Western media wrote that in the first 72-96 hours of the attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, it was necessary to be on the coast of the Sea of Azov, having broken through the front, to begin the assault on Melitopol.
The first couple days of the attack were supposed to define the offensive. Western analysts focused on a lightning-fast offensive in order to achieve success, and now the operation is moving into positional battles, in fact, resembling the situation in Bakhmut where Ukraine got ground down through attrition.
It was all terribly written. They’ve all since “revised” expectations. I’ve been reading a lot of simplicius, and it all makes sense under the context of manufacturing consent to send more garbage to Ukraine.
The reason media changes their expectations so quickly is because they aren’t actually reporting anything. They are simply trying to manipulate reactionary voters to keep voting for the liberals. Of course opportunistic right wingers are taking advantage of this and dunking on liberal media for rightfully being delusional and fake news. So they have no choice but to “revise” their previous expectations to be more in line with reality, or be totally eviscerated by right wingers.
They’ve all since “revised” expectations.
Yesterday i seen a triumphant article on lemmy “Ukraine advances 1400m in Bakhmut” and map where the line is not even in Bakhmut. Sure sounded like 1915 but with copium clouds instead of chlorine.
