The raft of recent articles emerging from various Western (((whore-media)))))))))))) outlets, like SLIME Magazine and The Cuckonomist, are yet more confirmation, if one actually needed it, of just how badly things are going for Bellendsky the coke-fiend. The full piece on SLIME is available for free, and it is astonishingly honest, by the standards of Western whorenalism:
The usual sparkle of his optimism, his sense of humor, his tendency to liven up a meeting in the war room with a bit of banter or a bawdy joke, none of that has survived into the second year of all-out war. “Now he walks in, gets the updates, gives the orders, and walks out,” says one longtime member of his team. Another tells me that, most of all, Zelensky feels betrayed by his Western allies. They have left him without the means to win the war, only the means to survive it.
But his convictions haven’t changed. Despite the recent setbacks on the battlefield, he does not intend to give up fighting or to sue for any kind of peace. On the contrary, his belief in Ukraine’s ultimate victory over Russia has hardened into a form that worries some of his advisers. It is immovable, verging on the messianic. “He deludes himself,” one of his closest aides tells me in frustration. “We’re out of options. We’re not winning. But try telling him that.”
Zelensky’s stubbornness, some of his aides say, has hurt their team’s efforts to come up with a new strategy, a new message. As they have debated the future of the war, one issue has remained taboo: the possibility of negotiating a peace deal with the Russians. Judging by recent surveys, most Ukrainians would reject such a move, especially if it entailed the loss of any occupied territory.
Zelensky remains dead set against even a temporary truce. “For us it would mean leaving this wound open for future generations,” the President tells me. “Maybe it will calm some people down inside our country, and outside, at least those who want to wrap things up at any price. But for me, that’s a problem, because we are left with this explosive force. We only delay its detonation.”
For now, he is intent on winning the war on Ukrainian terms, and he is shifting tactics to achieve that. Aware that the flow of Western arms could dry up over time, the Ukrainians have ramped up production of drones and missiles, which they have used to attack Russian supply routes, command centers, and ammunition depots far behind enemy lines. The Russians have responded with more bombing raids against civilians, more missile strikes against the infrastructure that Ukraine will need to heat homes and keep the lights on through the winter.
The full piece paints a picture of a leader COMPLETELY out of touch with reality – of a sad, deluded leader moving imaginary divisions around on a fake map deep inside a bunker. I think it is generally accepted wisdom that he has a serious drug problem, too – as would any man, in his same situation, I suspect – which is precisely why I call him “Slava Cocaini”.
There was once another leader, in charge of a nation ruled by Nazis, who faced a similar situation in the closing days of a war his country lost, badly:
As I have said many times, there will come a day when that meme ceases to be funny. THIS IS STILL NOT THAT DAY.
The scale of the disaster unfolding in Ukraine is far beyond even the worst nightmares of the most ardent Russia-boosters. While I am avowedly pro-Russian, I try not to fall for wildly inflated estimates of Ukrainian casualties. Based on the available evidence, I have long argued the Ukrainians have suffered casualty and KIA rates in the range of 10:1 against the Russians – probably a bit higher in some places, and lower in others.
In Bakhmut, for instance, the attrition rate was probably only around 5:1 in Russia’s favour, and by the end of that battle, the Russians had lost somewhere close to 15,000 men. BBC/Mediazona estimates of Russian casualties, and in particular, deaths, bore this out – you could see a sharp spike in Russian deaths from late December through to early May, with a substantial drop-off after that.
But… recent data indicate the casualty rates to be far, FAR worse for the Ukrainians than even that rather horrible 10:1 ratio might indicate.
It took a little digging, but I found the RIA Novosti piece that Andrei Martyanov referenced in his video from a few days back. Here is the video, so you can get the full context:
And this is the article he references at around the 22:30 mark:
МОСКВА, 31 окт – РИА Новости. Украина уже не сможет собрать такую же боеспособную армию, какая была у нее до 24 февраля, и даже не сможет собрать те силы, которые начинали летом “контрнаступ”, заявил РИА Новости военный эксперт Алексей Леонков.
Ранее американский журнал Time опубликовал посвященный Украине материал, в котором отмечается, что ВСУ не хватит людей, чтобы использовать западное оружие, даже если США и их союзники поставят Киеву все обещанное вооружение, а ряды украинских войск настолько опустели, что средний возраст призывников вырос до 43 лет.
“Написанное в Time – это некий диагноз, близкий к объективности. Самым главным фактором остается человеческий фактор: собрать такую же боеспособную армию, которая была до 24 февраля, у них уже не получится. Даже не получится собрать те силы, которые были перед “контрнаступом”. Причем им не помогут ни иностранные наемники, ни террористы, которые за них воюют. Мобилизационный ресурс Украины исчерпан”, – сказал Леонков.
