there is a crucial distinction, guys, between the left map and the right map.
russians move by big roads, hence it is just misleading to deem all the territory between those roads as russian.
it is not.
it is where the civilians fight them.
another batch of maps about #RussianWarOnUkraine, on the March 24, 2022, -- exactly 1month after the war start.
current stay of affairs and the dynamics of the situation.
this update is too good in GIF, much better, than in pictures:
March 26 vs March 25.
two maps of today, March31, 2022, which are very telling.
so,
-- russia commits inexcusable war crimes in Ukraine;
-- the West squandered 8 years to not preparing Ukraine's air defense to this war;
-- Ukraine paid a bloody price;
-- the West's and russia's inexcusability creates a cognitive dissonance (both in the West and in russia)
meaning that the Western elites are reluctant to admit that they fucked Ukraine up so catastrophically, while russians they try to deflect blame personally on putin.
not surprisingly, the West buys this idea. why?
because it helps the West with its own cognitive dissonance.
the Westerners reasoning is "who the heck would have known that putin is so fanatically unreasonable?"
well, I have pretty good answer here: we, Ukrainians! we were warning you for years that it may end up in something like this! you never listened!!!
And a few words about #TerroRussia official status.
Lord Alex Carlile, a member of @UKHouseofLords of the @UKParliament said in an interview to @TMokliak for @Guild__Hall that Western high-ranking politicians are already openly comparing Russian gov to al-Qaeda and ISIS. 1/4
Lord Carlile thinks that separate parts of the Russian State (Army, Navy, Air Forces, Putin’s political Party) should be designated separately as terrorist actors and included on banning lists held by countries such as the U.K. and the USA: ghall.com.ua/2022/03/18/bri…
2/3
This would mean that every supplier would be regarded & prosecutable as complicit in terrorism.
This should be proceeded with quickly.
It would be a confirmation, strongly supported by elected politicians and the public, of Putin’s & Russia’s pariah status,’ - Lord Carlile.
3/4
looks like China really stepped in & de facto backed Ukraine in this war for the survival of Ukrainian nation.
Lumping russia and China together is wrong and I warned about the shallow mindedness of this approach a long time ago: motychak.substack.com/p/kazakhstan-c…
Xi kicked putin out of KZ, reversed the invasion and Tokayev even appointed "anti-russian Kazakh nationalist" as one of his ministers
Ukraine's case may be another example of the Chinese influence growth.
Not quite sure that this is what America wants to see, but the U.S./NATO have had a lot of time to "deter" Muscovy and change putin's decisiveness/calculus re Ukraine's invasion -- and they squandered it.
Russian Army columns North of Kyiv decaying into immobile blobs due to the mud season, poorly maintained Chinese truck tires and shear “follow the plan” Russian incompetence.
2/ all the columns’ heads are now out of fuel and battery power and they can’t move north, south or sideways... everything behind them is stuck because of the mud, and rapidly running out of fuel and vehicle battery charge too (assuming they haven’t already).
3/ Nor can any of those columns defend themselves, because they’re too densely packed. They’re just targets waiting for the Ukrainians to destroy them.
The Jewish people know all too well the threat of being eradicated. Today, Ukraine is Israel. Ukrainians are falling victim to Russia’s evil war just as the Jews fell victim to Nazis who wanted to eradicate all Jews. -- @AndriyYermak
"The Russians can destroy us and our country, but they cannot unmake Ukraine. They do understand it – and try to blackmail Ukraine, Europe and the world with the specter of nuclear disaster as they pound powerplants with shells and bombs." - @AndriyYermak
"During Arab-Israeli war of 1948, the world rallied to Israel’s side. Jewish Americans delivered aid, weapons & PLANES to their Israeli brethren. This helped Jewish people & Israeli state survive. We implore Jewish communities across the world to come to our aid" - @AndriyYermak