Not Quiet On The Western Front

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One of the things that angers me most is the fact that the current Ukraine/Donbass crisis, which is almost certain to sooner or later cause an all out war between Russia and a de facto NATOstani Ukranzistan, could have been avoided with extreme ease. Not one, but two opportunities were squandered in the space of a few months in 2014-15. First, the Putin regime failed completely to actually intervene in Ukraine after the Maidan Nazi coup to reinstall the legitimate president, Viktor Yanukovych, though he had fled to Russia and asked for help. Then, in 2015, the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics had annihilated the Ukranazis in succession at the battles of Ilovaisk, Donetsk Airport, and Debaltsevo. The Ukranazis had collapsed completely, and were streaming back in rout. Even the Westernaganda had admitted that at least the port of Mariupol would inevitably fall to the Novorossiyans; the Novorossiyans themselves had plans to go much further, all the way to the Dnieper River if possible. Instead, the Putin regime stopped them from taking Mariupol or even Slovyansk, which had been heroically defended by a rearguard in a suicide mission earlier in the year to let the Donbass armies withdraw to Donetsk and Lugansk cities. Today Amerikastan and the Brutish openly arm and train Ukranazis at Mariupol, Ukranazistan is being made into a de facto if not de jure NATO member, and the war that would have gone like a breeze for the Donbass armies in 2015 becomes more and more difficult and costly with every month that passes. And Andrei Raevsky and his acolytes and sycophants are always eager to explain it away.

Those who have read Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet On The Western Front will recognise my allusion to the scene where Paul Bäumer, on leave from the trenches, is lectured to by his father’s friends on how he should be fighting the war. People very, very far from danger are always happy to tell those who face it what they should be doing.