Tag: kharkov
-
[Sharing] How the Strategy of Fighting to the Last Ukrainian Was Sold to the Public as Morally Righteous – Glenn Diesen
For almost three years, NATO countries have boycotted diplomatic contacts with Russia, even as hundreds of thousands of men have died on the battlefield. The decision by diplomats to reject diplomacy is morally repugnant as diplomacy could have reduced the excess of violence, prevented escalation, and even resulted in a path to peace. However, the…
-
[Sharing] Preliminary Lessons from Ukraine’s Offensive Operations, 2022–23 – Dr Jack Watling, Oleksandr V Danylyuk & Nick Reynolds, The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
The purpose of this report is to examine the causes of the failure of the Ukrainian offensive in 2023 to avoid the repetition of such errors in the future and to inform the regeneration of offensive combat power in NATO militaries The original concept of operations for the Ukrainian offensive was sound. It required 12…
-
[Sharing] Meet Centuria, Ukraine’s Western-trained neo-Nazi army – Kit Klarenberg, The Grayzone
A uniquely Ukrainian strain of Neo-Nazism is spreading throughout Europe, which openly advocates violence against minorities while seeking new recruits. With Kiev’s army collapsing and a narrative of Western betrayal gaining currency, the horror inflicted on residents of Donbas for a decade could very soon be coming to a city near you Centuria, an ultra-violent…
-
[Sharing] Russo-Ukrainian war: The Deluge – Big Serge
Z World Turns Two As the calendar barrels into another year and we tick away the days of February, notable anniversaries are marked off in sequence. It is now 2/22/2022 +2: two years since Putin’s address on the historic status of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, followed on 2/24/2022 by the commencement of the Special…
Nicolas Cinquini 