Yes we are being lied to. “civilian insurgency” from people that have never handled weapons before? I don’t see that strategy as being anything but bad for the insurgents themselves. Reminds me of when hitler was handing out weapons to old guys and kids, it was obvious it was going bad and about to go a lot worse… for them.
Often I see Zelensky as seeing himself doing his latest script for a movie - dressed for the role and knowing his lines. However whoever put him there only needed a younger face with the ability to play the role and it was a go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BOEt_pAVgE
Volkssturm rules! Isn’t it a war crime on the part of the Ukrainian government to agitate idiots to die this way?
Ukraine was not a serious country. They have known at least since Putin went into Georgia, took Crimea, etc, who and what they lived next to.
A serious country would have issued weapons to a citizen militia ten years ago and trained them all this time. Their military would have trained to fight as insurgents and to assist the militia, with hardened fighting positions prepared in depth between the Russian border and their major cities.
This is like watching people evacuating their homes that they built in a floodplain, or their beach houses in the face of a Cat 5 hurricane. It’s sad. But in Aristotelian terms, it’s not a tragedy, it’s just pathetic.