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| The West is draining Ukraine according to the Afghan scenario |
| 2023-08-29 |
| 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 |
| #21 ^^^ ding ding ding! |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2023-08-29 13:41 |
| #20 #19 Instead, a huge portion of that grain goes into producing fuel additives for vehicles, thereby FTFY. |
| Posted by: Nero 2023-08-29 10:23 |
| #19 Back to my #14, the US has about 390,000,000 acres of arable land, so it should be the top grain exporter in the world. Instead, a huge portion of that grain goes into producing fuel additives for vehicles, thereby saving the snail darter or something. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2023-08-29 10:16 |
| #18 I wonder if somebody keeps the accurate stats... We can't even count the COVID dead. Stolen grains. Stolen farm equipment. Stolen coal...stolen Uranium? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-08-29 10:13 |
| #17 ^Let me guess, you chose your nym because you admine emperor Nero's intellectual acievements? |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-08-29 10:10 |
| #16 I see we have another Putin parrot. Get your pay up front... |
| Posted by: Nero 2023-08-29 10:05 |
| #15 Re #13 - Mr. Heinlein was correct. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2023-08-29 09:26 |
| #14 Re #9 - Russia has about 300,500,000 arable acres vs. Ukraine's 81,300,000, so I would expect them to produce somewhat more. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2023-08-29 09:25 |
| #13 “You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.” — Robert A. Heinlein |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-08-29 09:24 |
| #12 #8 Look who's the author. For your information. Before the war, there were 4 million Ukrainians living in Russia (and, unlike the Nisei, they're not in concentration camps now). Now, there are 5. Big deal. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-08-29 09:18 |
| #11 Tracking where Russia is taking Ukraine's stolen grain How Russian Ships Are Laundering Grain Stolen From Occupied Ukraine |
| Posted by: Enver Slager8035 2023-08-29 09:18 |
| #10 Stolen grains. Stolen farm equipment. Stolen coal. Stolen iron ore. Stolen steel. Stolen factories. Stolen vehicles. Stolen merchandise. Stolen TVs. Stolen appliances. Stolen toilets. Stolen children.,The list items not stolen by Russians is much shorter. |
| Posted by: Enver Slager8035 2023-08-29 09:11 |
| #9 #5 Obviously it's uncoinceivable that primitive Russkies (unlike civilized, westernized, freedom-loving Ukrainians) have a record harvest. TheWorld’s Top Wheat Exporters In 2021 |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-08-29 09:10 |
| #8 And I'm sure, just like the forcible removal of people and children from Ukraine, it was all about keeping the removed grain 'safe'. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2023-08-29 09:05 |
| #7 #4 So, nothing but Ukrainian claims - like the numerous defeats they claim to have've inflicted on Russia (I wonder if somebody keeps the accurate stats on Ukra claims - would hate future historians tearing each other beards arguing whether Ukrainian claims sums to externinating the Russian millitary 2 or 3 times). |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-08-29 09:04 |
| #6 And the recent bombings of Odesa, Chornomorsk and Mykolaiv ports you might even remember. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2023-08-29 08:25 |
| #5 Record 2022 Harvest: https://www.barrons.com/news/putin-expects-record-150-million-tonne-grain-harvest-in-2022-01664276107 |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2023-08-29 08:23 |
| #4 Stolen grain news sources (there are more, but these are just a few I found quickly) https://www.bbc.com/news/61790625 https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/russia-smuggling-ukraine-grain-putin-war/ |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2023-08-29 08:23 |
| #3 ^Source? |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-08-29 07:28 |
| #2 If my short term memory still works, I do remember that Russia moved the huge grain stockpiles from the captured areas into Russia itself, then announced a spectacular increase in their own domestic grain production during 2022. Amazing how that works. Now the Russians are trying to cripple any grain storage and shipping facilities left in Ukraine. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2023-08-29 07:18 |
| #1 IMO, provoking a war with Russia after that happened in Afghanistan is a comment on Ukrainian intellegence. There are, however, important differences. Afghanistan, though brieflyconquered on several occassions was never somebody's colony. Ukraine's been a colony since 1320. And in all that time Ukrainians with ambition & gumption been joining their masters - becoming Lithuanian, then Polish, and finally Russians for the last 300+ years (particulary easy because you don't have to switch religion or language - Ukrainian, as a distinct language [rather than South Russian dialect] was invented in 19th century). After breakdown of Soviet Union, Ukraine statred bahaving as a typical post-colonial African country - selling the assets build by the departed colonialists at cent for a dollar. Once they sold everything (for example: the grain in the grain deal you hear so much about, belongs to western companies). They've started looking for a new master - hopping to become like the Baltics. Fat chance. |
| Posted by: Grom the Kindly 2023-08-29 02:40 |