As the conflict in Ukraine grinds on myths that were spread in the West regarding a noble struggle by a heroic Ukraine against an evil Russia are being exploded by the day. A tragedy is being exposed.
The Ukrainian army was sent to eastern Ukraine to assert the authority of the illegal Ukrainian government that took over after the Maidan coup in 2014. It was an army that had suffered underinvestment of all kinds in the years preceding this time. Subsequently its cack-handed approach to the civilian population in eastern Ukraine was unsurprising. Violence soon broke out as resistance to this armed force was inevitable. Diplomacy ought to have been the way forward but after the ultraviolence seen in the insurrection that brought the new regime into being (backed by the USA, UK and EU) diplomacy had been all but abandoned in Ukraine.
The Ukrainian army sent to discipline the rebellious majority in eastern Ukraine, after stirring up the resentment and opposition that led inevitably to violence were however, not strongly motivated enough for the regime and so the most extreme of the ultranationalists who had played a decisive part in the Maidan coup were used for this purpose. Given mortars and shells they set up outside Donbass villages, towns and cities and fired at random into them. They were unconcerned where these shells fell or who they killed or maimed as a consequence. The most radical of those who arrived hated ALL those who spoke Russian rather than Ukrainian they called ‘Moskals’. Those they considered to be Russian no matter that they lived in Ukraine. They spoke Russian and that was enough for these extremists. Whether the elderly, women, children, it didn’t matter to them. they were all Moskals, Russians. The structures most commonly hit were the Soviet era residential blocks but also hit were hospitals, school buildings and government offices.
The radicals off the Maidan were eventually incorporated officially into the Ukrainian national guard and it remains the case that these are the ideologically-motivated forces that continue to fight in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict today. Their numbers however are much reduced by this point due to the Russian military tactic of attrition. The numbers too of the NATO-trained troops have been very much reduced also. And the Ukrainian army that first arrived in the Donbass to discipline the civilian population there is all but gone, wiped out by the overwhelming advantage the Russian army has had over the last two years.
Now the Ukrainian regime is scrambling to take whoever it can get into its now much reduced army. For some time now it has been incorporating increasingly older men and at times women into its forces. It began many months ago to violently take men off the street, bundling them into cars, giving them a week or two of training (if that) before sending them off to be cannon-fodder on the front lines. The average age of a Ukrainian trooper now stands at 43 years of age. Even a disabled, Downs Syndrome man has been seen in uniform at the front. Those being sent there include the increasingly young and always the partially trained. They then find themselves in a meat-grinder where they never even see a Russia but are only pummelled day and night by Russian artillery fire.
Yet even while the above goes on relentlessly day by day with a toll of some 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers being lost to the battlefield and Russia taking ever more territory the western political elites refuse to contemplate peace negotiations. Their goal was always to weaken Russia and initiate regime change there and this goal remains in place. The hapless and largely incapable Ukrainian troops, the majority of whom by now never wished to be there, are mere tools for the West and expendable tools at that. The cynicism involved is off the scale. Only the ideologically motivated neo-Nazi forces such as the AZOV and Right Sector monsters fight on enthusiastically. There can be no question and increasingly so, that all other Ukrainians who have been sent into the eastern meatgrinder simply wish to go home to their families.
There is no shining white innocent Ukraine fighting the evil black-hearted Russians. That myth is long exploded as more and more look deeper into the West-generated origins of this tragic war that Russia never wanted and tried (for almost a decade) to prevent. The Ukrainians who have been led to the slaughter by the West, apart from the most extreme nationalists are hapless and helpless victims of the Kiev regime led by Zelensky and his western masters. They are ultimately the most intolerably and cynically abused victims in this entire tragic scenario, along with the entire nation of Ukraine. mere pawns in the western ambition to undermine Russia. They deserve our sympathy as they die in ever-increasing numbers. The old, amateur, sick and untrained.
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