{"id":15336,"date":"2020-03-27T19:32:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T19:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=15336"},"modified":"2020-03-27T19:32:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T19:32:30","slug":"situation-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/situation-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"A few points about the situation in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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by George V. Pinchuk <\/a><\/span><\/span>volunteer of InformNapalm<\/p>\n

1. It is war. A very real and very \u201chot\u201d war, and, so far, the only war going on in Europe. Media calls it a \u201cconflict\u201d or something similar, usually avoiding the mere word \u201cwar.\u201d But that\u2019s cowardice and hypocrisy. Please, friends, do call it WAR when you talk about it anywhere and with anybody \u2013 at home, at work, at school, on a plane etc.<\/p>\n

2. Russia started this war in spring 2014, and Russia is carrying it out. It is ridiculous and disingenuous to call it a \u201cconflict between the Ukrainian government and the Russia-backed rebels\u201d (or \u201cseparatists\u201d). On the side that fights against the Ukrainian soldiers and volunteer fighters, all commanding officers are professional, cadre officers of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Among privates, the \u201ccannon meat,\u201d some are from the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, some \u2013 from local lowlife, and many are mercenaries from remote areas of Russia and from other countries (Brazil, Latvia, Italy \u2013 to name a few). The local lowlife fights because they are crazy, supplied with Russian weapons, and on the Russian payroll, and the mercenaries fight for money and future career in terrorist armies. But the entire thing is directed from headquarters in Moscow, and the only one person in the world who could command this war to stop is Vladimir Putin. (But he, of course, will never give this command.)<\/p>\n

3. The numbers of casualties per day or week are relatively low. However, it is not because it\u2019s a \u201cfrozen conflict.\u201d Far from it: the Russian side opens heavy fire 10, 15, 20 or more times a day, almost never missing a day. They use artillery, large-caliber mortars, grenade launchers, guided anti-tank rockets, heavy machine guns, armored vehicles, and drones. They fire at the Ukrainian military positions, civilians\u2019 residences, and even ambulance vehicles. The ONLY reason the death toll is not in hundreds or thousands per day is that the Ukrainian military is, currently, a very advanced modern fighting force equipped with radiolocation and other systems that can detect the exact position of the enemy artillery and quickly suppress their fire. So, the volleys of the Russian fire cease after some 5-10-20 minutes (albeit the aggressor always resumes fire after an hour or so). In addition, the Ukrainian military and civilians who still live near the line of fire have well-designed underground trenches, bunkers, residential spaces, and even schools.<\/p>\n

4. This war will, most likely, continue for many more years. It\u2019s not a \u201cland grab,\u201d as some naive American friends of mine tried to explain it to me in 2014. Russia does not need the territories that she annexed or occupied. The goal that Russia pursues is to destroy Ukraine, make Ukraine disappear as an independent state. Russia wants Ukraine to bleed, bleed long and hard, bleed to death \u2013 not just literally but also economically, technologically, and ideologically. And it\u2019s not just Putin. A leader that will replace him when he dies will be, in all likelihood, the same, or worse, as far as Ukraine is concerned. The Mordor, the Evil Empire in any of its reincarnations \u2013 the savage Finno-Ugric tribes under Andrei Bogolubsky who burned down Kyiv in 1168, the Mongol Horde of the 1240s-1400s, the Moscow Principality of the 1500s-1700s, the Russian Empire, the Union of Soviet Social Republics, the Russian Federation \u2013 is incompatible with Ukraine. It\u2019s either \u2013 or. Either we (Ukraine) will perish, or they (the Mordor) will be thoroughly defeated, like Germany and Japan in 1945, and dismembered.<\/p>\n

