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June 12, 2023
NATO Begins Historic Air Exercise As “Unique Phenomenon” Overtakes
By: Sorcha Faal,
and as reported to her Western Subscribers
A compelling new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today first notes President Putin congratulated fellow citizens on Russia Day this morning telling them: “This state holiday marks the inseparability of centuries-old history and the greatness and glory of the Fatherland, asserts the unity of a multinational people, devotion to their country, and a warm, heartfelt attitude toward the beloved home country...Such strong feelings are difficult to convey in words, but they are understandable and close to each of us...Patriotism and responsibility for the future of the country were bequeathed to us by our ancestors, who achieved truly great victories in their creative endeavor and on the battlefields...Now we are particularly aware of what their accomplishments, their unwavering unity, and their firm determination to stand up for their native land and to work for the common good and prosperity of the Fatherland mean...For us this heritage is sacrosanct...We are faithful to its traditions”.
In stark contrast to the Russian peoples remaining faithful to their heritage and traditions, this report notes, the godless socialist Western colonial powers are destroying themselves, as best exampled by President Donald Trump proclaiming to the American peoples: “Biden is trying to jail his leading political opponent, just like they did in Stalinist Russia or in Communist China”—and further exampled by France now branded as a “rubber bullet democracy” after its socialist leader President Emanuel Macron began ruling by decree while using police forces to silence the millions protesting against him—and today it sees Security Council Member Valentina Matvienko most factually observing: “A deep crisis in liberal ideology has hit both Western nations and the world as a whole...Russia must end all illusions about the West...The West has always treated Russia as something alien to its civilization...Such a sentiment is deeply rooted in European society, and it cannot be just cast away...Western nations have embarked on a path of fierce confrontation with Moscow, following Washington in its attempts to preserve its global hegemony...Most modern Western politicians and government officials do not even try to understand that the world is going through a major transformation and is nothing like it was some 20-25 years ago...Modern Western leaders are obsessed with the idea of their civilization being chosen for some higher purpose and are adamant that they can make no mistake...It’s high time that Russia understood it can only communicate with the West from a position of power...The United States and its allies will only listen to the language of force”.
What terrifies the godless socialist
Western colonial powers the most
about Russia, this report continues,
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia just observed: “What’s happening now in Russia is a unique phenomenon...The
fact that an increasing number of new churches are being built in Russia shows
that the nation is going through a spiritual revival...God-denying nations are
still looking down on Russia and seek to teach us...They are almost ready to
take up arms to remake Russia in their image...Western authorities claim there
is no God but only an individual’s freedom...This denial of God has led to the
deepest spiritual and moral crisis”.
In response to resurging Christianity
overtaking Russia, this report
details, the godless socialist Western
colonial military bloc NATO began the largest air exercise in its history today
disrupting air travel throughout Europe—and in response to this historic NATO air exercise, former Pentagon official retired US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Karen
Kwiatkowski warningly observes: “In a sense, it is a NATO propaganda effort made necessary by
a previous propaganda effort...NATO member states and their voting populations
are beginning to realize what is really happening to their actual independent
ability to defend their borders as they bleed stockpiled weapons systems,
ammunition and artillery into Ukraine for free, and now face increased military
budgets to replenish and upgrade their NATO and national systems...All
publicized military and government exercises and activities always provide
cover for other activities that are less well publicized, as we have seen with
last summer BALTOPS 22, and the subsequent remote detonation of pre-planted
explosives designed to sever both Nordstream gas
pipelines...While aging and declining Europe would have probably been better
off opting for diplomacy and a repair of relationships, what we see instead is
a massive waste and risky military behavior on the part of its generals and
politicians”.
