Frankly speaking, it's disappointing that these NATO training centers haven't already been wiped out. SVR's candid disclosure of their existence this far into the conflict raises a lot of uncomfortable questions that challenge prevailing Alt-Media narratives.
Frankly speaking, it's disappointing that these NATO training centers haven't already been wiped out. SVR's candid disclosure of their existence this far into the conflict raises a lot of uncomfortable questions that challenge prevailing Alt-Media narratives.
Given the short expected lifespan of newly trained Ukrainians, perhaps Russia sees no reason to waste time/resources obliterating the training.
An obvious Russian failing is inadequate PR about NATO personnel that have died in the war. The origin countries soldiers being killed on a regular basis underlines that NATO countries are losing much more than money. Besides losses reflecting badly on the NATO govt. involved, it would get the home audience to oppose serving in their military, opposed to potential conscription and resistant to their inadequate troops invading Ukraine. A steady flow of the NATO troops and officials who have died in Ukraine underlines the hard reality, 180 degrees from Ukraine having a chance to win. Seeing the losses mount over time is likely to make more people against moving significant numbers of NATO troops into harms way, because the citizens would anticipate many more casualties, making it less of a "contrast effect" and less justification for escalation to nukes.
Given that rank and file citizens are not as gung ho to risk WW3 as their NATO-dependent Govt., it is way past the time when Russia should have seized the narrative to a greater extent, to counteract NATO propaganda and news suppression.
Tell us more about the willingness of the (remaining) Ukrainians to be trained in these centers... I bet that the 18 to 25 years old are eager and eaching for it, with many of them haven't even tasted pussy yet...
I don't think these training centers are designed to prepare them for the current conflict, but for post-conflict policing duties at home, deployment to NATO bases inside of Europe to replace US troops who might "Pivot (back) to Asia" pronto per reports about Trump being interested in that part of Zelensky's 'Victory Plan", and possibly for the (seemingly inevitable) Continuation War.
I don't think SVR would make them up out of thin air since their disclosure makes Russia look bad in the sense that the SMO is supposed to be about stopping NATO's expansion to Ukraine yet now it turns out that they set up an unknown number of training centers even in spite of the ongoing hostilities.
I agree they're not likely to be making it up wholly out of thin air. There have been examples of Russian targeting of training activities like the EW training center in Poltava in early September.
But I don't think the West is prepared to put its forces at the kind of risk that an extensive, in-country, combat-arms-unit training effort would entail. And I don't think its existence could be kept from the Western media or from Russian targeting. So I take the SVR report with a big grain of salt.
Frankly speaking, it's disappointing that these NATO training centers haven't already been wiped out. SVR's candid disclosure of their existence this far into the conflict raises a lot of uncomfortable questions that challenge prevailing Alt-Media narratives.
Given the short expected lifespan of newly trained Ukrainians, perhaps Russia sees no reason to waste time/resources obliterating the training.
An obvious Russian failing is inadequate PR about NATO personnel that have died in the war. The origin countries soldiers being killed on a regular basis underlines that NATO countries are losing much more than money. Besides losses reflecting badly on the NATO govt. involved, it would get the home audience to oppose serving in their military, opposed to potential conscription and resistant to their inadequate troops invading Ukraine. A steady flow of the NATO troops and officials who have died in Ukraine underlines the hard reality, 180 degrees from Ukraine having a chance to win. Seeing the losses mount over time is likely to make more people against moving significant numbers of NATO troops into harms way, because the citizens would anticipate many more casualties, making it less of a "contrast effect" and less justification for escalation to nukes.
Given that rank and file citizens are not as gung ho to risk WW3 as their NATO-dependent Govt., it is way past the time when Russia should have seized the narrative to a greater extent, to counteract NATO propaganda and news suppression.
Tell us more about the willingness of the (remaining) Ukrainians to be trained in these centers... I bet that the 18 to 25 years old are eager and eaching for it, with many of them haven't even tasted pussy yet...
I don't think these training centers are designed to prepare them for the current conflict, but for post-conflict policing duties at home, deployment to NATO bases inside of Europe to replace US troops who might "Pivot (back) to Asia" pronto per reports about Trump being interested in that part of Zelensky's 'Victory Plan", and possibly for the (seemingly inevitable) Continuation War.
Yes, but do these "training centers" actually exist at any scale worth getting concerned about?
I don't think SVR would make them up out of thin air since their disclosure makes Russia look bad in the sense that the SMO is supposed to be about stopping NATO's expansion to Ukraine yet now it turns out that they set up an unknown number of training centers even in spite of the ongoing hostilities.
I agree they're not likely to be making it up wholly out of thin air. There have been examples of Russian targeting of training activities like the EW training center in Poltava in early September.
But I don't think the West is prepared to put its forces at the kind of risk that an extensive, in-country, combat-arms-unit training effort would entail. And I don't think its existence could be kept from the Western media or from Russian targeting. So I take the SVR report with a big grain of salt.
The public disclosure is the preamble to knocking them down.