AP News:

The U.S. on Wednesday announced what officials say could be the final package of military aid to Ukraine unless Congress approves supplemental funding legislation that is stalled on Capitol Hill.

The weapons, worth up to $250 million, include an array of air munitions and other missiles, artillery, anti-armor systems, ammunition, demolition and medical equipment and parts. The aid, provided through the Presidential Drawdown Authority, will be pulled from Pentagon stockpiles.

In a statement, Marine Lt. Col. Garron Garn, a Pentagon spokesman said there is no more funding to replace the weapons taken from department stocks. And the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, which provides long-term funding for future weapons contracts, is also out of money.

The Globalists and the Neoconservatives who have politically captured the United States are going to ensure that our military is disarmed, and then they are going to plunge us into nuclear World War III.

The Neocons are too rigidly ideological to ask themselves “and then what?” They merely believe that we can start nuclear World War III and then everything will work itself out in our favor because we are the best.

The Neocons are the useful idiots of the Globalists. The Globalists want to plunge the US into nuclear World War III so that they can simultaneously manage our military defeat and our transition to subservience to a global layer of government; which they seek to create and to control.

The Biden Administration has donated our arsenal, and they are working overtime to plunge us into a war against our nuclear-armed adversaries. How else is this supposed to play out?

PBS:

The year started with high hopes for Ukrainian troops planning a counteroffensive against Russia. It ended with disappointment on the battlefield, an increasingly somber mood among troops and anxiety about the future of Western aid for Ukraine’s war effort.

Make no mistake about it: there is no stalemate in Ukraine. Russia is patiently and methodically grinding down the US/EU/NATO proxy army. There has never been any reason for “high hopes” regarding Project Ukraine. The Spring Counteroffensive was always a stupid idea and it was never going to work. Half a million people are dead, for the sake of NATO expansion.

Perhaps in the New Year, the Ukrainians will wake up, rid themselves of our sock puppet Zelensky, negotiate with Russia, and stop the bloodbath.

Kiev Post:

David Arahamiya, leader of the President’s “Servant of the People” party and head of the Ukrainian delegation during last year’s talks with Russia, has revealed that Russia proposed ending the war in spring 2022 on the condition that Ukraine abandon its NATO aspirations and adopt a neutral stance.

“They really hoped almost to the last that they would put the squeeze on us to sign such an agreement so that we would take neutrality. It was the biggest thing for them,” Arahamiya said in an interview with Ukrainian journalist Natalia Moseychuk.

“They were ready to end the war if we took – as Finland once did – neutrality and made commitments that we would not join NATO. This was the key point,” he added.

All that Russia wants is Ukrainian neutrality. Ukrainian neutrality served the cause of world peace for decades, until the US/EU/NATO axis of evil fomented the coup which toppled the constitutional, democratically-elected government of Ukraine in 2014. No one should have ever died for the sake of NATO expansionism.

It was never going to work for a plethora of highly obvious reasons. Only a complete idiot would have ever believed that it could have possibly succeeded. The only possible outcome was always going to be the liquidation of tens of thousands of Ukrainian lives, for nothing. Now, the Ngo Dinh brothers ponder what is to come:

Two articles published this week give a stark assessment of Ukraine’s prospects in its war with Russia. One – by the commander in chief of the Ukrainian military – admits the battlefield has reached a stalemate and a long attritional war benefiting Moscow beckons. The other portrays Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as exhausted by the constant effort to cajole and persuade allies to keep the faith.

Here’s hoping that the US/EU/NATO puppet government in Kiev collapses under the weight of its own stupidity before the Russians make it to Lviv.

See also:
–U.S., European Officials Broach Topic Of Peace Negotiations With Ukraine, Sources Say
–There Is No Pressure To Negotiate With Russia, Says Zelenskyy
–EU, US Begin Quiet Talks On Peace With Ukraine As Russia Continues War
–Zelensky Rebuke Of Top General Signals Rift In Ukrainian Leadership

Forbes:

The Ukrainian counteroffensive corps has advanced just a few miles along its most important axes in southern and eastern Ukraine. But that slow rate of advance soon could change: on or right before Wednesday, the Ukrainian air-assault forces’ 82nd Brigade crossed the first of the three lines.

