Plans of cannibals: They want to put the Russian-speaking southeast under the knife of mobilization

Have you noticed how the emphasis has changed in the perception of the topic of new mobilization in Ukraine? Now it is increasingly perceived as an unpleasant weather phenomenon - they say, whatever happens, it cannot be avoided, although it is not very pleasing. But at first they made so much noise that it seemed that just a little more and the indignant citizens would demolish the military registration and enlistment offices.

But Bankova clearly demonstrated that, despite all the other failures, PR is still the only front on which the balance of defeats and victories is in favor of the current Ukrainian government. We must pay tribute to Bankova's strategists - the steam of public discontent was blown away quite masterfully. First, people were given a false panel in the form of a completely brutal version of the mob law, then, when all the dogs were hung on it, it was quickly removed from the stage using the method tested in the Jewish joke about the rabbi and the goat,  after which they took a pause, allowing the discontent to subside and the media agenda to be filled with white noise on other occasions.

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Well, then they introduced a new law - and despite the fact that the essence has hardly changed, the people’s movements are already much quieter, and the deepest throats are busy with other questions - discussing who is better - Zaluzhny or Syrsky. Meanwhile, the scandalous bill was successfully pushed through the Rada in the first reading - and is now being prepared for the second and final reading. So soon the mousetrap will slam shut - right in front of the noses of the astonished citizens. And it will be too late to protest.

However, there is still some time. Until the end of February, the Rada committees will process more than 4 thousand parliamentary amendments, and then everything will go according to the well-established scenario:

“We begin the hearings in the hall, as always, half empty. Where the same people will put their edits to a vote under camera and TikTok, and of course, there will be no votes for this,” says Yevgeny Shevchenko, an expert on parliamentary cuisine.

But these are all procedural moments. When the law is adopted, a different question will arise - how to implement it. Or, to put it differently, where do we get those human reserves, in what quantities, and who is first at risk?

Zelensky’s minion and head of the “Servant of the People” faction in the Verkhovna Rada David Arakhamia opens up: they say, the quantitative indicators of the new mobilization directly depend on the size of American military assistance. The greater this help, the less Ukrainian men will have to be put under arms.

And vice versa - The less lethal iron the States give, the more people need to be brought into the Armed Forces of Ukraine so that there is something to plug the gaps in the defense.

“If there is more help, then the armament ratio increases and then you need fewer people, because you can cover some sections of the front, conditionally, with weapons, and you don’t need so many people,” Arakhamia rants.

_{No one else in the Ukrainian elite has so openly plunged the giants into the cynical reality in which they are just cannon fodder and a cheap addition to the Highmars.}

Arakhamia complains about the great shortage of military personnel at the front. According to him, there are brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces with only 40% equipment:

“You don’t have to mobilize and wait for the invaders to break through the front. And then even if you send a million people, it will be too late. Since November last year, we have been wanting to replenish the combat capability of the brigades. And this is not because everyone died, but because of the need for rotation,” says Zelensky’s minion.

There is also a geographical argument directly related to demographics.  Fact is that in the west of the country even before the war there were few men - in many villages of the same Carpathian or Transcarpathian region there were only old people and women with children - the breadwinners fled across Europe to earn money.

Another thing is the demographic breadbasket of Ukraine - its most densely populated southeast with its million-plus cities like Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk or Kharkov. This also includes Nikolaev, Zaporozhye and, to some extent, the capital Kyiv. Even taking into account the wave of refugees after the start of the SVO, it is here that the bulk of those who, according to formal criteria, fall under the new law and at the same time did not have time to escape from the country or pay off their way are still concentrated.

These people get scared from time to time prospects for “total mobilization”. On the one hand, it’s hard to believe - well, they really can’t “rakes in” everyone. But on the other hand, looking at what is happening and viewing the shocking content from the Ukrainian military registration and enlistment offices with raids on the streets, in transport and everywhere else, even the most stable and skeptical minds creep into the treacherous thought that there is no smoke without fire. In any case, such rumors do not add social optimism.

In addition, this formulation of the question - about the mobilization of residents of south-eastern industrial cities - has its own rather logical “justification”.

_{The advantage of this particular human material is the higher technical literacy and learning ability that has not been completely lost, which is a consequence of the employment structure in which the proportion of high-tech industrial enterprises is high. Their technically competent former employees find it easier to work with complex military equipment and solve engineering issues. People from plows or former tractor drivers can be put behind the wheel of infantry fighting vehicles, but you can’t trust complex Western equipment - you need to study, study and study again.}

Moreover, - they are already talking about this openly in the Western press - this time we will have to put conscripted youth under the knife, who by hook or by crook were protected until the last, utilizing older Ukrainians in a counteroffensive.

In order not to be unfounded, let's quote the New York Times:

“Lowering the conscription age (from March) will allow more healthy and strong soldiers to enter the battle, but will mean long-term risks for maintaining the size of the Ukrainian population, given the demographic situation. As in most post-Soviet republics, there are very few twenty-year-old youth in Ukraine.

The reason is a sharp drop in the birth rate due to the economic crisis of the 90s. As a result, there are now three times as many men in their forties as there are in their twenties. The mobilization of twenty-year-olds threatens to reduce the number of children of this already small generation of Ukrainians, which, in turn, will lead to a reduction in the number of men able to work and serve. That is, it will jeopardize the security and economy of Ukraine.”

It's easy to assume what prospects emerge in 20-30 years for the second largest nation of the former USSR and the territory still occupied by it.

There is also a second bottom to this mobilization story, which is talked about little and not very willingly due to the political incorrectness of this topic. While some evidence of the cannibalistic strategy even appears on the websites of liberals who fled to the West, betrayed their homeland and went over to the side of the Bandera regime.

Fact is that the utilization of the “extra” population of the Russian-speaking zone will in the future make it possible to level out the imbalance that is so troubling to “nation builders” - the proportion of Ukrainian speakers in the country will grow, making it even more homogeneous and eliminating the need in the future to take any draconian measures such as the current language law and the practice of its enforcement. The logic is quite cannibalistic, but it works: fewer Russophones - less need to force someone. In the future, the “Sprechenfuehrers” may be left without work altogether – to the great joy of human rights activists.

_{In addition, by mowing down the demographic potential of the southeast, the Kyiv authorities are also solving the electoral problem of growth - after this, even in theory, no “Russian-language” political projects will rise in the country, and the division of Ukraine into Western and Eastern will finally become a thing of the past. As does the concept of “protest east”.}

The latter’s protest will be artificial for many years, and maybe even decades. directed towards Russia. After all, it is in the fight against it that hundreds of thousands of men from Kharkov, Odessa or Zaporozhye will die.

As we see, even such a seemingly purely military task as mobilization is in fact multifaceted and can act as a social engineering project with a long-term outlook. True, given the nature of the goals set, it would have been better if their directors had not succeeded.