<em> “Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists; not unity between Marxists and opponents and distorters of Marxism.” </em>
<strong> ― Vladimir Lenin </strong>
Israel will not abide by anything they do not like, and they do not like the idea of an independent Palestine. More realistically, if things somehow do go wrong between SA and Isr., like if dementia Joe fucks around and finds out, SA will begin to side with Palestine more to “pressure” Israel into conceding stuff to them (SA).
Even as a Chinese dude with a general understanding of both Chinese international politics and the SMO, I have no idea what he’s up to. Like, I know he knows what he’s doing, but I certainly do not. Ostensibly, this is to promote a peace deal, but China does benefit in some ways from protracted war and from Russian total victory. There are a lot of conspiracy theories.
The Russian army would be grinding away at Artemovsk anyway, the Ukrainians have been digging in there since 2014. To destroy the enemy manpower and gain access for the rest of the Donbass, a large battle for Artemovsk is very logical.
And Western aid is decreasing because they do not have much left to send, even Western MSM admits it, so it’s probably worse. Ukrainian MSM admits that only around 16,000 Russian soldiers are dead, compared to 100,000 Ukrainian militant deaths (as per Israeli media) You can bet that many of those deaths occured while the AFU impaled itself charging into Russian artillery, who were already retreating, in their little “Kharkov offensive”.
As for Kiev, depending on who you ask, the Russians either began to have supply issues and just retreated, or it was a feint in the first place. Also note that the offensive force was severely outnumbered by the Ukrainian defenders; artillery grinds are a way for RuMOD to leverage Russia’s own superiorities (artillery) against the Banderites, who locally have more manpower. The consensus is that Russia sent around 200,000 soldiers to invade Ukraine; at most, 100,000 at any given time would be in Ukraine, fighting. The other half would work supplies, be resting and awaiting rotation back in, or be held in reserve. By comparison the AFU numbered hundreds of thousands and then drafted many more, I recall before the “Kherson offensive” Ukrainian generals bragged that there were more than 1 million men defending Ukraine or something of the like.
In the long run, I don’t believe that the withdrawals from Kherson or Kharkov severely hampered Russia’s ability to win the war. In both, Ukraine suffered heavy casualties while Russia did not, Russia did lose territory but especially with Kherson it would have been hard to defend anyway, and the front lines have been shortened and Russia has started a favorable battle in Artemovsk that has resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers at the least. In terms of offensive potential, Russia is increasingly catching up with Ukraine, and once it’s even, Zelenskyy has no hope.
War crimes like this only lead to reprisal and escalations, hence them being war CRIMES. The last thing we need is Russian, or militia POW’s executed in reprisal.
Executing Nazi Ukrainian POWs literally is the reprisal, the countermeasure. It is already the response.
I get that randomly shooting people is not a wonderful thing to do, but the world is safer with these people dead rather than in captivity. Russia was forced to trade back some Azovstal POWs to get back their own. We would rather trade average, normal soldiers for average, normal soldiers than high-profile Nazi shitheads in more of a “ransom payment”, “please don’t torture them to death” fashion.
A day in the life of an Ukrainian soldier be like
Get conscripted off the streets of Odessa, given 30 minutes of training with an AK47
WeekDay 1 begins
sprays ak47 wildly into the air, wasting the 17 bullets the entire platoon had left
Bomb hits anyway, killing the lieutenant who was cowering inside with the corpse of the 7-year-old Russian speaking Donbass girl he had murdered and was assaulting
Keep advancing
Artillery shell comes out of nowhere and rips your best friend’s legs off
“MEDIC! MEDIC!”
You get run over and crushed to death by your own tanks as they try to run away
The tanks get blown up by Kornet ATGMs anyway
As you die with the glow of the red sun, your last thoughts are of your 2 year old daughter you were wrested away from by the fascist government and you wish her peace in life. A tear trickles down your cheek, and your soul awaits the hereafter.
Later that evening, after ragequitting a game of Call of Duty and masturbating for 7 hours to a h-ntai video and spamming slurs at Muslim users, a socially-awkward yet simultaneously insufferably entitled Western “Ukrainian-American” warmongering 14-year-old NAFO member LARPing as an Azov soldier brags on Twitter about how he had personally killed 134354657 billion “orcs” with a knife that day
I actually kind of feel bad for the average dudes who just get press-ganged off the streets against their will
A day in the life of an Ukrainian soldier be like
Get conscripted off the streets of Odessa, given 30 minutes of training with an AK47
WeekDay 1 begins
“ROCKET! IT’S A ROCKET!!!”
sprays ak47 wildly into the air, wasting the 17 bullets the entire platoon had left
Bomb hits anyway, killing the lieutenant who was hiding inside
Keep advancing
Artillery shell comes out of nowhere and rips your best friend’s legs off
“MEDIC! MEDIC!”
You get run over and crushed to death by your own tanks as they try to run away
The tanks get blown up by Kornet ATGMs anyway
As you die with the glow of the red sun, your last thoughts are of your 2 year old daughter you were wrested away from by the fascist government and you wish her peace in life. A tear trickles down your cheek, and your soul awaits the hereafter.
Later that evening, after ragequitting a game of Call of Duty and masturbating for 7 hours to a r*pe h-ntai video, some Western “Ukrainian-American” warmongering 14-year-old NAFO member LARPing as an Azov soldier brags on Twitter about how he had personally killed 134354657 billion “orcs” with a knife
Screwing around in Georgia would be a historic mistake for the NATO. Supplies from the EU will never reach them (not that they have much left anyway) and Turkey and Isn’treal do not hate Russia enough to truly intervene, Georgian military is a joke. The Georgian military is so lame and unmodernized that their “foreign legion” mercenaries could probably beat the shit out of them, and the “foreign legion” is having a pretty tough time in Ukraine already. NATO’s best bet would be to have Georgia as a hostile threat to Russia, but not a real belligerent.
Inshallah April 2023 will be in the history books