For the Ukraine, the EU, the USA, lapdogs, and NATO, it was a shattering defeat. No military power from the western industrialized world is able to match what the Russians just did in Bakhmut. The west has been planning this nasty situation since well before 2008, and it (Bakhmut’s defenses) was physically and financially constructed starting in 2008. The amount of money spent on this resentment of Russia and hunger for its riches is astounding. At Bakhmut, Ukraine, they were certain that Russia would be exhausted, stumble, and perish. The Western Coalition has found itself bleeding from severely slashed veins while Russia is watching as the west attempts to stop the persistent bleeding that they have inflicted against their own. It was a premeditated bleeding of Russia at the price of Ukraine, but everything went wrong…
Kinda a karma thing. Yet, more than anything? Russia is on the side side of good and evil just got slapped again and again. The west is pissed off and it is showing…
Anyone who asserts the opposite is a liar and has no relevant experience…
WtR