Thread by @AndrewPerpetua

I have many followers who do not follow the Ukrainian war closely, so allow me to give you a brief description of the current situation: Putin is racing against time to finish this war, and he has resorted to using every weapon he has to achieve this. Namely propaganda.

Propaganda has become his primary tool to win. This propaganda is attempting to achieve several things:

1: to breed apathy in western nations
2: to highlight discontent in all nations (even russia)
3: to divide the Ukrainian people

The goal of his propaganda is to not only give up on Ukraine, but to give up on yourself and your own nation. To crush your morale, to make you feel helpless, and to push you to disengage. He wants you to succumb to tribalism and populism.

In order to understand the war in Ukraine, you must fully understand and recognize that, yes you personally, are being used as a pawn to fight this war. Whether you like it or not. It doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from, you are part of this.

Putin has been partially successful in this mission. The American congress has fallen into corrupt partisanship. Other nations in Europe have done the same. But it has not been completely successful, the majority of people still support Ukraine, as do key members of the EU.

On the ground, in Ukraine, things are difficult. There are shortages of basically everything. Ammo, vehicles, medical supplies, etc. But the relative weakness of the Russian military has limited its ability to capitalize.

Frankly speaking, the Ukrainian government and military made a large number of political and military blunders in 2023, many of which continue to have serious consequences going forward. Issues like ammunition supply, mishandling of mobilization, etc.

But, again, Russia is too weak to capitalize. They launched a large scale offensive in October which promised huge results, and has accomplished next to nothing. They captured the small city of Marinka, which they’ve been assaulting since 2014, and had already controlled over 90%

They’ve put pressure on Ukrainian supply lines and logistics near Avdiivka, they captured some treelines and fields here and there. They’ve closed in on the small village of Novomykhailivka. But, ultimately, they’ve suffered catastrophic casualties with no success

Ukraine has, and continues, to stymy the Russian military. In the face of being massively outnumbered and outgunned. Ukraine is now entering a period of attrition, where their primary goal is, and should remain, the destruction of Russian offensive potential.

And for this, Ukraine requires ammo. Really, supplying ammo is the least we can do. When we, all of us, are being directly attacked by Russia. Maybe not with bombs, but with propaganda, with derision, with hate being injected into our societies.

With the hate being injected into our societies, with the authoritarian leadership around the world coalescing into a single axis. Russia, North Korea, Iran, China. All working together to damage and topple our peaceful way of life

Suppling ammunition is the least we can do. The cheapest thing we can do. A few billion dollars worth of ammo will make an enormous difference. And it is nothing to us, as a society. We’re talking 3 or 4 dollars per tax payer, to destroy a common enemy who seeks to destroy us.