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Using Ukraine as Cannon Fodder
Western leaders started voicing their frustration with the Ukrainian counteroffensive. Ukraine is not using “combined arms” tactics on the battlefield. This means integrating infantry, armored vehicles, and artillery. Basically, their complaint is that Ukraine isn’t going hard enough.
According to the West, Ukraine is playing it too conservative, attempting to clear minefields and other obstacles to minimize human casualties – as if the “Soviet style” tactics were light on throwing bodies at the enemy during WWII.
This Western analysis of the current situation is written with an arrogant sense of superiority, as if saying “listen up, Ukrainians, don’t you understand you’re supposed to be throwing even more bodies at the deeply entrenched Russian army which had months to fortify their multiple belt lines of defense on the other side of thick mine fields and have a staggering amount of artillery and air defense superiority? What don’t you understand?”
They’re saying the quiet part out loud: Ukrainians are disposable in the quest to “weaken Russia.” Thousands, potentially tens of thousands of Ukrainians have died in the counteroffensive alone, which has produced no sizable gains for Kyiv.
For the record, there was a perfectly reasonable solution: Minsk II. But there’s a reason corporate media and Western officials don’t talk about that, either.
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