Laying siege to a city, you\u2019re not just cutting it off from reinforcement and supplies, but information. In Ukraine, the Russians aren\u2019t quite doing that. Even more incredibly, they still allow trains to run. Two weeks into Russia\u2019s 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\u2019s left of the Ukrainian military.<\/p>\n
Still, why hasn\u2019t Russia shut down Ukrainians\u2019 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.<\/p>\n
Earlier, the West celebrated the \u201cGhost of Kyiv,\u201d a nameless Ukrainian pilot who supposedly shot down six Russian planes. The always reliable Wikipedia explains, \u201cAlthough not confirmed to be real, the Ghost of Kyiv has been credited as a morale booster for Ukrainians.\u201d<\/p>\n
How delicate to define a total lie as \u201cnot confirmed to be real.\u201d As a sure sign of desperation, absurd lies can\u2019t boost morale for long, though.<\/p>\n
Now, we\u2019re 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!<\/p>\n
Another one, two, three 9th inning from the Babushka of Kyiv! When you see Elena jog from the bullpen, game\u2019s over!<\/p>\n
I only found out about this awesome slinger from Graham Siebert, an American in Kiev:<\/p>\n
Effective Use<\/a> of Marinated Tomatoes\u2014Yesterday, while having a cigarette on the balcony of her Kyiv apartment, a Ukrainian \u201cBabushka\u201d 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<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n The article mentioned is in The Mirror<\/em>, a London tabloid, and Siebert doesn\u2019t just believe it without question, but adds, \u201cThere is no one else in the World who could pull this off, other than Ukrainians.\u201d A day earlier, Seibert already said:<\/a><\/p>\n I\u2019m 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\u2019s probably as good of a single sentence analysis as you will get.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n As a record of an articulate civilian under the stresses of war, Seibert\u2019s 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, \u201cThat\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n On a practical level, Siebert has filled sandbags, stocked up on food and boiled all his eggs, just in case the electricity is cut.<\/p>\n For all his optimism, Seibert must know this war can get much worse, and it will, I believe, unless Ukraine surrenders. There\u2019s no way Putin will withdraw his troops defeated. If Russia loses, she\u2019s finished, so Putin will commit whatever is needed, manpower or weapon wise, to prevent that.<\/p>\n At the start of Russia\u2019s invasion, Chris Hedges wrote that although \u201cRussia has every right to feel threatened, betrayed, and angry,\u201d it\u2019s still in the wrong, because \u201cpreemptive war, whether in Iraq or Ukraine, is a war crime.\u201d<\/p>\n The Russian invasion, though, is only an escalation of a war that began in 2014, with the US-orchestrated Maidan Revolution. Ukraine\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s not kid ourselves, NATO is not a defensive pact but Uncle Sam\u2019s mercenary army, to be sent wherever. Most of the \u201ccoalition\u201d soldiers who died in Iraq and Afghanistan were from NATO.<\/p>\n 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\u2019t fight wars.<\/p>\n Though Hedges titles his article<\/a>, \u201cThe Greatest Evil Is War,\u201d it\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n Blustering, the West is willing to fight to the last Ukrainian, with Zelensky as their chickenshit thespian. In Tablet Magazine<\/a><\/em>, the Paris-based Vladislav Davidzon gushes, \u201cGlory to Ukraine! And glory to Zelensky, the bravest Jew on earth!\u201d<\/p>\n If you\u2019re unfamiliar with \u201cchickenshit,\u201d it means the mindless, counterproductive or even deadly commands that often come from military leaders.<\/p>\n In his classic Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War<\/em>, Paul Fussell devotes an entire chapter to chickenshit. An excerpt:<\/p>\n 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\u2019s 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:<\/p>\n ARMY REQUESTS IMMEDIATE PERMISSION TO SURRENDER IN ORDER TO SAVE LIVES OF REMAINING TROOPS<\/p>\n 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:<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Ever more nakedly, they\u2019re trying to wreck the entire West. With embargo caused food shortage widely forecast, another holodomor looms.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/As-many-dead-slavs-as-possible.jpeg\")
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