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The West is draining Ukraine according to the Afghan scenario
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.by Victoria Nikiforova Far from idealizing the Russian army, the Reuters agency described the successful advance of the Russian Armed Forces in the north-east of Ukraine almost in the style of Levitan: "A large contingent of Russian armed forces is advancing in the area of Kupyansk and Liman <...>." Almost simultaneously, the New York Times quoted the commander of the Nezalezhnaya ground forces, Alexander Syrsky , in its material, who admitted that "enemy units continue to inflict damage with artillery, mortars and aircraft" and demanded to urgently strengthen the defenses of the northeast. I must say that from the Syrsky side, this is practically a riot, because the Pentagon's cunning plan was to pull all the proxy Cossacks to the southeast and try to break through to the Sea of \u200b\u200bAzov . In the Pentagon, either on purpose or through thoughtlessness, they did not notice that such a maneuver would expose the northeastern sector of the thousand-kilometer front, opening up the widest field of opportunities for the Russian army. This, in fact, happened, and now a graduate of the Moscow Combined Arms Command School, Syrsky, can complain to the American masters as much as he likes and blame them for their strategic mistakes. There, his claims will be met with cold bewilderment. It is striking how much the tone of the American media has changed when reporting on the retreat of Ukrainian troops. A year ago, each such communiqué was accompanied by calls to give shells to the Armed Forces of Ukraine and to attack the Russians together. Today there is no such rhetoric at all. The successes of the Russian troops and the defeat of the Ukrainian ones are dryly stated, the evacuation of the Kupyansky region is noted and there are no “defend Ukraine!”, “We unite around Ukraine!”. The States are merging the Independent in their classic style. More recently, by historical standards, they closed the Afghan case in the same way. Many coincidences of these stories are striking in their literalness. For example, no one remembers anymore, but the US withdrawal from Afghanistan also took place against the backdrop of a "counterattack." Yes, yes, in October 2020, American proxies went on a "counteroffensive" against the Taliban in the south of the country in the province of Helmand. They even achieved some success, taking as many as five roadblocks. However, the Americans still continued to withdraw their troops, and already in May 2021, the Taliban went on the offensive, ending with the capture of Kabul and the infamous landing gear flights. In the course of these offensives, retreats and counter-offensives, it quickly became clear that training to NATO standards did not help the Afghan troops in the least. That corruption was going through the roof and while some were dying, others were stealing like crazy. That the American command made all the mistakes that it could, as if on purpose not letting the army drilled by them win and achieving maximum losses on both sides of the front: what was the cost of at least their idea to force the Afghan military to defend only cities, while completely unblocking all the country's highways and freeing them for the Taliban. In general, everyone blamed each other. In fact, there was only one mistake. Many Afghans believed that Washington was harnessing for them seriously and forever, that the American occupiers would bring them civilization and prosperity. But the invaders did not need it. They needed the Afghans to kill the Afghans - as many as possible and for as long as possible. In parallel, of course, all sorts of business topics were spinning, one sale of drugs brought in how much money. However, the essence was different: to ruin the country and force the population to mutual extermination. Numerous "mistakes" by American commanders are explained precisely by this - in fact, for them there was no difference between the troops they created and the Taliban. Well, when it was necessary to switch to a new - Ukrainian - theater of operations, the Americans quickly hit the road across the ocean. The servicemen of the Afghan army fled in all directions, most of them settled in Iran and today live there in poverty, cursing their stupidity. The flag was lowered at half-mast at the Capitol the other day in mourning for the thirteen American servicemen who died during an enchanting drape from Kabul. Representatives of the American regime uttered the appropriate words on such an occasion. But no one in America has remembered—and will never remember—the hundreds of thousands of Afghan fighters and civilians who died in twenty years of bloody occupation. Washington planned to turn Ukraine into a second Afghanistan for Russia. Achieve our defeat and surrender of territories, cause indignation in our society, and then - the collapse of the country according to the scenario of the collapse of the USSR . But today everything speaks for the fact that the Independent will become the second Afghanistan for the United States. This is evidenced by the successes of our troops, and domestic scandals around corruption schemes in Ukraine, and the changing rhetoric of the Western media before our eyes. The experience of countless US wars shows that they chase their proxies like guinea pigs through the same maze. So far, not a single rat has found a way out of it. It is sincerely a pity that this time millions of ordinary Ukrainians allowed themselves to be driven into a trap. Posted by: badanov 2023-08-29 |
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