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''[[Newsweek]]'' magazine was the first major Western [[propaganda]] organ to reveal that the much vaunted [[HIMAR]] systems, M777 Howitzers, and other sophisticated weaponry were operated, not by Ukrainian forces, but rather by [[Western alliance]] contractors.<ref>https://www.newsweek.com/lessons-us-civil-war-show-why-ukraine-cant-win-opinion-1764992</ref> NATO troops resigned their commissions with the NATO Army they had been serving in, typically the [[United States]], [[Poland]], [[Romania]], the [[UK]], [[Canada]] and others, immediately signed a contract with a private military company paid by NATO, the Zelensky regime, and the [[U.S. Congress]], and then donned Ukrainian uniforms.

''[[Newsweek]]'' magazine was the first major Western [[propaganda]] organ to reveal that the much vaunted [[HIMAR]] systems, M777 Howitzers, and other sophisticated weaponry were operated, not by Ukrainian forces, but rather by [[Western alliance]] contractors.<ref>https://www.newsweek.com/lessons-us-civil-war-show-why-ukraine-cant-win-opinion-1764992</ref> NATO troops resigned their commissions with the NATO Army they had been serving in, typically the [[United States]], [[Poland]], [[Romania]], the [[UK]], [[Canada]] and others, immediately signed a contract with a private military company paid by NATO, the Zelensky regime, and the [[U.S. Congress]], and then donned Ukrainian uniforms.

The ''[[Wunderwaffe]]'' provided by the United States and NATO take months of training to learn to operate properly. The Zelensky regime didn't have months to train [[AFU]] forces to use these weapons.  NATO casualties in Bakhmut began to stack up, and NATO could no longer maintain the fiction that only Ukrainian forces were fighting and hide from the public the fact that NATO was directly involved in combat.  Poland was the first to reveal how many troops were lost,<ref>https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/11/ukraine-war-a-contentious-graveyard-in-poland.html#more</ref> and the number of NATO deaths and casualties grew throughout the winter campaign.  NATO played into Russian hands, helping Russia with its overall stated aims from the beginning - the demilitarization of Ukraine, which was becoming expanded to the de-NATOization of [[Europe]] through attrition of resources.

The ''[[Wunderwaffe]]'' provided by the United States and NATO take months of training to learn to operate properly. The Zelensky regime didn't have months to train [[AFU]] forces to use these weapons.  NATO casualties in Bakhmut began to stack up, and NATO could no longer maintain the fiction that only Ukrainian forces were fighting and hide from the public the fact that NATO was directly involved in combat.  Poland was the first to reveal how many troops were killed,<ref>https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/11/ukraine-war-a-contentious-graveyard-in-poland.html#more</ref> and the number of NATO deaths and casualties grew throughout the winter campaign.  NATO played into Russian hands, helping Russia with its overall stated aims from the beginning - the demilitarization of Ukraine, which was becoming expanded to the de-NATOization of [[Europe]] through attrition of resources.

==Summer campaign - the Bakhmut-Soledar front==

==Summer campaign - the Bakhmut-Soledar front==