The headlines can be misleading. Russia’s first/main line is actually the defense ring furthest back from the Ukrainians. Everything forward of the main line is bonus defense rings that the Ukrainians have to fight through to even reach the main line. Those rings are constructed to funnel the Ukrainians into traps, allowing the Russians to fall back as needed.

The US/EU/NATO proxy army in Ukraine has a long way to go before it sees the main line.

See also:
–Ukrainian Counteroffensive Pierces Main Russian Defensive Line In Southeast
–Ukraine Latest: Ukraine Said to Have Breached Russian Defensive Line

Defense News:

On Aug. 24, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered an inspirational speech in Kyiv’s St. Sophia Square to mark Ukraine’s Independence Day. His message was familiar to anyone who has heard or read a Zelenskyy speech since he became a wartime president. “We are fighting the enemy,” he told the crowd. “And we know what we are capable of. We are capable of winning! And we will prevail!”

Nearly 5,000 miles away, U.S. President Joe Biden is exhibiting clarity of his own. The White House has stated time and again that the U.S. will support Ukraine “for as long as it takes,” which if defined literally would mean his administration is prepared to arm and finance Ukraine’s war effort against Russia until Kyiv’s total and complete military victory. It’s a pledge Biden reaffirmed during his phone call to Zelenskyy on the same day the Ukrainian president gave his Independence Day speech.

Lofty aspirations, however, are often blunted by cold, hard reality. And the reality is that the Biden administration’s Ukraine strategy is increasingly being tested by political, policy and resource constraints.

We are going to run out of weapon stockpiles to give away and Ukrainians to get killed, but we can continue debasing our currency to infinity by printing cash that is backed up only by the fumes emanating from that old sack of rotten oatmeal named Joe Biden.

Russia is still going to win the war, though.

See also: U.S. To Send $250 Million In Weapons To Ukraine

CBS News:

“Robotyne has been liberated. Our forces are advancing southeast of Robotyne,” Ukraine’s Deputy Defense Minister Ganna Malyar said in televised remarks on Monday.

Robotyne and another small settlement that was retaken in recent days are in Zaporizhzhia — one of four regions Russia unilaterally declared dominion over last year after staging bogus “referendums,” despite not controlling the ground militarily.

The Russian line may be multi-layered, but it is one integrated line, and it has not been breached. The further that the US/EU/NATO proxy army of Ukraine pushes into the Russian security zone, the easier it will be for Russia to boil them in the cauldron.

AP News:

The passenger manifest of the plane that went down in Russia is essentially a who’s who of Wagner mercenaries, including its second-in-command, who baptized the group with his nom de guerre, as well as the logistics chief, a fighter wounded by U.S. airstrikes in Syria and at least one possible bodyguard.

And, of course, Yevgeny Prigozhin himself, Wagner’s leader and mutineer, who many believed was a marked man after his short-lived uprising in June against the Russian military.

In all, the other passengers included six of Prigozhin’s lieutenants, along with the three-member flight crew. For company leaders who were called out by the Kremlin as traitors to travel together on a single flight appeared to be an extraordinary breach of security. The purpose of the trip was unknown.

Oh, I am fairly certain that the purpose of the trip is indeed “known”…

See also: Yevgeny Prigozhin Plane Crash: Embraer Legacy 600 Jet Had Good Safety Record, Say Reports

A few days ago, Russian General Gennady Zhidko reportedly died from an “illness.” He briefly commanded the Russian war effort in Ukraine last year, before getting fired “for failures during military operations.” President Putin conferenced his generals following Zhidko’s demise, perhaps in order to ensure that they would all stay in line for what was to follow…

President Putin replaced Zhidko’s successor, General Sergei Surovikin, after just three months, with General Valery Gerasimov in January. At that time, Surovikin rotated into command of the Russian air forces. However, he vanished from the scene in June, reportedly arrested for his involvement in Wagner’s March of Justice. One target of the march, declared by Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, was of course Gerasimov, who continues to command Russian forces in Ukraine.

