A compartmentalization of the Ukraine-Russia war from Declan Hayes at strategic-culture.su:
Russia is in control of the battlefield but not the media war where NATO’s hired hacks still spin tales of abducted children and civilian massacres.
First off, hats off to Russia Today’s fine article on Sudan, which synopsised the conflict there into a short introduction, plus six digestible sub-sections titled as follows: what caused the fighting; what do the warring factions want; humanitarian catastrophe; failed mediation; foreign interference; are peace hopes delusional? The beauty of that RT approach to Sudan is it gives us an overview of the situation and breaks it down into compartments, so we can identify bottlenecks hindering a solution and, as the Sudanese problem has, like that in Ukraine, been bubbling along for some years, we have a track record with which to gauge the veracity of the various players and contributors to the conflict. So let’s begin the process of applying that to Ukraine.
What caused the fighting?
Just as the Palestinian issue did not begin on October 7th 2023, even Wikipedia admits that the Ukrainian issue did not begin when Russian President Putin ordered his troops into Ukraine in February 2022. Although Putin tried to explain the historical roots of the conflict in his famous Tucker Carlson interview, because wars are fuelled on emotions, not cold realism, Westerners tuned into Putin for sound bites, not for relevant history lessons. That said, the Russian government have been clear that they cannot and will not live with a Nazi rump Reich in Ukraine being used as a knife held to their throat. They decided to fight that menace today, rather than fight a bigger menace tomorrow. That, for what it is worth, is their position.
The Zelensky regime sees things differently. Even though they have removed all trappings of democracy, they argue they are fighting for democracy and, therefore, for me and thee. Though I really wish they wouldn’t, NATO’s media are still portraying them as heroes, warrior angels with Nazi era tattoos and dodgy accounting practices.
What do the warring factions want?
The Russian government have been clear in their war aims. Believing that the lives and liberties of those Russian speakers living in Eastern Ukraine cannot be guaranteed under Kiev’s rule, they are determined to fight and die to remove what they believe is Kiev’s tyranny over them.
