This is the Friends of History Debating Society, I'm John Batschler Gaias, and I welcome

Dramanicus, Mark of Leos, to comment on what we can see 2,000 years from here, comfortably

on the banks of the Thames and Londonium, with our cup of wine, heading to the theater

later.

However, there is news from the 21st century that we must confront, because it is surprising.

After all these months of watching the conflict in Ukraine, to learn that the commanding generals

of the United States of America, of the United Kingdom, of the Republic of Ukraine, in a

conference call, addressing why the counteroffensive is take your choice, stalled, broken, not successful

or waiting for more ammunition.

Dramanicus, a very good evening to you, I read from a report within these last days.

Quote, in a video teleconferencing on August 10, General Mark Milley, the chairman of the

Joint Chiefs of Staff, is British counterpart Admiral Sir Tony Radikin, and General Christopher

Cavali, the top U.S. commander in Europe, urged Ukraine's most senior military commander,

General Valerie Zalousni, to focus on one main front, and according to two officials

briefed on the call, General Zalousni agreed, one main front.

I'm stumped, Dramanicus.

August 10, I believe these are the lessons that you have at West Point, or at any of the

war colleges, teaching the military how to conduct a large-scale operation.

It appears from these remarks that the Ukrainian decision was to distribute their nine brigades,

or however they had, many they had ready for the counteroffensive, evenly across a front

that's extended from Karkov all the way to Crimea.

And the reports that we've been stumped by for months, for weeks, about the slow progress

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