MSM Offers Rare Glimpse Into How Bad Things Are Really Going For Ukrainian Forces by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2022-05-28 at 05:32:17 )

MSM Offers Rare Glimpse Into How Bad Things Are Really Going For Ukrainian Forces by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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While everyone is focused on the latest mass shooting in the United States, The Washington Post published what may be the first major acknowledgement from the mainstream western media that Ukraines war against Russia has not been nearly the cakewalk they have been leading the public to believe.

In a new article titled "Ukrainian volunteer fighters in the east feel abandoned," WaPo reports that contrary to the triumphant narratives the western world is being spoon fed, many troops in eastern Ukraine have been surviving on one potato per day and deserting their posts because they feel their leaders have turned their backs on them and they are being sent to certain death.

"Stuck in their trenches, the Ukrainian volunteers lived off a potato per day as Russian forces pounded them with artillery and Grad rockets on a key eastern front line. Outnumbered, untrained and clutching only light weapons, the men prayed for the barrage to end," The Washington Post reports, citing multiple named sources.

"Ukrainian leaders have projected and nurtured a public image of military invulnerability - of their volunteer and professional forces triumphantly standing up to the Russian onslaught," the article reads. "But the experience of Lapko and his group of volunteers offers a rare and more realistic portrait of the conflict and Ukraines struggle to halt the Russian advance in parts of Donbas. Ukraine, like Russia, has provided scant information about deaths, injuries or losses of military equipment. But after three months of war, this company of 120 men is down to 54 because of deaths, injuries and desertions."

Ukrainian leaders project an image of military invulnerability against #Russia. But commanders offer a more realistic portrait of the war, where outgunned volunteers describe being abandoned by their military brass and facing certain death at the front.-Sudarsan Raghavan (raghavanWaPo) May 26, 2022

WaPo reports that volunteer troops in that part of the country "quickly found themselves in the crosshairs of war, feeling abandoned by their military superiors and struggling to survive."

"We are being sent to certain death," said one volunteer. "We are not alone like this, we are many."

"Hours after The Post interviewed Lapko and Khrus, members of Ukraines military security service arrived at their hotel and detained some of their men, accusing them of desertion," WaPo reports. "The men contend that they were the ones who were deserted."

Some commentators have remarked on the fact that at long last we are seeing some realistic coverage of this war in the mainstream press.

"First major United States media I have seen to report catastrophic condition of Ukrainian forces, collapsing Ukrainian morale on the front. Seems obvious we should know the truth about a war our government is so deeply invested in," tweeted journalist Mark Ames, a frequent critic of the mass media blackout on conditions in the Ukrainian military.

"This might be the first article in a mainstream publication that punctures the Public Relations spin and secrecy of the foreign military that the United States is subsidizing. Two commanders were arrested after they spoke to the Washington Post, painting an extremely grim picture," tweeted journalist Michael Tracey.

This is indeed a major break from standard mainstream reporting on this conflict, which is normally more in line with this recent Newsweek article titled "Putins Elite Soldiers Getting Wiped Out as Russia Makes Mistakes-U.K.," sourced entirely in unevidenced claims by the British government and the military industrial complex-funded neocon think tank Institute for the Study of War.

First major United States media I have seen to report catastrophic condition of Ukrainian forces, collapsing Ukrainian morale on the front. Seems obvious we should know the truth about a war our government is so deeply invested in.-Mark Ames (MarkAmesExiled) May 26, 2022

So anyway, there it is.

Thatis the reality on the front lines of this conflict that westerners have been cheering on from their comfortable homes while calling anyone who advocates a negotiated peace settlement a Putin apologist and a Kremlin troll.

These big brave sofa warriors have been on social media demanding that Ukrainians keep fighting in this way until they have secured total victory over Russia and reclaimed Crimea and the Donbas, tweeting "Slava Ukraini" with their little blue-and-yellow flag emojis during the commercial breaks of their favorite TV show in between mouthfuls of Funyuns.

Westerners would be a lot less cavalier about demanding a foreign population keep fighting until total victory if they truly understood the horrors of war. Unfortunately there is a propaganda machine of unprecedented sophistication that has spent generations preventing them from obtaining that very understanding.

That is why they are so happy to throw endless Ukrainian lives into the gears of the imperial war machine, and that is why the WaPo article we are discussing here is receiving very little mainstream attention online as of this writing.

It will be dismissed and ignored by empire managers and their brainwashed flock with a "Hmm, you just can not hire good cannon fodder these days."

-"So you think Ukraine should just GIVE Putin the Donbas and Crimea and neutrality, to end a war Putin started??"

-No I think Ukraine should sacrifice rivers of blood serving as United States proxy cannon fodder for years to drain Moscow while you sit at home eating Pop Tarts and tweeting.-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) March 24, 2022

There is no real reckoning with exactly what is happening and exactly what these people are being called on to put themselves through.

In the childrens crayon drawing version of this war that lives in the heads of western so-called centrists, this is a team of heroic Good Guys righteously beating the tar out of hordes of Bad Guys because that is what happens in the movies and on TV.

But this is not the movies, and this is not TV.

People are dying in a United States proxy war that was deliberately provoked by the United States-centralized empire, and behind all the narratives and spin they are ultimately doing so for nothing more noble than the agenda to secure United States unipolar hegemony.

Many of the blue-and-yellow flag wavers are well-intentioned, and really do think they are advocating for Ukrainian freedom and sovereignty.

But in reality all they have been cheering for is Ukrainian subservience and enslavement to the empire, Ukrainian death, Ukrainian suffering, and the continuation of a dangerous proxy war between nuclear superpowers that threatens the life of everyone on earth.

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