I don’t trust these movements for being a retreat. Listening to the former commander of the US Special Operations Command in Europe, retired US Army Major General Mike Repass, retired general, and former Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army Jack Keane, who is part of The Institute for the Study of War, the public, NATO and Ukraine shouldn’t fall for the inevitable Russian ruse, and I agree, as well with their assessments. Besides, NATO, themselves warned,
The horrors of Russia's occupation are becoming clear as Ukrainian forces retake the greater Kyiv area.
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To quote Repass,
Vladimir Putin's five-week long invasion of Ukraine has peaked, with Russian forces no longer possessing enough combat power to continue to advance, according to one close observer of the military situation.
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if you remove any disseminated PSYOPS, a term I wished to have avoided, and quote Repass's remark,
then from an online spectator's perspective, our view could possibly be blurred and muddied by the conduct of information wars.
Keane's position is that it is now the time for NATO to join the fight, which I agree with, but that NATO is afraid of upsetting the Putin regime.