5. Of course, destroying Ukraine will not quench the Mordor\u2019s desire for further expansion and domination. At the moment, the US Armed Forces and the NATO still exist, and are a formidable shield from Russia. However, we should keep in mind that currently, the Supreme Leader of Russia (Putin, or whoever will be there after him) OWNS his country with all of its vast natural resources (oil, gas, gold, diamonds, timber, coal, aluminum and other ores etc.). There is no limit to his spending, and he does not need any Congress to approve his decisions to finance Russia\u2019s wars. So he buys, and buys, and buys \u2013 politicians, political parties, governments, the entire countries. In the USA, he has, obviously, bought many leading politicians who dance to his tune. This enormous, gigantic, unimaginable ability of Russia to BUY can, in a few years, result in a total disintegration of NATO and in the situation when Russia and the USA (and perhaps China) will just sit down together and divide the world. In that Brave New World, there will be no place for the Western civilization values like freedom, dignity, individual\u2019s rights, pursuit of happiness.<\/p>\n

6. It may be not too late to prevent this. But it will require honest admission that Russia is an evil state, the number one enemy of the US and the malignant tumor on the face of our planet. (China, IMHO, is not; it is authoritarian, but it can trade, while Russia can only destroy, using the selling of its natural resources as the means for this destruction.) It will need creation of a powerful military anti-Russia coalition, similar to the coalition created against Germany and Japan in 1941. And that, in turn, will need abandoning the \u201cpeaceniks\u2019\u201d myth about \u201cco-existence\u201d and \u201ccooperation\u201d with Mordor, and debunking the anti-historical falsehood that the \u201cfree world\u201d \u201cdefeated\u201d the USSR, winning the \u201ccold war.\u201d All this is a difficult task, needing a consolidation of the American society, a turn away from partisan bitching along the outdated dualist \u201cliberal vs. conservative\u201d pseudo-opposites. There is no more time for nonsense like \u201cwe-need-to-make-greedy-corporations-pay-their-faye-shaye\u201d vs. \u201cItalians-die-of-Corona-because-of-their-socialist-medicine,\u201d or \u201cevery-bad-thing-in-the-world-is-because-of-misogyny\u201d vs. \u201cCorona-is-a-hoax-created-by-Deep-State-to-control-our-lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Pinchuk <\/a><\/span><\/span>volunteer of InformNapalm\r\n\r\n1. It is war. A very real and very \u201chot\u201d war, and, so far, the only war going on in Europe. Media calls it a \u201cconflict\u201d or something similar, usually avoiding the mere word \u201cwar.\u201d But that\u2019s cowardice and hypocrisy. Please, friends, do call it WAR when you talk about it anywhere and with anybody \u2013 at home, at work, at school, on a plane etc.\r\n\r\n2. Russia started this war in spring 2014, and Russia is carrying it out. It is ridiculous and disingenuous to call it a \u201cconflict between the Ukrainian government and the Russia-backed rebels\u201d (or \u201cseparatists\u201d). On the side that fights against the Ukrainian soldiers and volunteer fighters, all commanding officers are professional, cadre officers of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Among privates, the \u201ccannon meat,\u201d some are from the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, some \u2013 from local lowlife, and many are mercenaries from remote areas of Russia and from other countries (Brazil, Latvia, Italy \u2013 to name a few). The local lowlife fights because they are crazy, supplied with Russian weapons, and on the Russian payroll, and the mercenaries fight for money and future career in terrorist armies. But the entire thing is directed from headquarters in Moscow, and the only one person in the world who could command this war to stop is Vladimir Putin. (But he, of course, will never give this command.)\r\n\r\n3. The numbers of casualties per day or week are relatively low. However, it is not because it\u2019s a \u201cfrozen conflict.