Он добавил, что на начало конфликта у Киева было около 200 тысяч штыков регулярной армии и 400 тысяч прошедших так называемую АТО. “Этот костяк у них закончился, а новый личный состав, обученный, в том числе, по натовским программам, имеет существенно худшую подготовку”, – отметил Леонков.
Говоря о мобилизационном резерве, эксперт отметил, что на начало СВО у Украины было 2 миллиона резервистов. “Из них 65% уже прошли через линию боевого соприкосновения, причем из этих 65% – 80% не вернулись домой и числятся либо погибшими, либо без вести пропавшими”, – рассказал эксперт.
TRANSLATION:
MOSCOW, October 31 – RIA Novosti. Ukraine will no longer be able to assemble the same combat-ready army that it had before February 24, and will not even be able to assemble the forces that launched the “counter-offensive” in the summer, military expert Alexei Leonkov told RIA Novosti.Earlier, the American magazine
Time published a material dedicated to Ukraine, which noted that
the Armed Forces of Ukraine will not have enough people to use Western weapons, even if the United States and its allies supply Kiev with all the promised weapons, and the ranks of the Ukrainian troops are so empty that the average age of conscripts has risen to 43 years.
“What was written in Time is a kind of diagnosis, close to objectivity. The most important factor remains the human factor: they will no longer be able to assemble the same combat-ready army that they had before February 24. They will not even be able to assemble the forces that were before the “counter-offensive.” “And neither foreign mercenaries nor terrorists who fight for them will help them. Ukraine’s mobilization resource has been exhausted,” Leonkov said.
He added that at the beginning of the conflict, Kiev had about 200 thousand bayonets of the regular army and 400 thousand who had undergone the so-called ATO. “They have run out of this backbone, and the new personnel, trained, among other things, according to NATO programs, have significantly worse training,” Leonkov noted.
Speaking about the mobilisation reserve, the expert noted that at the beginning of the Northern Military District, Ukraine had 2 million reservists. “65% of them have already passed through the line of combat contact, and of these 65% – 80% have not returned home and are listed as either dead or missing,” the expert said.
Do a little MAFF, and you will quickly realise the true scale of the unfolding catastrophe for Ukraine. Of 2 million reservists, 65% went through the front lines – i.e. the meat-grinders in Donbass and elsewhere – and of those 65%… 80% are dead, captured, or simply MIA.
That is a shade over ONE MILLION MEN. GONE. Simply vanished from Ukraine.
By comparison, the best estimates that I have seen thus far, of CONFIRMED Ukrainian KIAs, is in the 300,000 range, with the most sensible estimates placing their total death toll around 450,000 or so, give or take a few tens of thousands.
It is morbid in the extreme to banter about the deaths of literally tens of thousands of men as though they are statistics of a sportzball game. But that is the true state of things. And yet, there is evidence that tells us the true situation on the ground is even more apocalyptic than we thought.
Further evidence from the front lines confirms the dearth of manpower Ukraine now suffers. They are mobilising women, disabled people, pensioners, and even people with serious blood infections like HIV and Hepatitis. You can see ads on Ukrainian TV showing homosexuals smooching each other, with voice-overs telling the “men” involved that it doesn’t matter how one loves, as long as one loves one’s country. There are other adverts which tell women they should be passionate in bed, good homemakers in the house, and fierce fighters on the front lines.
This is not a nation at war. This is no longer even a nation.
It is instead an irretrievably broken military, with zero hope for victory, fighting with a gun at its back.
The recent interviews with the Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief, Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, confirm this impression (thank God for sites where you can get the whore-media output for free, without having to pay the scum for their bootlicking):
An army of Ukraine’s standard ought to have been able to move at a speed of 30km a day as it breached Russian lines. “If you look at nato’s text books and at the maths which we did, four months should have been enough time for us to have reached Crimea, to have fought in Crimea, to return from Crimea and to have gone back in and out again,” General Zaluzhny says sardonically. Instead he watched his troops get stuck in minefields on the approaches to Bakhmut in the east, his Western-supplied equipment getting pummelled by Russian artillery and drones. The same story unfolded on the offensive’s main thrust in the south, where inexperienced brigades immediately ran into trouble.