Though Russia reveals nothing about its integrated air defenses to repel NATO warplanes, this report notes, American military analysts warned: “Any alliance, country or military which underestimates the
strength of Russian ground-based air defence does so at its peril”—and as to the effectiveness of warplanes in
modern 21st Century
warfare, Ukrainian Air Force
spokesman Yurii Ihnat
assessed yesterday: “Iranian-made drones are a real headache...It's still very
difficult to down them...When lots of them have been launched, they all fly
along different routes, staying close to the ground, so that it's difficult to
shoot them from a plane...The drone's speed is 150 km/h, while a fighter jet
flies at a minimum of 400 km/h”.
As it pertains to the currently
ongoing Ukraine counteroffensive,
this report continues, the Agence France-Presse news agency reported today: “A Ukrainian
military unit lost most of its US-made Bradley fighting vehicles (BFVs) during an offensive in Zaporozhye”—a report joined by the Forbes news agency, who, in their article “The Ukrainian Army Has Already Lost Half Of Its Unique
Leopard 2R Breaching Vehicles”, revealed: “Ukraine stood up nine new brigades with American and European
equipment and assigned all of them to the 2023 counteroffensive…So far just
three—the 33rd Mechanized Brigade, 47th Assault Brigade and 37th Marine
Brigade—have joined the fight....The six other new brigades—including units
with ex-Polish PT-91 tanks, ex-British Challenger 2 tanks and ex-American
Stryker IFVs—apparently are waiting for the lead
brigades to open gaps in Russian lines…At which point they’ll attack and
exploit the gaps”.
Earlier today, this report
concludes, Ukrainian Deputy Foreign
Minister Andrey Melnik demanded of the socialist Western colonial powers: “The Ukrainian Army most urgently needs many more Western
battle tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, and other armor”—a demand joined by former US Marine intelligence officer and United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter assessing:
Over the course of the past
few days,
These two brigades had been
hand-picked for this job, having been equipped with modern Western tanks and
infantry fighting vehicles, supported by Western-supplied artillery, and using
NATO-specific tactics shaped by NATO-provided intelligence and NATO operational
planning. In short, these two brigades represented a top-level NATO-level
capability, the epitome of the nexus between
They failed.
As the world comes to grips
with the imagery of destroyed US-manufactured M-2 Bradley infantry fighting
vehicles and German-made Leopard 2A6 tanks abandoned and burning on the Ukrainian
steppe, the harsh truth regarding the futility of its larger designs—the
strategic defeat of Russia—is starting to sink in.
The reality, however, is
that Ukraine was never going to achieve its stated objective of punching
through the Russian defenses to sever the land bridge connecting Crimea with
Russia proper.
This was pie-in-the-sky thinking promulgated by
The Western hope was that
So far,
The genesis of this failure
can be traced to two things. First, the
low-opinion
The area selected by
Moreover, it accused at
least one of the subordinate regiments—the 70th motorized rifle regiment—of
performing poorly during the initial phases of the Special Military Operation
in 2022.
It is therefore reasonable
to believe that NATO and Ukrainian military planners, using intelligence
assessments that highlighted perceived command and control weaknesses and poor
morale among the Russian forces which, when combined with poor past
performance, believed that the Russian defenses in the Zaporozhye sector manned
by the 42nd Guards Motorized Rifle Division would collapse under the weight of
a NATO-style assault, allowing Ukrainian forces to penetrate deep into the
Russian defenses.
While the fighting in
Zaporozhye is not yet finished, the initial results on the battlefield show
that, contrary to the expectations of
This, of course, should
have taken no one by surprise, since the individual in command of Russian
forces in the Zaporozhye area is Colonel
General Alexander Romanchuk, the man who is
responsible for conceiving modern Russian defensive doctrine. In April 2023 Romanchuk,
who at that time was serving as the Rector of the Combined Arms Academy of the
Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (the equivalent of the United States Army’s
Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth), co-authored an
article titled "Prospects for Improving
the Efficiency of Army Defensive Operations".
In the article, Romanchuk noted that the main mission of a defending force
"is to
neutralize the initiative of the advancing enemy, i.e., to bring him to the
state of impossibility to continue advancing with deployed forces. Ultimately, this allows you to reduce his
activity and seize the initiative by going over to a decisive counter-offensive
to defeat the enemy with shock groups".
