In 2014 it’s possible this might have been the case. Some “analysts” (from the phrase “does everyone have a drink?” 2) supposed at the sight of RF tanks the deceived people of Ukraine would run to meet them with flowers. Does it turn out we didn’t suppose this would be the case? As soon as the effect of surprise and the shock of the initial strike passed, the VSU with the help of Western sponsors and teachers began to organize a well thought-out and furious resistance. iPhones, iPads and notebooks, in real time, day and night, at a speed of 250 mb/s, has the ability to track any movement of RF troops, down to a matchbox in the pocket of some Russian warrant officer in the latrine. Ukraine, pumped up with Western weapons, trained by competent military specialists and using the intelligence of American satellites, having the most advanced U.S. And taking into account the fact that all this mess in the heads of Europeans and Ukrainians was cooked up long ago, we got an explosion of hatred for Russia with all the ensuing consequences. However, as we moved deeper into the territory of Ukraine, VSU resistance grew in proportion to the inflated in Western media image of Russia as a terrible aggressor who started a war against the freedom-loving Ukrainian people. Clear successes of the Russian Army in the first days of the offensive and a number of air strikes with precision weapons on airfields, headquarters and reconnoitered positions of the VSU 1, the advantage in weapons quality, including aviation, made it possible to feel quite confident we would easily solve the assigned missions. Probably there are few now who doubt that our generals, along with the FSB (where would we be without it), and even Putin himself, believing in the power of the Russian Army exalted to the heavens by our glorious TV and other media, figured on one-two weeks to solve the problem by military means.įirst. This is completely logical because to leave a hotbed of evil, hatred, Banderovites and nationalism in its lair is to subscribe in advance to future problems on this very plane, if not even worse. The Russian people understood what Putin told them, that these declared goals and missions applied to the entire territory of Ukraine wholly and fully, including its western part. Special Military Operation in Ukraine: A View from the Sticksĭeveloping political and military events in Ukraine call forth a lot of questions, primarily about achieving aims announced by Russia’s president, which he said were de-Nazification and demilitarization. It’s Russia’s war and may last until Russia is defeated or exhausted. This kind of essay, from the right, from a more nationalist stance, underscores the war is not just Putin’s. To Turovskoy and certainly others, losing in Ukraine is worse than nuclear war. The so-called “escalate to de-escalate” strategy. There has been plenty of debate whether Moscow would go nuclear if its security were threatened by defeat in a conventional conflict. Lastly, he seems to suggest, however obliquely, that Russia prepare to use nuclear weapons to protect its interests if it continues losing the war on Ukraine. Putin is obviously part and parcel of all oligarchs in thrall to him.īut Turovskoy still seems to hope Putin might free himself from the oligarchs and prosecute a full-scale war. Turovskoy does all but urge stripping oligarchs of their assets to support the war and he calls for full military and economic mobilization.īut the commentator doesn’t say Putin himself is the top oligarch sitting astride the Russian economy. He blames Putin’s closest cronies, like FM Lavrov, for falling down on the job. in the West) and who are “not here with our people and with Russia.” He suggests the oligarchs could try to make some kind of deal to end the war in the Ukraine.īut he fires on Putin too, saying he should have struck Ukraine sooner. He identifies them with Putin’s “fifth column of national traitors” who “make money here in our country but live over there” (i.e. Turovskoy directs his main criticism at Russia’s oligarchs. The piece makes various points about the military’s operational failures to date and the West’s economic war to “destroy” Russia. While anti-war protesters are arrested and fined for “discrediting” the army, this sharp criticism of Putin’s campaign and his regime is not banned. Turovskoy’s article is a right-wing critique of Putin’s “special military operation” against Ukraine. Topwar often has useful information on military issues. One Vladimir Turovskoy published an op-ed on (aka Voyennoye obozreniye) on April 8.
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