By Paul Wallis
DIGITAL JOURNAL
May 28, 2025
Ukraine has been battling Russia's invasion for more than three years - Copyright 65th Mechanized Brigade of Ukrainian Armed Forces/AFP Andriy Andriyenko
The end is coming. Not due to politics, not due to vapid, superficial headlines and infantile disinformation, not due to tantrums, but because it must.
The headlines squeak for themselves. Russia, true to form, is flailing away at Ukraine with whatever it has to hand. They might as well be throwing rocks. At themselves.
The most recent attacks are indicative of the utter futility of Russia’s position:
Some minor damage to Ukrainian cities from three major attacks.
Some deaths.
No noticeable effect of any kind, even theoretical, on the military situation.
Instant response from Europe allows Ukraine to fire into Russian territory.
Digressions including various political bleatings from moronic third parties and yet more threats of the Third World War based on the response to those attacks.
Trump is distancing himself from Putin at full speed.
So what, you may well ask. The sheer futility of the Russian actions is obvious. These attacks have been totally counterproductive.
Add to this rhapsody of regression a few other points:
The peace process hasn’t moved at all. Russia is insisting on terms that Ukraine unequivocally ruled out three years ago.
Europe is rearming. That means support for Ukraine will increase, not decrease. Another strategic disaster for Russia.
America’s input has been a total of 5 pitiful months of farcical bluster and blundering with absolutely no effect. This may well be the most unimpressive American diplomatic effort in history.
Unrealism isn’t a great way to fight a war. It’s certainly no way to win a war. For all the talk of millions of drones and new weapons, the situation on the ground simply gets worse for the Russians. There are no dramatic advances, just lots of firefights, which they usually lose.
The great Russian tank armies are extinct and their best combat forces frittered away years ago. Russian air defenses seem haphazard at best with even Moscow and beyond getting hit for years. The Russian air force is largely gone over Ukraine. The Russian navy is in hiding.
Russian logistics are still appalling. They’re now using donkeys due to lack of surviving military transport. It’s very much a matter of opinion how far the Russian army is capable of moving in any direction. It’s also a very moot point whether they can hold Crimea.
It’s time to talk about the quality of information available. Do you base your decisions on good information or babble?
Where the ghosts of Western journalism whisper sweet nothings to the current plague of incompetent transient political nobodies, the Ukrainians are producing vast amounts of “collateral” information from ground level. That’s not getting much of a mention.
The Kyiv Independent is far less ambiguous and far more objective. This is where hard information makes more sense than politicized babble.
Did you know, for example, that the Russians are building 250km power lines to the Zaphorizia nuclear reactor?
Why? Do they have no other source of power? Why not? What does it tell you about the Russian situation?
That reactor is also right on the front line. What’s the likely future of those power lines? What use can they be? Russian troops can’t have trucks and have to use donkeys and civilian vehicles. The really important thing is that someone in the rear would like to plug in their toaster? Idiocy is as idiocy does.
This war must end because total failure is where all wars end.
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