Much and more has been made by Western presstitutes and whorenalists about the various offers by NATO governments to train Ukrainian soldiers by the thousands. The idea is to take men drafted into the Ukrainian army, train them up to some sort of a NATO standard over the course of a month or so, and then ship them right back to the 404th UkReich to be sent to the battlefront, using NATO tactics and operational doctrines to inflict a right proper hiding on those damned ROOSKEES!!!
You can just about hear the NATO military planners and politicians backslapping each other and saying, “it’s all good and we’re all good and we’re good people doing good things for other good people because it’s good, so good”.
One does not have to be a grass-green civilian, like me, to understand the fundamental wrongness of this approach to training people to fight.
Let me put this into some perspective. I used to train in the Israeli fighting art of Krav Maga under the tutelage of one of the students of the founder of the art, Imi Lichtenfeld, and who received every one of his belts, from yellow to black, in Imi’s presence. He then studied under Grandmaster Haim Zut to achieve the rank of 5th Dan, and is today ranked himself as a Grandmaster with his own school.
Do you know how long it took me to get to the very first level of the art? Just a simple yellow belt?
Ten months.
Some do it in four, some do it in twelve. Most people generally achieve that rank at around the six-month mark. That is about the amount of time required to train someone with the muscle memory and spatial awareness necessary to deliver strikes in the right order, at the right places, using the right techniques, to overwhelm an opponent.
Sloppy schools that teach shitty Krav Maga pass out students at yellow belts in two months – but, of course, those guys look like crap. I’ve seen it myself, and it irritates me no end to watch the art devalued and destroyed in such fashion.
So, if it takes that long to train people in the very basics of unarmed combat – how long do you suppose it would take to train a raw boot how to be a soldier?
I’ll give you a hint: it’s a damned sight longer than one month.
Which is about all the time that NATO trainers spend teaching their new charges – who were in their past lives woodmen, IT workers, farmers, truck drivers, manual labourers, and so on and so forth – to be soldiers.
You don’t have to take my word for it. RT did an interesting investigation into the nature of NATO “training” of Ukrainian soldiers in the UK, by speaking to a captured Ukrainian serviceman:
The full interview is about twice as long, but does not contain any additional colour commentary from the network, and is even more revealing about the rather parlous state of the AFU:
The result of all of this could not be more clear. NATO is producing nothing more than cannon fodder – more meat for the Russian grinder.
All they do, with Zelebobik the Crackhead’s full and knowing approval, is to feed in these men to the trenches of Artyomovsk and elsewhere along the Banderastan War front lines, as fresh meat. And the Russians simply crank up their artillery and drones and missiles, and turn them into piles of charred meat and broken bones.
Again, don’t take my word for it. Go lookup the Telegram channels @xoxol_uk and @zachistka_ua, if you can stomach really hardcore war PR0N, and see what you find. Do not do so just after you have eaten, though, especially if you are of a sensitive disposition. While I personally try very hard to avoid the worst of the war PR0N on my own Telegram channel, it does slip through inevitably from time to time, and it is not hard to see just how badly wrong the Banderastan War is going right now for the Ukromacht.
All of which means the very best we can say about NATO training and standards is that it gets Ukrainians killed.
Think about this for a moment. The NATO militaries, with the conspicuous exception of perhaps Turkey, have spent the last two decades fighting low-intensity conflicts all over the world against poorly armed, poorly equipped, often quite badly led light infantry forces that rely on raid and, in some cases, siege tactics – not assault tactics or combined-arms warfare.
Furthermore, as Andrei Martyanov and other dissident commentators in the West constantly point out, the West DOES NOT UNDERSTAND what real combined-arms warfare looks like. Western powers, to include the USSA, do not know what it means to overpower the enemy with overwhelming amounts of firepower concentrated across a narrow front line, because artillery on that kind of scale and volume is not something the West has dealt with in at least 60 years – and probably all the way back to WWII.
The Russians, however, are under no such illusions and have no such limitations. This is exactly how they fight – and they are really good at it.
This general impression corresponds well with direct testimony from the front lines by Ukrainian soldiers in temporarily-occupied Artyomovsk (Bakhmut, to the Ukrainians):
All of this evidence combines to tell us that the West is training hohols to have false hope and sending them off to die. And that is literally the BEST we can say for NATO tactics and doctrines.