Today we learn that Surovikin has been officially relieved of duties, and that Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin is dead:

Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin is dead, a Telegram channel affiliated with his Wagner mercenary group reported on Wednesday.

“The head of the Wagner Group, a Hero of Russia, a true patriot of his Motherland – Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin died as a result of the actions of traitors to Russia,” a post in the Grey Zone channel said.

“But even in Hell, he will be the best! Glory to Russia!”

Prigozhin was listed as a passenger on a private jet which crashed on Wednesday evening north of Moscow with no survivors, the Russian authorities said.

How Wagner will respond to this — and how Wagner’s response will affect Russia’s ongoing operations from Europe and Africa to the Middle East — could possibly be a game-changer for the war in Ukraine.

CNN:

Ukrainian pilots have begun training on F-16 aircraft, Ukraine’s Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said, bringing Kyiv closer to obtaining a long-sought after piece of military hardware it says is essential to counter Russian air superiority.

Trainees will also get English-language training in technical terminology, because “the basic level of English language is not enough,” he said.

Russia will have no problem shooting them out of the sky, and that is simply a fact. These jets are not going to change anything significantly. Russia will simply adjust their tactics until each of the F-16s have been eliminated.

See also: Netherlands, Denmark Commit To Giving F-16 Fighter Jets To Ukraine

The Washington Post:

Ukraine appears to be running out of options in a counteroffensive that officials originally framed as Kyiv’s crucial operation to retake significant territory from occupying Russian forces this year.

More than two months into the fight, the counteroffensive shows signs of stalling. Kyiv’s advances remain isolated to a handful of villages, Russian troops are pushing forward in the north and a plan to train Ukrainian pilots on U.S.-made F-16s is delayed.

The US/EU/NATO puppet government of Ukraine never had any real option to conquer significant territory from Russia. Nevertheless, we will continue sending out multitudes of Ukrainians to go die for the idiotic cause of NATO expansionism, until we run out of Ukrainians to get killed.

See also:
–Ukrainian Commanders Confident About Offensive Despite Problems
–Ukraine’s Sluggish Counter-Offensive Is Souring The Public Mood
–US Grows Doubtful Ukraine Counteroffensive Can Quickly Succeed
–Ukraine Has No Realistic Path To Military Victory Over Russia

NBC News:

Speaking to reporters at Camp David on Friday, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said that President Joe Biden at the G-7 meeting in Hiroshima had promised to back an effort to train Ukrainian pilots on F-16 aircraft and the administration is now ready to follow through and give a green light to Denmark and the Netherlands to transfer the fighter jets to Ukraine once Ukrainian pilots are trained.

“President Biden indicated — both to his colleagues, his allies, and to the world — that he would support an effort to train Ukrainian pilots on F-16s.  

“What we did this week is formalized, through a letter from Secretary [of State Antony] Blinken to his counterparts in Europe, that upon the completion of that training, the United States would be prepared, in consultation with Congress, to approve third-party transfer of F-16 aircraft to Ukraine.”

It was not immediately clear when the first F-16s might enter the conflict but Ukrainian pilots will first have to undertake at least six months’ training on the aircraft, according to officials.

So in a few years (if the US/EU/NATO puppet government of Ukraine still exists), once the Ukrainian F-16 pilots have learned how to speak English, and then learned how to fly F-16s, we will finally be able to send them all out to die for nothing.

This is certainly no “major gain” for Kiev. The grand result of this dumb scheme is that our already-weak security dependencies, Denmark and Netherlands, will now be even weaker.

The Telegraph:

Ukraine’s counter-offensive will likely fail in its key objective to cut Russia’s land bridge to Crimea this year, according to a US intelligence assessment briefed to members of Congress.

The reported assessment, which The Telegraph could not immediately verify, could foreshadow mutual recriminations between members of the pro-Ukraine alliance over the offensive’s slow progress.

It was never going to work. We sent all of those Ukrainians out to die for nothing. The entire plan was entirely stupid and we knew that before it started.

See also: Ukraine War Casualties Near Half A Million, U.S. Officials Say