archived https://archive.ph/CKroW
Some key points from it:
The war in Ukraine is at a critical moment. The fall of Avdiivka would mean Ukrainian forces fall back to the reservoirs of Karlivka and the heights at Ocheretyne. Karlivka supplies water to the remaining Ukrainian-held territory in the Donbas, with any battle there severely disrupting its flow. Seizing the heights at Ocheretyne, two miles away, would allow the Russians to begin razing Myrnohrad, a city of 50,000. Unless the West provides brigades like the 47th with ammunition, they will be unable to stop Putin’s troops. The Russians could run on to Dnipro, with a population of one million, and sweep north towards Kyiv, cutting off Ukraine’s army in the Donbas.
Holding Avdiivka is also key to maintaining morale. Its defence is a tribute to the thousands of soldiers who have died there since Russia’s hybrid invasion of 2014. And the Ukrainian positions here are a dagger at the throat of the occupied city of Donetsk, which is central to any future Ukrainian counteroffensive to recover the Donbas region.
“It’s a shitty situation,” Sausage said. The shell shortage forces soldiers like Sergeant Taras “Fizruk”, a 31-year-old mortar gunner, also from the 2nd Battalion, to make impossible life and death decisions. “We had ten times more ammunition over summer, and better quality,” he said. “American rounds come in batches of almost identical weights, which makes it easier to correct fire, with very few duds. Now we have shells from all over the world with different qualities and we only get 15 for three days. Last week we got a batch full of duds.”
The Russians seem able to absorb an endless amount of casualties, spurred on by fear of their own commanders
It is 2023 and the libs are still using Enemy at the Gates as theory.
Also I count at least 3 nazi patches in that group pic,
One thing we’ve learned over the past few years is that Hollywood really is an effective propaganda machine. A whole generation of western libs now based their entire world view on shit like Harry Potter and Enemy at the Gates. It’s kind of incredible think about.
Stepping away from it just a little bit it feels really bizarre just how much the average USA citizen’s ideology is tied to popular media. Fictional books and movies are constantly used as analogies and evidence to explain real events in the real world. I used to do it all the time too.
If you push people on it they’ll say that they know that Harry Potter or The Avengers is not real, of course. But in all other ways they behave as if the biggest movies and fictional books of the 20th century stand on equal footing with (if not above) real actual history in the arena of understanding and shaping the present and future.
Idealism is a hell of a thing.
It’s an interesting phenomenon for sure. People grow up in an environment where they’re constantly bombarded with this sort of soft propaganda, and it necessarily ends up shaping how they think about the world. And understanding that this is fiction at an intellectual level doesn’t appear to make much of a difference. This becomes a subconscious bias that people simply aren’t aware of.
I know it’s ironic that I’m about to compare reality to a piece of media, but reading this article honestly gave me the same feeling as reading the Nazi newspaper clippings in Wolfenstein
when life imitates art
Is it just me or is this a particularly deranged and unhinged article ? Like more so than normal or am I just sensitive today
It’s pretty unhing, and I imagine they’re only going to get more so from here on out as it becomes clear that Ukraine is losing.
Pretty standard to what polish media were publishing constantly half year ago, minus the hyperoptimism.
hybrid invasion of 2014
Hybrid as in “Ukraine military invaded their own regions demanding equality and autonomy”?
“We had ten times more ammunition over summer, and better quality,”
And still lost hard, so what does he really says
Also this guy does crime according to polish law, i wooonder if he will gets punished if he gets back:
That’s the real elephant in the room here. Ukrainian army was at its peak when the war started. They had a motivated army that had all this amazing NATO training, thousands of tanks, artillery, and an air force. That army failed to defeat a small Russian expeditionary force for around 100k troops. Now they have a ragtag army that’s low on supplies and full of conscripted people who don’t want to be there. Meanwhile, Russia beefed up its force to over 400k troops, and now has its war machine firing on all cylinders. How exactly is Ukraine expected to defeat Russia at this point.
And I’m sure the guy will get a medal for his heroic war tourism if he survives.
