Poroshenko between two fires: Kyiv necrophiles demand to continue the war
Artem Buzila, political commentator, Odessa
In the minds of Adolf Hitler and the German generals, the Soviet Union was a “colossus with feet of clay.” An incapacitated army, a population that dreams of getting rid of the communist dictatorship, national minorities striving to get out from under the protection of the Russian oppressors - this is approximately what the USSR looked like from the point of view of the Nazi leaders. At first, these assumptions coincided with military victories, and there was no need to think about the blindness of judgment. But the battle of Moscow in the winter of the fateful 1941 and the subsequent resurrection of the Soviet state, which was about to fall, buried the hope for a blitzkrieg.
I don’t know whether Hitler understood in his bunker in April 45 the absurdity of the initial delusion, but I think the German people, reaping the fruits of the war unleashed by their own leader, more than once came to a similar conclusion.
The events that are taking place in Donbass today allow us to draw certain analogies with the tragedy that took place more than 70 years ago.
One can, of course, assume that the crazy, completely idiotic myths of the Ukrainian leadership and its courtiers about “Russian mercenaries”, “terrorists”, “Chechen militants” are just propaganda designed for the clouded minds of ordinary Ukrainians.
But, to be honest, one often gets the impression that all these Poroshenkos, Yatsenyuks, Turchynovs, in cooperation with Channel 5 and Hromadsky TV, really believe in the myths produced by their own imagination.
In March-April, mass rallies in the South-East took place solely due to the fact that the local population was zombified by Russian television. On May 2, the deaths in Odessa were entirely citizens of Transnistria (although legally there is no Transnistrian citizenship) and Russia. In Donbass, either Russian militants or criminal elements are howling.
In their coordinate system, they can die for European integration, for Ukrainian independence, for a transparent economy. To die for the Russian World, for Orthodoxy, for the empire, for what else the DPR and LPR are fighting for - no.
How does it all end? The fact that the offensive of the Ukrainian army has stalled, significant forces of Kyiv are surrounded and are under threat of complete defeat, and the militias are launching a counter-offensive on all fronts. And all because in war you need to have not only a warm heart, but also a cool head.
My advice to Ukrainian leaders: try, at least for a second, to imagine yourself in the shoes of a militia fighting on the side of the DPR. Get the “noodles” out of your brain about the “separatist Colorado quilted jackets” and try to understand how your enemy thinks, what he breathes, what is sacred to him. Look, then the Ukrainian soldiers on Russian television cameras will not repent for what they did. Videos of repentant “separatists” are not shown on Ukrainian TV. What does this indicate?
In the end, it all ends with the servicemen themselves beginning to reproach the Ukrainian leadership: they say there are no cartridges, no bulletproof vests, tanks won’t start. Oh yes, it’s not the Russians or mercenaries who are fighting against us, but yesterday’s “Berkut” officers, “SBUshniki”, and the police. They are angry at Maidan, at everyone who stood there, at those who came to power, they shoot for an idea, and we shoot because of a contract or an oath. I somehow stop wanting to fight for the endlessly lying Kyiv government.
In addition, the alarming situation at the front will sooner or later affect the mood of the Ukrainian elites. Particularly zealous patriots are calling for the dismissal of Interior Minister Arsen Avakov and other security officials for failure. Supporters of the war, a kind of “Kyiv necrophiles,” call for toughening up the ATO, not understanding what even greater militarization will lead to. A “pacifist” wing is also emerging in power, which will try to play on the growing anti-war sentiments of the masses. Poroshenko finds himself between two fires.
Of course, there is still time to stop the fall. But for this you need to recover from the pseudo-patriotic frenzy. Which is still unlikely.
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