[Kiev, 2/11/16]
Linh Dinh – Substack March 9, 2022
Laying siege to a city, you’re not just cutting it off from reinforcement and supplies, but information. In Ukraine, the Russians aren’t quite doing that. Even more incredibly, they still allow trains to run. Two weeks into Russia’s invasion, you can still take a train from Kharkov to Lviv, then board a bus to Poland, all for free. Russia clearly wants civilians out of the warzone so it can engage what’s left of the Ukrainian military.
Still, why hasn’t Russia shut down Ukrainians’ access to propaganda from Kiev and the West? With electricity and Wi-Fi still on, Ukrainians can get all these stories of Zelensky humiliating an evil, delusional and bumbling Putin, with demoralized Russian troops just begging to be allowed to trek home, in the snow.
Earlier, the West celebrated the “Ghost of Kyiv,” a nameless Ukrainian pilot who supposedly shot down six Russian planes. The always reliable Wikipedia explains, “Although not confirmed to be real, the Ghost of Kyiv has been credited as a morale booster for Ukrainians.”
How delicate to define a total lie as “not confirmed to be real.” As a sure sign of desperation, absurd lies can’t boost morale for long, though.
Now, we’re told a Ukrainian woman has just downed a Russian drone with a jar of tomatoes, thrown from her balcony. With such force and accuracy, this broad must be signed to your favorite MLB team as a lights out closer!
Another one, two, three 9th inning from the Babushka of Kyiv! When you see Elena jog from the bullpen, game’s over!
I only found out about this awesome slinger from Graham Siebert, an American in Kiev:
Effective Use of Marinated Tomatoes—Yesterday, while having a cigarette on the balcony of her Kyiv apartment, a Ukrainian “Babushka” heard a buzzing sound nearby. Soon she realized that the buzz came from a Russian drone, likely used for artillery spotting. She reached under her chair, picked up a jar of marinated tomatoes, and she threw the jar, still containing the tomatoes, at the drone. As describe in this article, she scored a direct hit. She and her husband went downstairs, recovered the pieces of the downed drone, and threw them in separate garbage cans.
The article mentioned is in The Mirror, a London tabloid, and Siebert doesn’t just believe it without question, but adds, “There is no one else in the World who could pull this off, other than Ukrainians.” A day earlier, Seibert already said:
I’m feeling pretty prescient. I blogged at the very beginning of the war that the countryside would be too marshy for armor to operate, and the roads were inadequate. I recently gave credit to General Mud for stymieing the advance. That’s probably as good of a single sentence analysis as you will get.
We should be close to the point at which Ukrainians invite the demoralized soldiers to walk back home, leaving their equipment behind them. Ukraine will have the best army in Europe.
As a record of an articulate civilian under the stresses of war, Seibert’s accounts from a besieged Kiev are fascinating. Responsible for a wife, three children and parents-in-law, Seibert must stay strong and calm. In fact, he ends most blogs with an assertion of male strength, such as, “That’s the news from Lake WeBeGone, where the strong man slept in late, the good-looking woman was contentedly in his arms, and Grandma got the children breakfast. An above average breakfast, of course.”
On a practical level, Siebert has filled sandbags, stocked up on food and boiled all his eggs, just in case the electricity is cut.
For all his optimism, Seibert must know this war can get much worse, and it will, I believe, unless Ukraine surrenders. There’s no way Putin will withdraw his troops defeated. If Russia loses, she’s finished, so Putin will commit whatever is needed, manpower or weapon wise, to prevent that.
At the start of Russia’s invasion, Chris Hedges wrote that although “Russia has every right to feel threatened, betrayed, and angry,” it’s still in the wrong, because “preemptive war, whether in Iraq or Ukraine, is a war crime.”
The Russian invasion, though, is only an escalation of a war that began in 2014, with the US-orchestrated Maidan Revolution. Ukraine’s steady attacks on the breakaway Donbas have killed thousands of Russian civilians, and made refugees of 1.4 million. If Ukraine was admitted into NATO, hostile nuclear missiles would be just 8 minutes from Moscow, and unfriendly troops 180 miles from Volgograd, a chokepoint for Russian oil and natural gas from the Caspian Sea. Putin had to act.
Let’s not kid ourselves, NATO is not a defensive pact but Uncle Sam’s mercenary army, to be sent wherever. Most of the “coalition” soldiers who died in Iraq and Afghanistan were from NATO.
Every war is filled with war crimes, and not only that, each war is, by definition, a crime against humanity, for no one, soldier or civilian, deserves to die in the most grotesque manner, with maximum pain and minimal dignity, as is routine in war. That said, peace at any cost is even worse, else nation after nation wouldn’t fight wars.