\u201d Far from it: the Russian side opens heavy fire 10, 15, 20 or more times a day, almost never missing a day. They use artillery, large-caliber mortars, grenade launchers, guided anti-tank rockets, heavy machine guns, armored vehicles, and drones. They fire at the Ukrainian military positions, civilians\u2019 residences, and even ambulance vehicles. The ONLY reason the death toll is not in hundreds or thousands per day is that the Ukrainian military is, currently, a very advanced modern fighting force equipped with radiolocation and other systems that can detect the exact position of the enemy artillery and quickly suppress their fire. So, the volleys of the Russian fire cease after some 5-10-20 minutes (albeit the aggressor always resumes fire after an hour or so). In addition, the Ukrainian military and civilians who still live near the line of fire have well-designed underground trenches, bunkers, residential spaces, and even schools.\r\n\r\n4. This war will, most likely, continue for many more years. It\u2019s not a \u201cland grab,\u201d as some naive American friends of mine tried to explain it to me in 2014. Russia does not need the territories that she annexed or occupied. The goal that Russia pursues is to destroy Ukraine, make Ukraine disappear as an independent state. Russia wants Ukraine to bleed, bleed long and hard, bleed to death \u2013 not just literally but also economically, technologically, and ideologically. And it\u2019s not just Putin. A leader that will replace him when he dies will be, in all likelihood, the same, or worse, as far as Ukraine is concerned. The Mordor, the Evil Empire in any of its reincarnations \u2013 the savage Finno-Ugric tribes under Andrei Bogolubsky who burned down Kyiv in 1168, the Mongol Horde of the 1240s-1400s, the Moscow Principality of the 1500s-1700s, the Russian Empire, the Union of Soviet Social Republics, the Russian Federation \u2013 is incompatible with Ukraine. It\u2019s either \u2013 or. Either we (Ukraine) will perish, or they (the Mordor) will be thoroughly defeated, like Germany and Japan in 1945, and dismembered.\r\n\r\n5. Of course, destroying Ukraine will not quench the Mordor\u2019s desire for further expansion and domination. At the moment, the US Armed Forces and the NATO still exist, and are a formidable shield from Russia. However, we should keep in mind that currently, the Supreme Leader of Russia (Putin, or whoever will be there after him) OWNS his country with all of its vast natural resources (oil, gas, gold, diamonds, timber, coal, aluminum and other ores etc.). There is no limit to his spending, and he does not need any Congress to approve his decisions to finance Russia\u2019s wars. So he buys, and buys, and buys \u2013 politicians, political parties, governments, the entire countries. In the USA, he has, obviously, bought many leading politicians who dance to his tune. This enormous, gigantic, unimaginable ability of Russia to BUY can, in a few years, result in a total disintegration of NATO and in the situation when Russia and the USA (and perhaps China) will just sit down together and divide the world. In that Brave New World, there will be no place for the Western civilization values like freedom, dignity, individual\u2019s rights, pursuit of happiness.\r\n\r\n6. It may be not too late to prevent this. But it will require honest admission that Russia is an evil state, the number one enemy of the US and the malignant tumor on the face of our planet. (China, IMHO, is not; it is authoritarian, but it can trade, while Russia can only destroy, using the selling of its natural resources as the means for this destruction.) It will need creation of a powerful military anti-Russia coalition, similar to the coalition created against Germany and Japan in 1941. And that, in turn, will need abandoning the \u201cpeaceniks\u2019\u201d myth about \u201cco-existence\u201d and \u201ccooperation\u201d with Mordor, and debunking the anti-historical falsehood that the \u201cfree world\u201d \u201cdefeated\u201d the USSR, winning the \u201ccold war.\u201d All this is a difficult task, needing a consolidation of the American society, a turn away from partisan bitching along the outdated dualist \u201cliberal vs. conservative\u201d pseudo-opposites. There is no more time for nonsense like \u201cwe-need-to-make-greedy-corporations-pay-their-faye-shaye\u201d vs. \u201cItalians-die-of-Corona-because-of-their-socialist-medicine,\u201d or \u201cevery-bad-thing-in-the-world-is-because-of-misogyny\u201d vs. \u201cCorona-is-a-hoax-created-by-Deep-State-to-control-our-lives.\u201d\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/a\/a5\/2014_Russo-ukrainian-conflict_map.svg\" alt=\"Russian-Ukrainian war\" width=\"4126\" height=\"4480\" \/>\r\n\r\nRead in Ukrainian <a href=\"https:\/\/uagolos.com\/6-dniv-6-smertey-6-oblych-ta-imen-iaki-musymo-pam-iataty\/\">Six days. Six deaths. 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