Ukraine Takes the Fight Back to Russia
Ukraine Takes the Fight Back to Russia
And pouty Putin doesn't like it at all!
Anyone willing to step outside their current biases about this war, will recognize that one of the wisest, long-standing strategies of any war is to take the battle of the invader back onto the invader’s soil if you can. It’s called “The best defense is a good offense.” Why let the invader lay waste to your land when you can take the fight to his and let him suffer the losses of his own war. This is what Ukraine has finally done in a serious way along its eastern border. Even the obsessively pro-Russian site, Zero Hedge, notes the success of the tactic:
Ukraine Forces Reach 10km Into Russia's Kursk Region as Raid Enters 3rd Day
The Ukrainian attack on Russian territory in the Kursk region is by far the most serious cross-border assault by Kiev forces of the entire war, and it is now in its third day….
The assault kicked off early Tuesday morning and by Wednesday the Ukrainians claimed the capture of Sudzha, which lies about 8km across the Ukraine border, and has a key gas logistical hub in the same city….
Kursk Oblast's governor has declared a formal state of emergency and thousands of civilians in towns and villages near the border have been evacuated….
One question remains is: why?... given that this is basically a suicide mission. Some Ukraine war analysts have claimed it is at least in part about causing confusion in Russian military ranks and forcing the diversion of resources away from frontlines in the Donbass region, where Moscow forces have steadily advanced of late:
“It wasn’t accidental,” said war expert Kostyantyn Mashovets in a Facebook post. “It’s clearly part of one clear plan."
Mykhaylo Zhyrokhov, a military analyst, agrees. He told the BBC that Russia had been forced to redeploy some troops there from the front line in eastern Ukraine.
“If you look at official reports, there were significantly fewer Russian glide bombs dropped in the Donetsk area,” he said. “That means the aircraft which carry them are now elsewhere in Russia.”
In other words, Ukraine successfully took some of Russia’s invading forces out of their own land by forcing the Russians to reposition their forces in order to defend their own country.
The best defense is a good offense.
Only fools would fight on their own land and take the invaders’ destruction upon themselves whenever there is an opportunity to drive the invading forces and the heat of war back onto the invaders’ land. The success so far has not gone unnoticed, according to Zero Hedge:
Russian media has meanwhile taken note of a fresh European Union statement lauding the brazen Ukrainian raid on Russian territory, with European Commission spokesman Peter Stano saying the EU fully supports the actions of Ukraine's military.
Pro-Ukraine pundits are in some instances hailing the rapid destruction of Russian military hardware and oil and gas infrastructure...
Stano asserted that Ukraine has the right to defend itself, "including by striking the aggressor on its territory." This is similar to statements of the United States earlier in the conflict when discussing use of Western supplied weapons against Russian territory.
ZH quotes Ukrainian activist Illia Ponomarenko:
Imagine your reaction if someone had told you on February 24, 2022, that 895 days on, Ukraine would be raiding Russia's Kursk Oblast … annihilating Russian airbases and oil refineries, and celebrating the acquiring of Western-provided F-16s.
Poor, poor pouty Pooty!
Yesterday, we read in The Daily Doom two headlines about how Putin became incensed when Ukrainians flew over Russian land and attacked villages on Russia’s soil just like Putin had attacked them on theirs.
This article pointed out there are also strategic bargaining reasons for capturing the region:
There were a flurry of warnings today that Ukraine may intend the audacious capture or encirclement of Kursk Nuclear Power Plant [NPP] in the thrust into Russian territory.
They would then negotiate with Putin about ceding control of Zaporizhzhia NPP - held by Russia since the start of the war - in exchange.
In other words, Ukraine may offer to trade back the nuclear plant they now take from Russia in order to gain back full control of the nuclear plant Russia already took from them. Sometimes you have to gain some leverage by taking something away from your opponent. In any negotiation, you need something to trade that your opponent badly wants. Russia, of course, referred to this as “nuclear blackmail!”
Oh the irony. Putin the Invader also referred to this invasion of Russia by Ukraine as a “large scale PROVOCATION.”
Putin accuses Ukraine of ‘large-scale provocation’ at the Russian border
The fear mongers will say to Ukraine,
“Never provoke the person you are fighting. Don’t punch him in the nose, or he’ll get really, really mad, and then you may lose the fight. If he has nukes, make certain you let him win everything he demands, or he may use them! You must let the nuclear terrorists take your land without too rough of a fight, lest they follow through with their threats. Let them win, or you’ll lose far worse.”
And to Europe they will say,
“Also, never provoke a nuclear nation by arming yourself up with nukes along your border to the nearly the same extent they have already armed themselves with nukes along your border. Never mind that theirs were all placed first because, if you match up to them in nuclear capacity or any capacity, you’ll provoke a fight like this one over land they really don’t want to take for imperial reasons but are suddenly forced to take for defensive reasons. And never listen to them when they list at great length at the start of the invasion their own imperial reasons for taking the land to right the losses endured by the Soviet Union.”
So, Putin is provoked. Of course he is. How do you defend your own country and not provoke the provocateur who invaded your land?
How DARE the evil Ukrainians take the fight back to Russian soil, instead of keeping the damages all on their own invaded land! How dare they go on the offensive and provoke their invader! Now they’ll really lose! Why won’t they just cower before the nuclear dictator of Russia who rules with an iron fist by putting protestors in gulags just for using illegal words like “war” and who assassinates his political opponents to win elections?
If only the imperial US were not forcing the Ukrainians to fight to the last man standing in order to defend themselves by pushing weapons on them and PUSHING them to join NATO as quickly as possible! (Never mind the US has been actively stalling Ukraine’s application to NATO for years until they rid themselves of a good deal of corruption because Ukraine is far from saintly or trustworthy, itself.)
If only other European borderland nations would wise up and give up their nukes, recognizing Putin would never use the thousands of nukes along that same border that he keeps flashing and threatening to use. They never needed to arm up that border because Putin would certainly never invade those former Soviet-bloc nations as he has done in eastern Ukraine, Chechnya and Georgia to re-establish Russian dominance over those former Soviet satellites!
What is wrong with these slavic people in Eastern European nations that had to survive for decades under oppressive Russian rule during Russia’s Soviet empire days that makes them think Russia is so evil? Why do they let the obviously evil, imperial US force them to defend themselves to the last man standing? Why can’t they see that Putin is just righting the world’s wrongs by rebalancing borders and that he is the godly defender of the Christian faith—the Great Gray Saint? There is no way he could possibly be the great bear of biblical prophecy that will maul Israel in the Battle of Armageddon or the leader of Magog. Is there?
(All right, there goes my website as readers on the right flee in droves because I dared to speak out against Russia as a nation with a LONG imperial history that stomped all over Eastern Europe for decades and is back to stomping, subjugating, and seizing satellite lands again … but only because Putin feels provoked. It has nothing to do with rebuilding a fallen empire to Make Russia Great Again!)
I’ll have to hope a few still are. I don’t write on this topic much, but I won’t pander to build an audience either. I just call it as I see it.
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