligence specialists, who are part of the western propaganda squads, have made their conclusions. From their mouth the truth is dripping to the media. While the headlines below may not express it the content of those pieces, especially in the first four, is finally admitting the obvious. It didn&#8217;t work and the counter-offensive is done:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rusi.org\/explore-our-research\/publications\/special-resources\/stormbreak-fighting-through-russian-defences-ukraines-2023-offensive\">Stormbreak: Fighting Through Russian Defences in Ukraine\u2019s 2023 Offensive<\/a> &#8211; <em>RUSI<\/em> &#8211; September 4<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/warontherocks.com\/2023\/09\/perseverance-and-adaptation-ukraines-counteroffensive-at-three-months\/\">Perseverance and Adaptation: Ukraine\u2019s Counteroffensive at Three Months<\/a> &#8211; <em>War on the Rocks<\/em> &#8211; September 4<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/ukraine\/russians-are-getting-better-learning\">The Russians Are Getting Better &#8211; What Moscow Has Learned in Ukraine<\/a> &#8211; <em>Foreign Affairs<\/em>, September 6<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/united-states\/2023\/09\/06\/how-the-pentagon-assesses-ukraines-progress\">How the Pentagon assesses Ukraine\u2019s progress<\/a> &#8211; <em>Economist<\/em> &#8211; September 6<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/scheerpost.com\/2023\/09\/08\/us-intelligence-official-media-misleading-americans-about-ukraines-battlefield-success\/\">US Intelligence Official: Media Misleading Americans About Ukraine\u2019s Battlefield Success<\/a> &#8211; Hersh via <em>Scheerpost<\/em> &#8211; September 7<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/asiatimes.com\/2023\/09\/nato-learning-hard-lessons-about-its-future-in-ukraine\/\">NATO learning hard lessons about its future in Ukraine<\/a> &#8211; <em>Asia Times<\/em> &#8211; September 7<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2023\/09\/how-ukraines-heroic-stand-against-russia-could-collapse-into-failure\/\">How Ukraine\u2019s Heroic Stand Against Russia Could Collapse Into Failure<\/a>&#8211; <em>1945<\/em> &#8211; September 7<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/warontherocks.com\/2023\/09\/ukrainian-progress-a-breach-or-a-breakthrough-of-russian-lines\/\">Ukrainian Progress: A Breach or a Breakthrough of Russian Lines?<\/a> &#8211; <em>War on the Rocks<\/em> &#8211; September 8<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2023\/09\/08\/russia-ukraine-defense-counteroffensive\/\">How Russia learned from mistakes to slow Ukraine\u2019s counteroffensive<\/a> &#8211; <em>Washington Post<\/em> &#8211; September 8<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Simplicius has taken several of the above pieces apart and finds that they finally admit that the issue is lost:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/simplicius76.substack.com\/p\/dire-new-western-reports-call-to\">Dire New Western Reports Call to Ditch NATO Tactics<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Plus a roundup of other grist from the Western propaganda mill<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nothing of the above is new to <em>Moon of Alabama<\/em> readers. I may have helped to spare you the grief by not clinging to a the narrative but to the reality of the battlefield:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moonofalabama.org\/2023\/09\/ukraine-sitrep-western-military-commentators-finally-accept-the-obvious.html#more\">Cont. reading: <em>Ukraine SitRep: Western Military Commentators Finally Accept The Obvious<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has taken long enough and hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian dead. But finally some commentators in the Western MSM are beginning to acknowledge what\u2019s really happening in Ukraine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273142,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273141\/revisions\/273142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}