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Author’s note:
Due to both health and work issues, blogging has become near-impossible over recent months. Notwithstanding, the author has managed to keep abreast of happenings in both Eastern Europe and the world as a whole and is still aware of the ongoing situation. Hopefully this post will be the first of many over coming weeks and months!
Preamble.
The current conflict in the Ukraine is being covered ad nauseam by the media in both the East and the West, yet current events and the consequences that will arise are being completely ignored not only by the Western powers that caused this conflict, but also by the regime in Kiev that has today become wholly reliant on handouts to continue its efforts against Russia. This article will examine the events here and now as well as how they will shape the future for both the Ukraine and those states that have chosen to support Washington’s war in Europe.
Countless Casualties.
Over more than nineteen months, in spite of there being a de facto blackout in the West of the real truths concerning Russia’s Special Military Operation, other media are posting not only the successes that Russia has enjoyed, but also the immense casualties being suffered by Ukrainian troops as they risk everything in a war that many do not wish to fight. Every day we read that XYZ troops were lost in one engagement or another, these figures at best being in the low hundreds and at worst in the thousands. It was supposed by many that Kiev would fight Washington’s war to the last Ukrainian, yet few if any thought that Kiev would catelessly throw away so many of its own lives in an effort to win somebody else’s war.
Entrenched Mentality.
As we know, even from the get-go, there were worrying similarities between the trenches of Northern Europe a century ago and the battles fought by Kiev’s men today, yet since then, the situation has, from a Ukrainian standpoint, gone from bad to immeasurably worse; thousands of lives are being lost in Kiev’s hopeless attempts to realize military dreams that anyone with any military acumen could see were doomed to be nightmares from the outset.
Meat Grinder.
Even after the needless slaughter in the failed defense of Artemovsk, tens, if not hundreds of thousands of new Ukrainian casualties have been caused by the remorseless pressure placed on frontline troops by their masters in Kiev in its efforts to break through Russian lines and push towards the Crimean Peninsula. Even with the help of Western weapons, intelligence and the alleged wisdom imparted by NATO trainers onto their Ukrainian students, an increasingly inoffensive counteroffensive seen over recent months has seen Zelenskiy and his entourage paying an exorbitant price in blood for negligible territorial gains. With that loss of blood, a hard-pressed Kiev is increasingly using press-gang methods in order to maintain enough troops to continue its increasingly desperate hopes alive.
Snatch Strategy.
As the number casualties have mounted for the Ukrainian military, so has the need for more frontline cannon fodder. Recent months have seen numerous videos across cyberspace showing the drastic measures being employed to get unwilling males into uniform and to the frontlines. With Kiev lowering the requirements, ever younger as well as older men are literally being snatched off the streets in order to fulfill recruitment quotas. Even women working in certain professions are now being ordered to register for specific roles, ever fewer people escaping the clutches of a government that is clutching at straws in its endeavors to keep the war going.
Missing Masses.
As much as the public is being unwillingly recruited, those who are registered as MIA are beginning to cause headaches for their government. Pressure is now increasing from the families of the innumerable soldiers who are now missing yet not recognized as such by the Ukrainian authorities. After not seeing or hearing from their loved ones for months, an upsurge of indignation is now welling up against a Kiev which is denying true figures whilst attempting to avoid paying those families who have lost someone dear.
Runaways and Refugees.
In spite of Zelenskiy and his heavies attempting to abduct so many people, millions more have already left the country. Russia had already received a great number of disaffected Ukrainians before hostilities began, yet it was after the Special Military Operation began that many more of their countrymen decided to flee westwards. After either legitimately crossing into the West or escaping by other means, millions have been granted refugee status in Western nations, but with some of their hosts now beginning to tire of them, their government and its failing fortunes in the war, it is not inconceivable that some nations may start returning at least the males of military age to their homeland should Kiev request it.
Carte Blanche.
Many of those who left the Ukraine after the beginning of the conflict were able to do so after being considered medically unfit for service, but with both rumors and corruption being rife in the Ukraine, it now appears that many of these exemptions were issued in exchange for large cash payments. With that, Kiev is now examining how many of these “white cards” were wrongly issued and by whom. Quite how the Ukrainian government hopes to return those of dubious discharge remains to be seen.
Death Sentence?
Regarding those who Kiev would like to return in order to fill the ranks, there may be a manner in which unwilling Ukrainian citizens may at least for the duration of hostilities remain residents in EU states. On numerous occasions in the past, attempts by national courts to deport criminals to their homelands were scotched through Brussels declaring that their lives would be put in danger should this happen. With the attrition in the ranks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces being as high as it is, it is not beyond the realms of possibility that should a government wish to return certain migrants, the European courts may prevent this from happening.
Paucity of Postwar Personnel.
As was witnessed in the aftermath of the First World War, the UK and others faced problems rebuilding their economies after 1918 due to critical shortages in the labor market due to the attrition suffered over the previous four years. With the Ukraine having lost the manpower that it has through both mortality and migration, once the conflict is over, any attempt to rebuild what will remain of the Ukraine will face serious manpower issues. Many have gone forever, yet with the country being an inevitable wreck, unless Western states force erstwhile refugees to return, most will see the grass to be greener outside of their former homeland, and choose to remain abroad if they are able do so.
Summary.
The same stupidity that caused millions to die in the trenches of WW1 has been repeated by the Ukrainian government over the last year and a half, its ignorance to the realities both on and off the battlefield costing the country and its people dear. As events move forward, Kiev’s stubborn standpoint will only see this situation deteriorate.
A growing lack of personnel as well as waning support from the general public is beginning to make Zelenskiy’s job ever harder on the domestic front as this conflict grinds on; once the war is over however, a wave of anger from within as well as a reluctance on the part of Ukrainian migrants to resettle their former homeland means that whatever remains of the Ukraine will face immeasurable challenges in a post-war future.
A plethora of excuses on the part of Zelenskiy attempt to justify the continuation of this bloody war, yet as we have seen, millions of Ukrainians, in the hope of saving themselves have already given up hope on a lost Western cause in Eastern Europe.
On a final note, what is a country without its people? The last year and a half has merely seen Zelenskiy allegedly saving the Ukraine by sacrificing the very Ukrainians he claims to defend. A country without its people is nothing and simply cannot be kept alive through the death of its own people…
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