Ukrainians are setting up their own “motorcycle units” (companies, in this case). I posted about similar reports concerning a different brigade not that long ago.
So this is becoming a thing, certainly not due to the failures that Russians reportedly experience in their meat motocavalry attacks. I also immediately remembered a brief discussion we had about Vitaly and his comments on this very subject. His comments from earlier today:
Funny how that works. This is the post where the discussion of his previous comments began:
The Russian-Ukrainian War Thread. And to be fair, what the poster he is replying to said (imagine the outcry if we had seen US marines throwing themselves at [Russian] trenches and barbed wire while being torn apart by artillery) had actually happened in this war; not word for word, of course, but he would be surprised how close he got with his description (think the Chosen Company, the reports from or about which I cited here a several times).
In other news, Rubio (in the Congress hearing) stated today:
There is no military solution to this crisis. It will have to end in a negotiated settlement and the fundamental challenge we are having in Ukraine is this: Russia wants what they do not currently have and are not entitled to and Ukraine wants what they cannot regain militarily. And that’s been the crux of the challenge.
I don’t believe there was anything more common sense that came out from this administration. To expand on his thought, what happens if a year from now we are still talking about this exact same thing and both sides propose the exact same or similar enough “conditions”? Though I personally doubt it would be the same because there will likely be more land captured by Russia, Ukraine in a weaker spot (or worse), without the American support, but Russia may be facing challenges of their own, such as economy, alleged depletion of the Soviet stock, etc.
One can also say that words matter and “what they currently do not have” means that eventually they will/might and “cannot regain militarily” means that there will be no de-jure recognition now of the territories Ukraine had lost and the possibility of Ukraine getting them back is open or to be determined (this is basically what Zelensky said a few months ago; in fact should be word for word or very close, but I am not currently interested in looking for that quote).
Anyway, Rubio also mentioned that imposing more sanctions on Russia would be counterproductive at this time because they would stop talking. Trump had since confirmed this thought:
So far, this whole thing is playing out exactly as expected.
Next thing I wanted to mention is concerned with this idea of mine:
So next year, they will (presumably) be able to respond to a crisis in the Balkans or some third-world countries. This, in turn, suggests that there is also a very obvious incentive for Europe to stall the actual “peace talks” between Russia and Ukraine at this point, letting Ukraine get hammered while appeasing to Zelensky’s delusion and probably knowing full well that very significant concessions will have to be made in order to stop this war.
Of course, the guy is as pro-Ukraine as they come and surely had no intention of putting it the way I did, but the concept is very obvious here.
More things I wanted to include into this post, but gotta go.
Edit: Just realized I didn’t include a reference for the Rubio Cogress hearing. Well, while I took notes, I did not get the time stamps this time, apologies. The entire hearing can be listened to here:
Edit 2: a quick search provided a more sensible option for the reference:
Note that their quote is not precise, but mine is.
