This is the punch line that I was allowed to deliver last night on air at the conclusion of a twenty-minute panel discussion of the destruction of the Kakhovka dam on “The Spotlight,” Press TV (Iran).

http://www.urmedium.net/c/presstv/124434

My logic in saying this is that the current rate of loss of men and materiel in the ongoing Ukrainian “counter-offensive” is unsustainable and is bleeding their armed forces white.

Two days ago Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported to the nation on the results of the first three days of that counter-offensive: 3,615 Ukrainian soldiers were dead and large quantities of tanks, including the newly arrived German Leopards, aircraft, helicopters, armored personnel carriers were destroyed. The Russians lost a total of 72 dead and 130 wounded. That juxtaposition of losses tells us that for the Russian side this was like shooting herrings in a barrel.

Yesterday, Russian armed forces spokesman General Konashenkov…