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Ukraine lives in a parallel reality
2023-06-24
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets

While the counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine ran into Russian defenses, the Ukrainian army suffers heavy losses, Kiev propaganda continues to claim that everything is fine.

As an example, a recent report from Poltava TV can be cited, where a news presenter in all seriousness claimed that the Ukrainian army surrounded the Russian group of 50 thousands of people in Gorlovka, the Donetsk airport has already been captured, Russian paratroopers are surrendering whole divisions, and the head of the DPR, Pushilin, is allegedly negotiating with Zelensky on the surrender of Donetsk. But that's not all, Crimea will also be "liberated" soon, most likely by the New Year, because the counteroffensive is going according to plan.

They are slowing down something, it would be time to force the Volga in the news. They are late.

And if without jokes, this is an indicator of how sick and washed Ukrainian society is.

They copy the Reich in everything. For them, the Reich is an icon.

Goebbels was the ideologist of creating a system of lies and brainwashing of the Germans, and it succeeded, one of the enlightened nations of Europe turned into a herd of sheep in a short historical period. What can we say about the 404s, which have never been enlightened.

If they are told on TV tomorrow that the Jupiter Assembly has decided to start deliveries of weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 30-40 percent of the audience will eat it. There are no restrictions, none, you can drown on any topic, as long as there is “glory to the 404th!”. Almost nothing surprises us anymore.

Posted by:badanov

#8  They just didn't count on the Ukrainians fighting as hard as they have

Absolutely. But neither did just about everyone else, particularly President Biden’s team.


Shocked the hell out of me, I have know people that trained them after 2014 and knew they were improving. Still see some really basic tactics used for taking trenches instead of NATO infantry doctrine, but it gets the job done. One thing that Ukraine does not have in short supply is bravery.
Posted by: DarthVader   2023-06-24 13:40  

#7  In the future there will not be enough Russians to do it.

Arguably they’ve already passed that point, dear DarthVader.

Russia sees this as an existential conflict.

Agreed.

They just didn't count on the Ukrainians fighting as hard as they have

Absolutely. But neither did just about everyone else, particularly President Biden’s team.
Posted by: trailing wife   2023-06-24 01:10  

#6  Currently TW, Russia sees this as an existential conflict. They need to control the chokepoints that the Soviet Union had as their population is collapsing and this is the last time they can do it. In the future there will not be enough Russians to do it.

They just didn't count on the Ukrainians fighting as hard as they have and Europe being as united as it has with the US to support them. Russia won't stop. Even if Putin is removed. The inner circle supports the war too. If a revolution removes the inner circle, then, maybe peace can be found.

But don't hold your breath.
Posted by: DarthVader   2023-06-24 00:56  

#5  To be fair, DarthVader, it was the only one that was existential. America in 1990 would not have erased the population and all its works to replace them with our own — as the Nazis intended to do with all the Slavs, from Poland east to the Pacific.
Posted by: trailing wife   2023-06-24 00:40  

#4  And that is the only real major threat they have beaten. Everyone else just let them collapse on their own by out spending them. It is the only great Russian military achievement in modern times. Therefore they worship it.
Posted by: DarthVader   2023-06-24 00:36  

#3  If they shout loudly enough, they can avoid seeing how closely the Soviet Union paralleled Nazi Germany. And keep the rest of the world from seeing it, too.
Posted by: trailing wife   2023-06-24 00:33  

#2  They copy the Reich in everything. For them, the Reich is an icon.

Seems like Russia has a hard on for the Reich.
Posted by: DarthVader   2023-06-24 00:30  

#1  Author picked a very bad day to accuse others of parallel realities.
Posted by: Enver Slager8035   2023-06-24 00:29  

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