“First I thought there was something wrong with our commanders, so I changed some of them. Then I thought maybe our soldiers are not fit for purpose, so I moved soldiers in some brigades,” says General Zaluzhny. When those changes failed to make a difference, the general told his staff to dig out a book he once saw as a student. Its title was “Breaching Fortified Defence Lines”. It was published in 1941 by a Soviet major-general, P.S. Smirnov, who analysed the battles of the first world war. “And before I got even halfway through it, I realised that is exactly where we are because just like then, the level of our technological development today has put both us and our enemies in a stupor.”
That thesis, he says, was borne out as he went to the front line in Avdiivka, also in the east, where Russia has recently advanced by a few hundred metres over several weeks by throwing in two of its armies. “On our monitor screens the day I was there we saw 140 Russian machines ablaze—destroyed within four hours of coming within firing range of our artillery.” Those fleeing were chased by “first-person-view” drones, remote-controlled and carrying explosive charges that their operators simply crash into the enemy. The same picture unfolds when Ukrainian troops try to advance. General Zaluzhny describes a battlefield in which modern sensors can identify any concentration of forces, and modern precision weapons can destroy it. “The simple fact is that we see everything the enemy is doing and they see everything we are doing. In order for us to break this deadlock we need something new, like the gunpowder which the Chinese invented and which we are still using to kill each other,” he says.
This time, however, the decisive factor will be not a single new invention, but will come from combining all the technical solutions that already exist, he says. In a By Invitation article written for The Economist by General Zaluzhny, as well as in an essay shared with the newspaper, he urges innovation in drones, electronic warfare, anti-artillery capabilities and demining equipment, as well as in the use of robotics.
Western allies have been overly cautious in supplying Ukraine with their latest technology and more powerful weapons. Joe Biden, America’s president, set objectives at the start of Russia’s invasion: to ensure that Ukraine was not defeated and that America was not dragged into confrontation with Russia. This means that arms supplied by the West have been sufficient in sustaining Ukraine in the war, but not enough to allow it to win. General Zaluzhny is not complaining: “They are not obliged to give us anything, and we are grateful for what we have got, but I am simply stating the facts.”
The whole thing stinks of excuses and blamestorming, really. I have never understood, at any point in this conflict, why Western pundits continually elevated Gen. Zaluzhnyi to the lofty heights of a Napoleon or Waterloo. He never struck me as being particularly good at his job. A truly capable general would have recognised the sheer scale of the problem facing him, and would have understood the kind of opponent Russia represents – stoic, imperturbable, implacable, with vast resources behind it, and a track record of winning against literally every threat it has ever faced.
Gen. Zaluzhnyi strikes me as a man in love with his own legend – and, infuriatingly, that has gotten tens, even hundreds, of thousands of his own countrymen killed in the process.
An honourable man would have resigned in protest at the active massacres of his best men. Zaluzhnyi did not. He seems to enjoy the power and perks that come with his position – which, if rumour is to be believed, includes boning nubile young Ukrainian women, plural, in Queef itself, while his men bleed and die under Russian ORKtillery and the burning rain of Tos-1A hell-weapons.
The situation for Ukraine is disastrous. It must sue for peace as soon as possible. But it will not, because of the hubris and stupidity of its President – a man of middling intelligence and low competence, with evidently zero capacity for strategic thought, and who clearly cares not one whit for honesty or decency. Bellendsky the Piano-Playing Peckerwood has said as much, and not for the first, or last, time.
What, then, will the Russians do? Well, interestingly, Bellendsky actually has very little to fear from the Russians. As the Brits discovered with Hitler, back in the day, keeping Bellendsky alive and in power actually serves them very well:
The Time article is a black mark. American elites have realized that as long as Zelensky is in power in Ukraine, Western support will either be burned for one man’s ambitions or simply plundered – both to Russia’s advantage.
Obviously, Washington needs to replace the disgraced Napoleon-wannabe with someone more manageable – the question is how. Preferably in a good way, by organizing presidential elections in due course next spring, and some movement in this direction has already begun: the political scene has been revived, yesterday’s heroes like Pyotr Poroshenko and Yulia Timoshenko have re-emerged, even Zelensky’s former adviser Alexey Arestovich, who a year ago spoke enthusiastically of Ukraine’s imminent victory, has cleverly changed his shoes and started to reveal the truth about the disastrous leadership of his old boss.
But Zelensky is against it, as he has repeatedly said with varying degrees of hysteria: who needs elections, he suggests, when I am saving humanity? If you want elections, hold them yourself at your own expense, and so on. Society is also against it (according to various polls, 60%-80% of Ukrainians believe that the next vote should be held after the end of hostilities).