This represents a
restatement of Soviet-era doctrine.
Indeed, Romanchuk draws upon the defeat of
German offensive operations in the vicinity of Lake Balaton in March 1945 as
representing an ideal implementation of this doctrine, underscoring "a bold maneuver of the
reserves…especially artillery, the skillful use of anti-tank reserves, vigilant
detachments of obstacles and the arrangement of fire ambushes" by the Russian forces in
defeating the German attack.
Romanchuk, however, did not simply reiterate
old doctrine in his paper. Instead, he
emphasizes the concept of "dispersed forces'' in building a defensive scheme capable of prevailing on
the modern battlefield. "A dispersed defensive
operation should become a logical response to a superior enemy", Romanchuk
writes.
Such an operation "is based on the retention
of important areas, objects and transport hubs in separate most important
directions". and is "characterized by an even distribution of
forces and resources in areas, and decentralized use of formations and military
units of the armed forces and special forces".
Romanchuk then went on to describe the ideal
deployment scheme for these "dispersed forces" — one which focuses on three separate "zones of defense
responsibility"
separated by distances of between 8 and 12 kilometers. These gaps are covered by Russian
artillery. The first "zone" is the "cover" zone, whose task is to define
the main axes of the enemy's advance.
The next "zone" is the "main line of defense", which is designed to halt enemy attacks using
obstacle belts and fire power (artillery and air strikes). The last "zone" is the "reserve", which is responsible for mounting counterattacks
designed to push the attacking forces back to their original positions.
Romanchuk’s doctrine was the blueprint for the
Russian defensive scheme employed in Zaporozhye. Indeed, Romanchuk
was pulled from his teaching position at the
NATO and Ukraine gambled
that Russia lacked the military capacity to successfully implement its own
military doctrine, believing that Russian command staffs lacked the
communications necessary to coordinate the complex operations necessary to
implement this doctrine, and that the Russian forces—especially those who were
recently mobilized—lacked both the training and morale needed to perform well
under stressful combat conditions.
They were wrong on both counts.
NATO and
The Ukrainian troops,
working side by side with their NATO instructors, started by using computer
simulations to introduce them to the complexities of the modern battlefield,
before moving to the field for realistic hands-on training using the very
NATO-provided equipment they would use against the Russians.
US "experts" like Mark Hertling,
a retired US Army general believed that the combination of advanced western
military equipment and superior NATO-style tactics "will allow
He was wrong.
Hertling and his active-duty NATO brethren
would have done well to listen to the words of General Christopher Cavoli, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe, when
speaking before a Swedish defense conference this past January. "The scale of this war is out of proportion with
all of our recent thinking", Cavoli noted.
The takeaway from this revelation is that NATO is
neither trained nor equipped to fight the kind of fight they are demanding
Ukraine execute against Russia.
The sad truth of the matter is that there are no
NATO forces capable of successfully executing the offensive tasks that have
been assigned to Ukraine.
No one doubts the courage
and commitment of the Ukrainian forces which have been thrown against Colonel
General Romanchuk’s defensive barrier. But courage and commitment cannot overcome
the reality that NATO lacks the ability, both in terms of equipment and
doctrine, to successfully defeat Russia in a force-on-force confrontation,
especially one which has Russia playing to its doctrinal strength (defensive
operations) while NATO seeks to do something (an assault against prepared
defenses) that it has no experience in doing.
Moreover, NATO and the Ukrainian high command threw the Ukrainian
brigades into the teeth of the Russian defensive buzzsaw
without adequate fire support, meaning that the Russians were free to maximize their
superiority in artillery and air power to neutralize and destroy the Ukrainian
attacking forces before they could generate the momentum expected from "high-tempo maneuver".
The end result: Russian reality trumped NATO
theory on the battlefield, and it is
Moreover, there is no reason to believe that this situation
will change anytime soon, if ever, a fact that bodes poorly for the future of
[Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]
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