There’s more tankie nonsense about how slow Ukraine’s progress is, this time at the BBC.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66383377
The report describes Ukraine’s actions to date as mostly defensive. The push down to Kharkiv, the breaking of the Kerch bridge and the slaughter of multiple senior Russian officers are presumably covered by the use of the word “mostly.”
“One look at a large-scale map of eastern and southern Ukraine shows that not much has changed in the two months since the counter-offensive began” announces the piece. There is, of course, not a single military voice quoted in the article who might know how counter-offensives go in practice or how the classical “slowly then fast” approach unfolds.
“Progress is being made, but it is slower than Ukraine and its Western allies had hoped” we are told. No supporting statements are provided for this claim. Whose hopes? Of course, it does not say.
“If Ukraine cannot show any decisive gains on the battlefield by then, it is far from certain that US and Nato support will continue at their current high levels,” it continues. Not a single politician is quoted to explain where this claim comes from. Joe Biden, Rishi Sunak, or Victor Orban?
Perhaps a better gloss of the BBC piece would be “Ukraine counter-offensive insufficiently showy for jaded, ignorant journalists.” I am tempted, though, to regard it as a deliberate attempt at psy-ops, attempting to undermine morale. Incompetence or malice? I don’t know.
Fortunately, I have the Daily Kos to tell me about the war.