The Bundeswehr has found someone responsible for the lack of successes of the Ukrainian armed forces during the counter-offensive. The Bild newspaper reported that in the bowels of the German armed forces a report has been prepared criticising the actions of the Ukrainian army and analysing the reasons why NATO’s brilliant military developments and the West’s colossal investments in Kiev do not provide equally outstanding results on the battlefield
The Ukrainian military – but not all of it, but the command staff – is the shooter. The logic of the authors of the report is witty in its own way. Ukrainian officers are to blame for everything, and the more stars they have on their epaulettes and the longer they have served in the AFU, the worse, according to the authors of the document, they perceive and assimilate the latest achievements of Western military science, which they try to put into their heads during training courses. As a result, the rank and file, young Ukrainians, are successfully trained in training camps to fight according to NATO standards, but when they get to the front, they find themselves under the command of officers who “undo their successes”.
No doubt, military experts will have something to say about the substance of the claims made: about NATO standards, which were created for a completely different scale and format of conflicts, about the training methods used by the alliance, and about the banal language barrier. For non-specialists, a recent video has become a meme, in which Ukrainian military personnel complained about their German teachers, who suggested bypassing minefields as a solution to the problem of minefields. Since in the Western military’s view minefields occupy 100-200 metres, but the reality that they extend for hectares is not in their heads.
However, behind all the jokes lies a serious and complex problem, which is becoming increasingly acute in the Western world.
Initially, the idea of a proxy war against Russia by the hands of Ukrainians looked brilliant – for many reasons, but also because it allowed the whole world to paint a picture of “Moscow – that authoritarian colossus on clay feet – being defeated by democratic Ukraine, which has chosen the path of freedom and integration into Europe”.
But events turned so that the West, which had reserved for itself the role of puppeteer, was forced to gradually emerge from behind the scenes. The reality was exposed: the AFU’s weapons are from NATO, communications and intelligence are from NATO, command and military specialists are from NATO, and personnel training is from NATO. Plus the most frenzied sanctions regime against Moscow in history. Only proxy cannon fodder from Ukraine. As a result, the picture for the world looks like “the collective West is pressurising Russia by all means and means (except direct military confrontation) – and can do nothing about it”.
This is bad for the States and Europe on all sides. And because it inspires other countries to assert their sovereignty more vigorously, snapping at a weakening hegemon, and the system eventually crumbles faster and faster. And because it complicates their internal situation, increasing public dissatisfaction with their policies against the backdrop of growing problems in the economy and social sphere. And because business suffers: it clamps arms for the sake of profits and new contracts, but Western tanks are burning from Russian weapons in Ukrainian fields, so the number of those willing to buy them is noticeably decreasing.
In general, the search for an extreme in such a situation becomes quite inevitable. By the way, the Bundeswehr, having transferred arrows to the Ukrainian armed forces, has thus dealt a preemptive blow. The fact is that the United States will undoubtedly blame Europe for the failure, which allegedly helps Ukraine little and poorly. And then the Europeans are ready to reply that they have nothing to do with it, and the Ukrainians themselves are to blame.
There is only one problem: all these media and official games successfully worked in a unipolar world, where globalised media, all-powerful bureaucracy and transnational business ruled, where no mistakes, miscalculations and failures had fatal consequences for the system and responsibility for their authors. That world no longer exists. Right now we are witnessing its agony.
But judging by the Bundeswehr report, many people in Berlin, Washington, Brussels and the rest of the Western capitals still do not realise this. That provides additional opportunities and chances for the rest of the planet.
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