That's Gotta Hurt...

 ... to feel oneself illiterate and a military amateur.

A retired US general slammed Russia's performance in Ukraine, even as President Vladimir Putin's forces seized hold of a key town in the east of the country. Ben Hodges, who previously commanded United States Army Europe, gave a brutal assessment of Russia's achievements so far, telling the Kyiv Independent: "their navy sucks, their air force sucks, and they've lost half a million soldiers." It's unclear where Hodges got this casualty figure from. Current estimates of Russians killed or wounded since 2022 vary between 315,000, per a senior US defense official, and just over 400,000, according to Ukraine's Ministry of Defence.

Well, according to Pentagon Russia lost the war. Remember now retired Mark Milley? We are dealing with the acute case of professional envy or, as some call it, a small penis envy, from people who wrote field manuals which killed more VSU cannon fodder than Russians planned. 

Ukraine’s forces say NATO trained them for wrong fight. There’s been plenty of talk as to why the counteroffensive has been so painstakingly slow — and the most intriguing idea is coming from soldiers on the Ukrainian front lines. Did NATO screw up when training Ukraine’s counteroffensive units? Did it train them for the wrong battlefield?

It couldn't have been otherwise. The SMO exposed the shaky facade of the NATO military "science" and a dismal effectiveness of its hardware in a real fight. This fits extremely well with Macgregor's recent statements about Russia, Great Patriotic War "myths" et al. I know, it is excruciating for many to see not just the whole American military mythology being blown up, but see the country circling the drain. Me too, I cannot recognize the United States and what it turned into, and this is just the start.