29 June 2022: Here are the key takeaways from this evening's Ukraine - General David H. Petraeus,...

Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen thanks for the update, Jack. Here is a comment from the report.
A QUOTE - "Enough is enough... stop this international terrorism invasiveness NOW. ONE NARCISSTIC MAN is DESTROYING LIVES, WELFARE AND AN INDEPENDENT COUNTRY... FOR WHAT REASON. THE UKRAINE DID NOT START THIS... ONE MANIACAL MAN WANTS ANY RARE EARTH MATERIALS INDER HIS EGOTISTICAL AUTHORITY. STOP (T)HIS MADNESS. INNOCENT WOMEN,,CHILDREN AND THE ELDERLY ARE DIEING AT HIS DISCRETIONARY HILTLERISMS. Question: IS PUTIN NAZI-isms putting the WORLD in jeopardy? Food shortages in the Persian countries?"

I ask myself if the uncertainty I feel about the world is similar to what my grandfather was thinking in 1938.

It's coming, simply because it is never enough.

My problem with the assessments from The Institute for War is that most of the information is coming from Ukrainian sources that have been caught fabricating/lying about their successes and Russian Defeats to be considered reliable. What does appear to be true is that the Russians now control Lysychansk and a moving to close the salient as the Ukraine forces retreat. That move will give them the rest of the Donetsk. The Russians have developed tactics that make the Strongpoint Defenses in urban areas suicidal, they just surround the place and pound it flat with artillery.
My final comment is that we are getting more reports from Western sources that the condition of the Ukrainian forces at the front are half trained conscripts that are poorly equipped and badly lead.