Though Hedges titles his article, “The Greatest Evil Is War,” it’s obviously not true to Volodymyr Zelensky, the Babushka of Kyiv or the heroic Ukrainian soldiers celebrated by Graham Seibert, for they can end this war by simply surrendering, and they should, actually, to save lives.
Blustering, the West is willing to fight to the last Ukrainian, with Zelensky as their chickenshit thespian. In Tablet Magazine, the Paris-based Vladislav Davidzon gushes, “Glory to Ukraine! And glory to Zelensky, the bravest Jew on earth!”
If you’re unfamiliar with “chickenshit,” it means the mindless, counterproductive or even deadly commands that often come from military leaders.
In his classic Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War, Paul Fussell devotes an entire chapter to chickenshit. An excerpt:
Some of the Second World War masters of chickenshit became famous for it, like General Patton. He insisted that members of his Third Army dress genteelly in the combat zone, and many men died with their neckties tucked in between the second and third shirt buttons. The war’s champion practitioner was probably Hitler, with his insistence on appearing to win the war instead of winning it, and his devotion to the heroic facade regardless. General Paulus at Stalingrad begged to relieve the suffering by surrendering while some troops were left alive. He addressed the Fuhrer in these terms:
ARMY REQUESTS IMMEDIATE PERMISSION TO SURRENDER IN ORDER TO SAVE LIVES OF REMAINING TROOPS
and added a heartrending recital of disaster, including the destruction of five whole divisions, with 18,000 of the wounded unattended in their agony. Paulus concluded: “COLLAPSE INEVITABLE.” To this Hitler sent this monumentally chickenshit reply:
SURRENDER IS FORBIDDEN. SIXTH ARMY WILL HOLD THEIR POSITIONS TO THE LAST MAN AND THE LAST ROUND AND BY THEIR HEROIC ENDURANCE WILL MAKE AN UNFORGETTABLE CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A DEFENSIVE FRONT AND THE SALVATION OF THE WESTERN WORLD.
What Zelensky is doing with Ukrainian soldiers and civilians is actually worse than chickenshit. As with Ihor Kolomoyskyi, his Jewish pygmalion, to see as many dead Slavs as possible is an end in itself.
Ever more nakedly, they’re trying to wreck the entire West. With embargo caused food shortage widely forecast, another holodomor looms.
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More like as many dead Aryan Ukrainians as possible..Its all going according to the plan of the Zionist-Communist Overlords & their yarmulke Chabad Presidents/PMs (Putin, Zelensky, Biden, Johnson etc)…the longer the war–the more white gentiles (‘Nazis’) will be eliminated to further Nonwhite Supremacy
“Every war is filled with war crimes, and not only that, each war is, by definition, a crime against humanity, for no one, soldier or civilian, deserves to die in the most grotesque manner, with maximum pain and minimal dignity, as is routine in war. That said, peace at any cost is even worse, else nation after nation wouldn’t fight wars.”
Truly spoken from the horse’s mouth. Mr. Dihn not only speaks the truth in that paragraph, but has experienced what he penned in that paragraph. Watching as a youth in his country while his home land was invaded by people who had no business being there. He watched as his neighbors, kin and others were blown back into the stone age. Brought to you by the same synagogue of Satanist thugs that are still operating now; bringing their crimes of death, destruction and mayhem to what country their bloodlust desires.
To Nico X–Whites have never sought supremacy, only Jews and the Nazis (second-hand Jews). There is the Brahmin Caste in India but what are they, a mix of European and Harappa, Mohenjo-Daro people? The USA had some racial bullies, thanks to the Jews’ Old Testament guidance, and the Jew Paul.
Nico X
I notice you ignore the quotation from your Fuhrer, showing what an uncaring idiot that man was.
My god – a vaguely attractive girl.
That IS a girl, right?
@lewis jones…
I think the Greeks the Romans the Teutons the Normans the Spanish the Dutch the swedes and the Catholic Church would disagree with that assertion… all of ’em whiteys (sort of…but then most whites are sort of… unless you are a blonde ‘Nordic’ or a ginge)
you could even throw in the perfidious English… and then whistle British Grenadiers as you trot of to the vaccine center…
It turns out that General Patton was correct when he said “we fought the wrong enemy”. No honest student of history could disagree with his assessment of what was done to the German people and the depravity of the Russian invaders who were incited by Stalin and Ilya Ehrenberg. Check out what Patton had to say about Jews and his absolute revulsion to what the bolshevik controlled American and USSR Government did to a defeated and starving nation. http://www.renegadetribune.com/general-pattons-warning-on-communism-and-jews/
Tell us honestly, do you think you know more about WWII, American Armed Forces, Jews and the Russian Army than General Patton? With respect to Hitler’s response to General Paulus, Hitler knew what awaited German soldiers who surrendered to be sent to Jewish run gulags. They were subjected to absolute barbaric conditions and treatment. Jews are world famous for surviving German concentration camps, on the other hand, Germans did not survive the gulags. That is a fact. If you have the slightest doubt about what happened to them read John Sacks ‘An Eye For An Eye’. That’s just a part of the forbidden history and Sack said that he could never have gotten the book printed if he wasn’t Jewish.
