Posted on 02/26/2024 11:04:07 AM PST by Red6
I just got back from Ukraine, where I was visiting some friends.
Everything we have heard about what’s happening in Ukraine is a lie.
The reality is darker, bleaker, and unequivocally hopeless. There is no such thing as Ukraine "winning" this war.
- By their estimates, they have lost over one million of their sons, fathers and husbands; an entire generation is gone.
- Even in the Southwest, where the anti-Russian sentiment is long-standing, citizens are reluctant or straight-up scared to publicly criticize Zelensky; they will go to jail.
- In every village and town, the streets, shops, and restaurants are mostly absent of men.
- The few men who remain are terrified of leaving their homes for fear of being kidnapped into conscription. Some have resorted to begging friends to break their legs to avoid service.
- Army search parties take place early in the morning, when men leave their homes to go to work. They ambush and kidnap them off the streets and within 3-4 hours they get listed in the army and taken away straight to the front lines with minimal or no training at all; it is "a death sentence."
- It's getting worse every day. Where I was staying, a dentist had just been taken by security forces on his way to work, leaving behind two small children. Every day, 3-5 dead bodies keep arriving from the front lines.
- Mothers and wives fight tooth and nail with the armed forces, beg and plead not to have their men taken away. They try bribing, which sometimes works, but most of the time they are met with physical violence and death threats.
- The territory celebrated as having been "won back" from Russia has been reduced to rubble and is uninhabitable. Regardless, there is no one left to live there and displaced families will likely never return.
- They see the way the war has been reported, at home and abroad. It's a "joke" and "propaganda." They say: “Look around: is this winning?”.
- Worse, some have been hoaxed into believing that once Ukrainians forces are exhausted, American soldiers will come in to replace them and “win the war”.
There is no ambiguity in these people. The war was for nothing - a travesty. The outcome always was, and is, clear. The people are hopeless, utterly destroyed, and living in an unending nightmare.
They are pleading for an end, any end - most likely the same "peace" that could have been achieved two years ago. In their minds, they have already lost, for their sons, fathers and husbands are gone, and their country has been destroyed. There is no "victory" that can change that.
Make no mistake, they are angry with Putin. But they are also angry with Zelensky and the West. They have lost everything, worst of all, hope and faith, and cannot comprehend why Zelenky wishes to continue the current trajectory, the one of human devastation.
I didn't witness the war; but what I saw was absolutely heart-breaking.
Shame on the people, regardless of their intentions, who have supported this war. And shame on the media for continuing to lie about it.
Not a Biden White House press release.
Not a Ukrainian Public Relations unit submitting "news" that gets copied and pasted in Newsweek and elesewhere.
Not the Western MSM which abliges to requests not to report on Ukrainian casualties and losses of equipment, avoid discussion of the use of mercenaries, Azov, inter-war abuses on ethnic Russians... In Vietnam, the DoD read through soldiers mail and censored incoming and outgoing mail in order to keep up the morale of troops and to prevent derogatory information come back to the US. It didn't work then, it won't work today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re6LNQU_SQM
Lindsey Graham said it best, view starting at 1:40: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJvXqtYdJqk We're going to pump them dry.
But the outcome will not change.
Date of initial posting needs corrected to 6 January 2024.
A lot of things circle back to Obama.
Thanks for posting.
Who????
We should’ve had boots on the ground to start.
That we don’t, while running propaganda that Putin is the next Hitler and we must save Ukraine but refuse to actually engage directly leads me to wonder what the whole point of Obama’s escapade is all about and I can’t help but wonder if Obama is working with Putin behind the scenes to drain the US or arms and resources.
Who is Maria Mateiciuc?
So not 30,000 dead one million! This has to end.
Her post is copy pasta. It’s been floating around for a while.
Indeed, and Gyorgy Schwartz as well.
Our CIA, State Department, DoD and DoJ are all unadulterated evil.
He was a horrible President who's only accomplishment in life was to publicly declare he was black, not half white, which apparently sent shivers up some peoples leg.
Other than that, his policies regards health care, energy, the environment, foreign affairs, national security, defense, education, literally everything the man did was wrong. Yet, he will be a “historic” President with schools and other buildings named after him...
No wonder Putin wants Joe to win.
I guess that makes her a qualified political and military observer and analyst of the largest war in Europe since World War II?
It’s the way the CIA rolls.
“The few men who remain are terrified of leaving their homes for fear of being kidnapped into conscription. Some have resorted to begging friends to break their legs to avoid service.”
Are remote IT jobs in Ukraine excluded from the draft? They are doing a lot of IT contract work with US Businesses. It is like there is no war going on. I must wonder if it only the poor uneducated doing the fighting.
Isn’t that cute...a picture post.
Whatever the reality may be - and this woman’s report is at total odds with similar reports, its better than an second Holodomor, which according to the Moscovians will happen.
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