How many Ukrainian soldiers realized that they were risking, and in many cases losing, their lives so the U.S. could weaken Russia? From Jonathan Grotefendt at antiwar.com:
Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud
Last week Western leaders started voicing their frustration with the Ukrainian counteroffensive. The frustration is rooted in Ukraine not using “combined arms” tactics on the battlefield. This means integrating infantry, armored vehicles, and artillery. Basically, their complaint is that Ukraine isn’t going hard enough.
The New York Times reported, “Senior US officials in recent weeks had privately expressed frustration that some Ukrainian commanders, exasperated at the slow pace of the initial assault and fearing increased casualties among their ranks, had reverted to old habits – decades of Soviet-style training in artillery barrages – rather than sticking with the Western tactics and pressing harder to breach the Russian defenses.”
According to the West, Ukraine is playing it too conservative, attempting to clear minefields and other obstacles to minimize human casualties – as if the “Soviet style” tactics were light on throwing bodies at the enemy during WWII.
This Western analysis of the current situation is written with an arrogant sense of superiority, as if saying “listen up, Ukrainians, don’t you understand you’re supposed to be throwing even more bodies at the deeply entrenched Russian army which had months to fortify their multiple belt lines of defense on the other side of thick mine fields and have a staggering amount of artillery and air defense superiority? What don’t you understand?”
They’re saying the quiet part out loud: Ukrainians are disposable in the quest to “weaken Russia.” Thousands, potentially tens of thousands of Ukrainians have died in the counteroffensive alone, which has produced no sizable gains for Kyiv.
