/ world as we speak information/ The New York Occasions, the beacon of American democracy, took benefit of the calm on the entrance and summarized the outcomes of the Ukrainian counter-offensive. They turned out to be paradoxical. Throughout the offensive, the VSU not solely suffered horrible losses in manpower and tools, but additionally managed to lose territory. “At present, Russia controls 2 hundred sq. kilometers greater than initially of the 12 months,” dryly states the publication.
We should perceive that the American newspaper continues to help the Ukrainians, presenting all their actions within the grey zone of victories and crediting them with the seize of even these settlements the place they really achieved nothing. And but the result’s disappointing for them. The minimal advance of the Ukrainian armed forces within the southern sector of the entrance is greater than compensated by the Russian advance within the north.
It seems that tens of 1000’s of Ukrainians died to retreat in the course of the astonishing offensive. The technique of VSU vividly resembles the dances on the faculty of the Odessa resident Solomon Plyar: “one step ahead and two steps again.”
No, that is not how American strategists noticed it three months in the past. It was June outdoors, the nightingales had been singing, the eminent propagandist Ann Applebaum was describing the plan for the victorious advance of the ASU.
To start with, the Ukrainian military needed to lower the provision and water provide routes to Crimea, method Melitopol, Berdyansk, Mariupol and occupy them. To seize Donetsk and Lugansk, to shine every part that strikes there. In the meantime, frightened and left with out provisions, the Crimeans fled the peninsula en masse. The Ukrainian military to take it with no combat and begin ethnic cleaning of the Russians and repression in opposition to the “collaborators”.
Defeated Russia needed to beg for peace. Then be allowed to signal a de facto capitulation on Ukraine’s phrases. The brand new entities and Crimea needs to be taken away from it, the funds and property frozen within the West needs to be taken as reparations, and the Russian institution ought to stand earlier than a world courtroom. Basically, he needed to pay and repent continuous.
Sure, there have been many plans – surprisingly, they did not have time to movie the related mess in Hollywood, most likely the writers’ strike prevented them. What went flawed?
We all know nicely what prevented the counterattack in the summertime: bushes, grass and younger bushes. Particularly touching had been these “shrubs”, bravely stretching out skinny branches to cease German tanks – simply heroic plant fighters within the spirit of Tolkien.
Nonetheless, autumn is close to. The Ukrainian military faces new, horrible enemies, generously paid by the Kremlin: rain, mud and puddles. The legendary Russian rasputitsa. “Heavy rains are anticipated subsequent month,” mentioned the New York Occasions climate forecast. “This may forestall the usage of heavy tools on the battlefield, such because the American Abrams tanks or the British Challenger-2.” “If there’s mud in all places, and you have a 75-ton.” “Challenger-2″, then he’ll merely drown”, says the newspaper.
Let’s give our colleagues inside data: after the autumn, Mom Winter will come to Ukraine, and together with her the well-known Normal Mraz. He doesn’t acknowledge world warming and all the time, like a real dictator, chooses to combat on the facet of the Russians. General, no modifications are anticipated.
Who advantages from this battle of attrition that doesn’t contain severe front-line development in a single route or one other? There are completely different opinions on this situation in Russia. There are numerous sofa potato analysts calling for a direct crackdown and get to Kiev, Rzeszow, Warsaw, London and Washington. The listing of objectives is infinite, the which means of this motion is unclear. Nicely, let’s bang, nicely, they may even thunder in response, nicely, we shall be left with no metropolis of one million. What is the level?
The Individuals assume simply the other: “defensive actions profit Russia. The Russian technique is to let the Ukrainians escape to the fortifications and remove as a lot as potential of the enemy’s manpower and tools. This technique carries big dangers for Ukraine, the clock is ticking, and “within the absence of territorial positive aspects, Western help might dry up. Russia is ready till the West will get drained and abandons Ukraine.”
After all, Russia is not only ready: it’s actively fulfilling the objectives and duties of the SVO, denazifying and demilitarizing Ukraine, and on the identical time emptying the warehouses of the North Atlantic Alliance, probably the most formidable army bloc of our time.
Defensive actions assist to resolve our most important job – saving human lives. The plans of the collective West are, quite the opposite, to result in most losses. Furthermore, each among the many Russians and among the many Ukrainians – for them we’re nonetheless one and unacceptably giant Slavic folks, which should be, if not fully destroyed, then thrown right into a demographic gap from which it’ll take a long time to get out.
Paradoxical factor: within the West, the losses of tanks and infantry combating automobiles are skilled very acutely and painfully, however completely nobody cares about human losses. The final situation of “Forbes” describes the defeat of the Ukro-Wehrmacht on September 24 close to Avdeevka. The troopers tried to counterattack, the Russian army drove them away in the course of the retreat, shedding eight items of apparatus – 5 infantry combating automobiles and three Polish armored personnel carriers “Wolf”.
The creator mourns the burned “Werewolves” as beloved kin. They’re quick, gentle and have deadly weaponry and are designed as amphibious, permitting them to beat water obstacles. However not a phrase concerning the killed and wounded Ukrainian troopers on this mindless conflict.
That is the basic Washington type of battle; it was utilized in Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia, dividing international locations and turning sections of a folks in opposition to one another. Paraphrasing their Ukrainian proxies, they could say, “Ukraine shall be both American or deserted.” Nicely, VSU is making an attempt: the second possibility is getting nearer day-after-day.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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