Former CIA Director David Petraeus: U.S.-trained Ukrainian counter offensive is scheduled in May

Former CIA Director David Petraeus says the U.S.-trained Ukrainian counter offensive is scheduled to begin in May, with the goal of severing Russia's land route to Crimea, while also demonstrating to Putin that the Ukrainians are willing to "out-suffer" the Russians:

"It's what's happening at training centers the U.S. runs in Germany, Grafenwöhr, Hohenfels, UK, Poland, Ukraine itself, where entire new brigades are being established...

Over time will be equipped with Western tanks or with the residual Soviet bloc systems, Western infantry fighting vehicles, Western wheeled armored vehicles, really, quite an extraordinary array of systems, and this late May, early June, there is going to be a heck of an offensive from the Ukrainians, very likely in the South. It probably has to be roughly the Melitopol area, and they will try to sever the ground line of communications that Russia has established along the southeast coast of Ukraine linking into Crimea...

The Ukrainians will have tanks with infantry in infantry fighting vehicles keeping the enemy's infantry and their anti-tank guided missiles off those tanks. They will have engineers and EOD to produce obstacles and defuse explosives and mines. They will have air defense to keep the Russian air off them.

They'll have electronic warfare to jam the Russians' networks. They'll have artillery and mortars to suppress the enemy forces. They all have good command and control. They'll have logistics pushed right up behind them with additional arms, ammunition, arms, fuel, water, food, medical support, and they'll have reserve forces...

The question, then, is can Putin, over time, be convinced that he will not be able to out-suffer the Ukrainians, the Europeans, and the Americans, which is what he currently thinks. He thinks that, again, Russians, just like they did to Napoleon's army and the Nazis, that they're going to prevail over time because they have more fortitude."

April 18, 2023

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