The newest Russian Protection Ministry every day bulletin was issued on Wednesday afternoon, July 9. Since then the Pentagon and the White Home have been as silent because the tomb.
Make that thirty-five American tombs.
“Through the day [July 9],” stated the Protection Ministry briefer in Moscow, “the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out a gaggle strike with high-precision weapons on American HIMARS a number of launch rocket programs ready for strikes on the territory of Crimea, in addition to the venue of an official assembly of the AFU [Armed Forces of the Ukraine] command workers. The goals of the strike have been achieved. 4 US-made HIMARS MLRS launchers had been destroyed, in addition to as much as 35 international specialists who serviced them.”
A number of hours later, the Pentagon briefer, Main Normal Pat Ryder, introduced “an amazing kickoff to NATO summit occasions this week.” Normal Ryder wasn’t referring to the most important variety of US battlefield deaths ever recorded below hostile Russian hearth. He had nothing to say concerning the Ukraine battlefield motion, and the reporters attending did not ask him about it.
On the White Home briefing which adopted the Pentagon, the lead announcement was President Joseph Biden’s phone calls to officers in Texas coping with Hurricane Beryl; his plan to satisfy on Thursday with Vladimir Zelensky; and an assurance that “Russia’s aggression towards Ukraine poses a menace to transatlantic safety. That’s what it does. And it reveals how crucial the NATO Alliance is and the way necessary it’s to proceed to be sure that it’s sturdy, and that’s what the president has been capable of do.” Reporters didn’t ask about US fight deaths within the Ukraine.
The New York Instances additionally blacked out the report of the Russian strike on the HIMARS batteries, focusing as an alternative on the Kiev targets of the day, and on claims by nameless US intelligence and different officers that “Russia is unlikely to make vital territorial good points in Ukraine within the coming months as its poorly skilled forces battle to interrupt by Ukrainian defenses that are actually bolstered with Western munitions.”
“You’d suppose in an election yr,” feedback a NATO veteran with Afghanistan warfare service, “that lifeless American ‘specialists’ could be a difficulty. This tells that they [the Biden Administration] are as dedicated to ‘victory’, or hiding an American defeat, as their [Trump campaign] opponents are. They’re additionally loath to get into the function they performed in getting issues up to now.”
That stated, what interpretation can President Vladimir Putin and the Russian Normal Employees give after the 35 US battlefield deaths have been hid by US officers? Ought to Moscow conclude that it’s now Washington coverage to combat Russia, not simply to the final Ukrainian, however to the final American?
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