It is all very well for the Royal Marines to train Ukrainians to fight for a month. I have had the privilege of interacting with a few Marines over my life – both of the British and American variety. I have always found the Marines, regardless of nationality, to be a breed apart. To a man, they are resolute, tough, dedicated, honest, upstanding, moral, decent, and courageous.
They live for the fight – every Royal Marine I have spoken with, has stated bluntly that Royal Marine recruits need to be sweated, they need to be beasted, and the harder they work, the happier they are. Royal Marines live to shoot stuff and yomp (essentially, go on long forced marches) – give a platoon of Royal Marines a shooting range and a few hundred thousand rounds of ammo to blast away with, and they’ll be happy as a boy with a puppy.
Marines don’t sign up for an easy life – they sign up to be different from the average soldier, to be a cut above, and to be dedicated to both the science and art of war.
They are, I repeat, profoundly admirable men. They are also, in the cold light of day, basically very tough and capable line infantry.
How do you suppose very tough line infantry would fare when faced with colossal volumes of artillery shelling, coming straight at them and around them, with no cover, nowhere to hide, little to no air support, and very little by way of their own artillery or suppressive counter-battery fire?
That’s right – they would die to the last man.
That is exactly what is happening to the Ukrainian soldiers trained by NATO instructors today.
The NATO instructors are training those men in the ways that they know how – to work and fight in small units, at the fireteam, squad, platoon, company, and possibly battalion level. But they are trying to train grass-green troops over the course of one month to be proper line infantry – a process that under the BEST of circumstances takes at least four times as long just to teach soldiers how to soldier properly at the individual level, never mind how to fight as an integrated unit.
This is nowhere near enough time to train men to fight in a real combined-arms war, against an enemy with vast resources and really potent C4ISR complexes – that can get ground-, drone-, aerial-, and space-based intelligence and firing coordinates, and that has both air and artillery superiority.
The Ukronazis keep telling their people that Russians are shitty soldiers that are being slaughtered in their tens of thousands. This is a lie, a pure fantasy. The best available estimates, as I have repeatedly pointed out, indicate Russian regular military deaths at just shy of 6,000 in early September, and probably around 7,000 by now, plus perhaps another 13,000 deaths among the LDNR militias, Wagner PMC ORKestra, OMON and SOBR units of the Rosgvardiya (National Guard) organisation, and all of the various volunteer units from Chechnya, Dagestan, Bashkortostan, Tuva, etc. etc.
As for Ukrainian casualties, the latest leaked intelligence from their people indicates a truly hideous butcher’s bill – of at least 100,000 dead, and possibly as many as 120-130,000. This corresponds well with reports from the front lines indicating that Russians have a force strength ratio of about 1:3 in many areas, yet are dishing out dead and wounded to their enemy at a rate of 6:1 and up to 10:1.
Surely it is now time for NATO powers to admit that, for all of their supposed understanding of the theory of war, they don’t actually understand its practical realities in a modern context against a really competent land-based military that has huge resources behind it? Perhaps it is time for the NATO powers to stop feeding in these men to die horribly in the mud and blood and suckage of Bakhmut?
But no. They will not – because this war is immensely profitable to the Western MIC, who are able to sell billions of dollars’ worth of useless wunderwaffen back to the NATO powers, and because it is personally profitable to the warmongering neoclowns and neolibs in Washington, London, Brussels, Paris, and Berlin. And let’s not forget the homos, Nazis, and coke fiends (not mutex) in Bankovaya in Kiev (or Queef, as I call it), who are quite happy to launder American cash to their offshore bank accounts to purchase villas in Tuscany and holiday homes in Miami.
There is a real Satanic evil festering in the Empire of Lies now. Let us hope and pray that it will be destroyed soon – because every day they continue to exist, hundreds and thousands more Ukrainian men die in the most awful ways imaginable for their ambitions.
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As a reserve officer, here is how long it takes to train infantry soldiers (the easiest combat training) :
3 months basic training, 3-6 months for platoon and company training.
You need at least 6-9 months training to get an inexperienced infantry soldier. If you want more (paratrooper, intelligence, tank operator or of the kind) it takes an additional 3-6 months.
The only thing you can get with a 1 month training are “support staff” or the ability to handle some of the weapons.