They killed tens of thousands in those Russian camps and murdered millions of Germans after the defeat of Germany. They also kidnapped more than ten thousand German child orphans and took them to what became Israel. We can sympathize with the Russian people who were murdered by the tens of millions under the Jewish regimes of Lenin and Stalin but Hitler was right about the USSR preparations for attacking Germany before Operation Barbarossa and he was right about what would happen to Europe if Germany lost the war. I defy anyone to refute any of this. Ilya Ehrenburg wrote a ‘poem’ instructing the Jewish controlled Red Army to rape and murder every German woman from 8 to 80. Force yourself to read about it because they intend to do it again to what is left of the white race.
Ilya Ehrenberg told army to rape the Germans kill them: http://www.revisionist.net/human-loot.html
Bob Smith
You make valid historical points, German women were treated barbarously but you reasoning regarding Hitler’s quotation isn’t supported by any evidence. If Hitler was trying to spare 6th Army from a fate worse than death, he should have communicated that to Paulus and allow Paulus to at least try to negotiate more favourable terms. That would have been the more humane command. Instead he says never surrender, in an insane stubbornness and also makes Paulus a Field Marshall. The reasoning here was not to acknowledge any heroic defence of Stalingrad, but simply that no German Field Marshall had ever been taken alive, so Hitler was trying to get Paulus to commit suicide. What a great leader, fortunately Paulus did surrender and was used for propaganda purposes against the 3rd Reich, so at least he was treated with a little dignity but of course as you rightly point out his men were not. Most died marching to camps in Siberia. I read only about 5,000 men from 6th Army ever returned to Germany after the war and camps. Still that is 5,000 more than would have survived if Paulus had obeyed his inhuman boss.
@henry h…Hitler isn’t to be blamed for the war or loss of battles, since Britain/France started the war & the USA/Britain were transporting immense amounts of material (tanks, planes, food, weapons, etc) to Communist Russia, without which the Soviet scum would have been eradicated & the USSR originally violated the Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact with the invasion of Bukovina/Bessarabia in 1940 (Axis territory)..Blame the Zionist-Communist scum of Britain/USA/France/USSR for the death of the German soldiers at Stalingrad..
nico x – interesting that history repeats itself with ukraine!
The word “slave” comes from the word “Slav.” Check Etymology Online if you don’t believe me.
The Germans and the (Central Asian by origin) Magyars/Hungarians were already hunting the Slavs and selling them into slavery as early as the 10th century.
The Slavs had a reputation as attractive yet docile, easy-going and hard-working. Other than tropical heat, they could tolerate virtually anything.
And here we are, a thousand years later. Having been consistently thrown under the bus by their “allies” in France, England etc., the Poles, Slovaks, Czechs, Serbians and other Slavs are still laboring on the cheap for Western corporates who will then repatriate all profits. Or serving as a convenient battleground to ignite global transformations.
Amazing how history keeps repeating itself.
To Chesterton–we have had supremacisms but they were tribal, Royal or religious. White supremacism we have not had; even Hitler was tribal and did not respect Slavs, for example.
There is some merit to Hitler’s insistence that Paulus hold out to the very end. As long as Paulus did so, his predicament tied down enough Soviet armies that the Germans were able to withdraw completely from the Caucasus. It must be remembered that the Soviets were trying desperately to push towards Rostov to cut-off those German armies that had been sent south to capture the oil fields at Baku.
If, in fact, those armies had been cut-off, the only way to evacuate them would have been across the Black Sea but the Germans, however, did not have the means of doing this in any meaningful way. Also, the Black Sea was infested with Soviet submarines so it really was a matter of choosing the lesser of two evils.
It must be pointed out that Hitler never would have had to face these kinds of problems if he accepted the reality that the Soviets were certainly not ‘finished’ as he repeatedly told himself and his Generals all through the summer of 1942. Instead, he rushed pell-mell towards Stalingrad, his left flank dangerously exposed and manned only by poorly equipped and trained Italian and Rumanian troops.
Bob Smith is absolutely correct.
Henry h, take a look around you. Western civilization is being destroyed by the victors of WW2.
Adolf Hitler was correct. Germany was involved in a genocidal war where surrender was not an option.
Nico X
Hitler isn’t to be blamed for the loss of battles?? His obsession with Stalingrad which had no strategic significance allowed the war to be lost as morale collapsed. Why did he so desperately want to take that city? Answer – because the city was named after his enemy. Hardly a display of common sense but a show of a grandiose dreamer who wasted his men. Or more likely, he was another fake pied piper planted by ZOG to subvert a country with potential to scupper ZOG plans.