According to mainstream history, which is about as reliable as mainstream media, the USSR played no part in winning World War II. And according to mainstream media, which is about as reliable as mainstream history, Ukraine is on the verge of defeating Russia and just needs a little bit more support from NATO . . . and maybe a nuclear bomb or two. From Andrew Korybko at korybko.substack.com:
Zelensky’s attendance has more of a practical meaning than just reinforcing historically revisionist narratives about World War II since his discussions with the American, British, French, and German leaders will decide the coming escalations and the new peace process that might follow them by the end of summer.
A lot of media attention has been focused on the 80th D-Day anniversary considering its emotive significance and the participation of several international leaders at the event. Zelensky’s attendance alongside Biden and several of his Western European counterparts appears out of place since Ukraine had nothing to do with this operation. The only reason that he was invited was to advance NATO’s historically revisionist narrative about World War II and engage in a proxy war powwow.
To explain, the first refers to the false claim that the Western Allies were chiefly responsible for the Nazis’ defeat, not the Soviet Union. That twisted version of the truth has always been around but began to be fiercely propagated after 2014 and especially following the start of Russia’s special operation in 2022. This narrative was popularized in parallel with the one portraying the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, whose real importance was clarified here, as forging a Soviet-Nazi Alliance that made World War II possible.
It accordingly became unacceptable among the Western elite and opinionmakers to acknowledge the USSR’s role in defeating the Nazis. Since facts about the post-war order can’t be erased, however, they’ve instead taken to manipulating the events leading up to it in order to spin the tale that the First Ukrainian Front which played a leading role in the Battle for Berlin was a semi-independent force. To that end, they overlook that it was named as such for geographic reasons and instead claim that it was for ethnic ones.
Some awesome fireworks display going on outside in celebration.
Love those memes of they fought and died for a world they wouldn’t recognize, an Alien Nation.
Feeling alienated in this progressive “utopia” then you’re doing it right.
Fwance’s lil’ bankster boy didn’t declare WWIII today?
The faculty lounge loads up another bong and goes back to the coloring book drawing board.
Stalingrad, Kursk, the battles of Kharkov, Operation Bagration are some heavy lifting done by Ivan in WWII.
Stalin was actually despondent at the start of Barbarossa and failing to order any good defense, that changed quickly as he found his morale backbone at Sevastopol.
Hitler thought that the whole rotten edifice would come crashing down thanks to Stalin purging the generals in the 1930’s.
The Germans trained in Russia to evade Versailles but held the T-34 close to the vest for a later punch in the mouth.
Like ol’ Satan Alinsky said, what the enemy thinks you have is also a weapon.
This just in from Conan:
Every Man Is An Enemy
“It’s upon this basis that Russia wasn’t invited to attend the 80th D-Day anniversary but Zelensky was since the latter’s participation reinforces these views in the Western imagination.”
I would assert that much of the D-Day commemoration seems to have been directed at using the ceremony to whip support for modern interventions or tribal conflicts, and seeking to equate this interventionism as being subsidiary to WW2. I noted Biden at Point Du Hoc, of all places, while focusing on the war in Ukraine that he himself presided over starting, while his family arranged business deals in said state.
The commander at Point Du Hoc was a Ranger – Lt Col James Earl Rudder, whose Rangers take 50% casualties in the process. Rudder is reassigned to command of the 109th regiment of the 28th ID, which my grandfather was serving in, and this unit also takes massive casualties in ill-advised assaults into the Hurtgen Forest, then is left to is own devices to hold 50% of the entire front line during the Ardennes / Bulge.
By this point, Rudder is whip-smart to the situation, and while he counter-attacks into the German assault, it is only to attempt to extract a group of men from the 28th/109th who had called out that they were surrounded. From that point on, they consolidate and fight as long as possible, but he works to gain approval for a fighting withdrawal, no longer trusting the military or civilian command (Cota) to do anything but get a lot of people killed. He gets a lot of these men out, but the same ‘strategists’ in Political / Military positions send these same men to force the German army out of the Colmar Pocket, against the warning of Bledell-Smith that this unit was no longer capable of offensive action.
His unit, again, clears the Colmar Pocket of a superior force, and is then used as a battering ram into Germany..
The weapons and tech have long since changed, but the reality on the ground for military and political interests has not – The most valuable units are those who have already survived combat and are experienced, even as their numbers decline, so while you can alway draft more men, you cant draft any more combat-experienced men, which is the current dilemma for both the Uke’s and the reservist Israeli’s. Meaning, you have a finite usefulness for the most capable forces, until you have burned through them, and once that happens you enter a stage of declining returns.
Secondly, once you have shown those who you have sent into harms way that they are simply a blunt tool – not merely asking them to rise to the occasion, but sacrificing them at ANY possible opportunity / cause – others will see this as no longer a service to their people or families, but a calculated scheme to expend their own interests and lives in exchange for the geopolitical benefits of a global controller class who do not take any risk, but gorge themselves on profit.