Public opinion could have been ignored (this corresponds to the standards of Western democracy), but if Zelensky goes to the polls, he will win them: he is still the most popular politician among Ukrainians (76% approval, with only the army having a higher rating). Zelensky is more popular than all other possible candidates combined. This is down to two years of rolling military propaganda and the information bubble that has trapped Ukrainian society, which has been brainwashed into believing that the country is winning.
In addition, Zelensky and his entourage, led by the Grey Cardinal Andrey Yermak, wiped out the opposition inside the country, destroying the traditional intra-elite system in which oligarchs organized party projects and elected presidents to suit themselves. Zelensky and Yermak created a power vertical unprecedented by Ukrainian standards, restricted to a narrow circle of friends. In general, the process of dismantling traditional regional privileges that began under Poroshenko has been completed: now the direction must be obtained in Kiev, and all financial flows (which have been reduced almost entirely to Western money) pass through the capital. The information field has been cleaned up – there is almost no media independent of the presidential administration left in the country.
All this means that the US will not be able to quickly create a political project to replace Zelensky: paradoxically, since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, its control over internal Ukrainian processes has diminished and is now reduced to control over Zelensky, who, it seems, cannot be controlled. In fact, he is uncontrollable.
There are two options left: either to persuade Zelensky to leave amicably by pointing to Washington’s chosen successor, or simply to kill him: a dead hero is better than a living psycho.
Of course, all this is to our advantage: the longer Zelensky remains in power, the longer Ukraine will continue to fight, bringing its collapse closer.
Therefore, we should take care of Zelensky, and protect him as best we can.
The situation confronting Zelebobik is really pretty straightforward.
The Americans are clearly desperate to get rid of Bellendsky and replace him with someone who might actually be able to talk to the Russians and negotiate an honourable peace – though the odds of that happening diminish with every passing day. Russian peace terms are going to be far harsher today than they were in March 2022 – if the Russians do not, at minimum, demand the cession of ALL of Kherson and Zaporozh’ye regions, as well as what remains of Donetsk region, AND the cession of Kharkov, Odessa, NIkolaev, and Krivoy Rog, they are damned fools.
And if the past 18 months have proven anything, it is that the Russians are not stupid.
Bellendsky cannot negotiate with the Russians – he literally signed a constitutional amendment, voted for unanimously (as far as I remember) by the Verkhovna Rada, forbidding peace treaties of any kind with Russia. Worse, if he does try to buck that little problem, he will find himself on the business end of a gun pointed at him by the actual Nazis running his government, like the odious Andrey Biletskiy, founder of the Azov Brigade.
Zelebobik could always run to one of his various bolt-holes around the world – he is a proper oligarch in his own right, owning fancy properties in Miami, Lake Como, London, and elsewhere. He is EASILY worth several billion dollars by now. But… if he did, he would be in the crosshairs of every Western intelligence service that wants a piece of his hide. He would never be safe, and he would never again be free.
The Russians, believe it or not, are actually his best bet. If he surrenders to them, he can live safely under house arrest for the rest of his life – never having to face the wrath of his countrymen, who will one day understand and be enraged by the horrendous cost of the war he led them to fight. He will be safe from Western unintelligence services like the CIA and MI-6, who will seek to silence him for what he knows.
It is not a great deal. But it is far better than life in prison in the West – or, worse, a bullet through the brain from the Azov goons.
That bullet, by the way, is far, FAR better than he deserves. What he TRULY deserves is to be skinned alive by the relatives of the men his feckless stupidity led him to sacrifice, then rolled in salt, before finally being burned at the stake.
Sadly, we will probably never see that spectacle. But, sooner or later, his master, the Prince of this world, will come to claim his soul – and that will be a good day indeed.
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I have never understood, at any point in this conflict, why Western pundits continually elevated Gen. Zaluzhnyi to the lofty heights of a Napoleon or Waterloo.
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because it’s propaganda ( every bit as much as mRNA jabs, only racist-sexist-homophobes hate new Star Wars or global warming / green energy ) and his actual abilities and ( lack of ) accomplishments are completely irrelevant to the narrative the media is going to spin up.
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and i would actually give him some credit for his analysis of the situation; that neither side can make much on-the-ground progress without suffering horrendous losses.
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which is borne out by the simple fact that neither side actually has made much progress in the last year. with the caveat that Russia is the only party to the conflict that really has a choice in this but at the same time realizing that Russia also needs to hold back enough reserve to dissuade NATO countries from doing something really stupid.
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and negotiate an honourable peace
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i would quibble and say that Biden wants an out that is hopefully not as embarrassing as the Afghanistan withdrawal. “honor” has nothing to do with it.