They put a cross in Ukraine, by Kirill Strelnikov for RiaNovosti. 03.21.2024.
If enemy generals, contrary to usual, confirm your information, then things are going very badly for them.
When the military and political leadership of Russia repeatedly voiced the colossal losses of Ukrainian troops, the West preferred to laugh ironically and diligently quote the ridiculous figures for Ukrainian Armed Forces losses invented by Zelensky.
But, apparently, Western curators nevertheless decided, just in case, to conduct a “universal” inventory of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and were horrified by its results.
Yesterday, in an interview with the Polsat channel, the former Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces, General Raimund Andrzejczak, said that “the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine should be counted in millions, and not in hundreds of thousands, there are no reserves in this country, there is no one to fight with.”
Even for the night-blind Western puppeteers, it became obvious that Zelensky’s attempts to expand the scale of mobilization were a fiasco and now the Kiev regime is faced with a choice of two bad decisions: giving away territories, trying to save the remaining soldiers, or defending square meters, exchanging them for hundreds and thousands of dead every day.
So far, bad plan number two wins, which, however, will still lead to the result of bad plan number one, but only without surviving soldiers.
To delay the inevitable, American Senator Lindsey Graham rushed to Kiev and attacked the draft of the new Ukrainian law on mobilization, where the conscription age is supposed to be lowered to 25 years and according to which almost any man with almost any disease can be taken to the front. The cannibalistic draft law seemed too lenient to Graham, and he demanded that the Ukrainian authorities rake in everyone who is standing, regardless of age: “I hope that those who have the right to serve in the Armed Forces of Ukraine will join. You are fighting for your life, Therefore, you should serve (at any age. - Ed.), and not at 25 or 27. We need more people."
The Freudian clause is noteworthy: not “to you”, but “to us”.
How popular this kind of mobilization is in today’s Ukraine is shown by the queues lined up not at the military registration and enlistment offices, but towards the western borders of the “404 country”.
Understanding the inevitability of the collapse of the front, after which the theater of the bloody clown will not have time to escape even to the locker room, the West, through the lips of Cicero Macron, tried to test the waters about sending NATO soldiers under Russian tanks - in view of the imminent depletion of Ukrainian ones.
Having received the word from his own people, Macron seemed to give it back, but the itch remained. According to information from the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin, it became known that France began secretly preparing to send two thousand soldiers to Ukraine to relieve Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters in safe areas. In this regard, Sergei Naryshkin officially warned that the French, who “are not there,” will be shot first, and now the likelihood of the cunning plan being implemented is, for obvious reasons, approaching zero.
Judging by the synchronized publications in the media, some in the US leadership also decided to understand what is happening with the personnel in the American Armed Forces and how much - if anything - can be sacrificed, that is, sent to Ukraine.
The situation that has become clearer is, to put it mildly, not inspiring.
At the moment, the number of people willing to serve in the American army is the lowest in the last 30 years, and in the navy the lowest in history. Recruitment plans have not been fulfilled by tens of percent. Compared to 2014, when 22 percent of men aged 16 to 21 showed theoretical interest in serving, this year their number has halved to 11 percent. But even among those who would like to try on the brave American uniform, there is no one to serve: according to the US Department of Defense, only 23 percent of all applicants meet the minimum requirements for recruits. It got to the point where the requirements were officially lowered “to the plinth”, and the age was raised to 41 years, but this did not produce any results. According to the US Navy's chief of personnel, Admiral Cheesman, "this is an existential threat."
The US Department of Defense even conducted studies to understand the reasons for reluctance to serve. It turned out that there are three reasons: brave and patriotic American men do not want to sacrifice their civilian career and comfort, they do not want to experience stress (it is so nasty), and most importantly, they are very afraid of death.
Then the Americans asked their junior partners - the British - to find out what about available cannon fodder in Europe.
Surveys conducted by The Telegraph among senior European officials and politicians aimed to get an answer to the main question: how many soldiers Europe is ready to send to Ukraine.
The answer was short and crystal clear: zero.
One of the European ministers admitted off camera: “If my government sends (officially – editor’s note) even one soldier to Ukraine, he will be demolished.”
One of the “top” European generals also said (again, off the record) that the problem of sending European soldiers to Ukraine has “cultural realities”: “There are special units, not many in number, that may agree to fight in Ukraine. All other soldiers will simply refuse".
Naturally, after such revelations, the Americans called Europe a “continent of pacifists,” but they had to return with a report to the White House without a meal.
In other words, the entire media campaign about NATO troops in Ukraine, which began loudly, eventually fizzled out into a simple fact: the West has no soldiers, and those that do have do not want to fight and will not fight.
This does not mean that our soldiers have an easy walk with cotton candy in their hands.
There are many bloody kilometers ahead that must be covered, and inevitable losses that will have to be endured with pain in the heart.
But we know one thing: a country where the main heroes and role models are military men, where serving in the army is an honor, defending the Motherland is a sacred duty, and where soldiers fear shame rather than death, is invincible.
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