Ilya Rogachev
A year ago, in one of our Alternative Viewpoint entries, we offered our readership an opportunity to reflect on how the conflict in Ukraine might end.
Back then, Kyiv was preparing for its infamous counter-offensive, while the West, entangled in the labyrinth of lies, was frantically pumping it with weapons.
We all know the cost of those illusions: by October 2023, in the course of the counter-offensive, Ukraine lost about 125 000 troops and 16 000 units of heavy weaponry.
As of 2024, it has become clear, even to those who observed the entire picture through the lens of Western propaganda, that Russia owns the initiative on the battlefield. Not only was the Russian defence industry not ruined by sanctions, it is steadily growing, as is our entire economy (4.6% of the gross domestic product growth in January 2024).
Kyiv is losing ground and people, and much to the dismay of Ukrainians, is about to pass law-tightening mobilisation rules. Western mainstream media rhetoric has notably changed: they arent talking about Russias strategic defeat any longer, rather about how not to let Ukraine lose (which is as delusional).
In general, the situation looks drastically different from what the West expected to see, yet close to what we were saying from the beginning: in no way shall we lose the conflict.
Western elites, with their supremacist haughtiness just listen to them underestimated Russia, as they bet all on our countrys military defeat and burnt all their bridges.
Theres a reason why the collective West is clinging to the Kyiv regime, and its not the support of Ukraines democracy and sovereignty, and not the protection of the international law that Russia has allegedly breached. As Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki put it: Failure in Ukraine could be the beginning of the end of the golden age of the West (Will failure of Ukraine in war mark the end of Wests golden age? Polands PM thinks so, Republic World, April 14, 2023).
As simple as that. The conflict is not rooted in Russias imperial ambitions or in the Russian presidents alleged warmongering, and its not, of course, unprovoked and unjustified as the Western media and politicians unanimously try to make you believe. It is about the collective Wests dominance being threatened by emerging centres of economic and political power.
With its hegemony at stake, the West wont stop supporting the monster in Kyiv.
As Ukraine kept losing on the battlefield, the West consequently crossed many of its own red lines in arms supplies Javelins, middle- and long-range artillery weapons, air defence systems Patriot, Nasams and so on, then Leopard, Challenger, Abrams tanks, F-16 aircraft (promised).
However, even some Western experts admit that no F16s, German Taurus missiles or any other wonder weapon will let Kyiv emerge victorious.
Lately, amid rising voices in the West against the continued military support of Kyiv, talks about Natos interference in the conflict were started at the behest of President Emmanuel Macron, who opened Pandoras box, refusing to rule out sending ground troops to Ukraine (Macron refuses to rule out putting troops on ground in Ukraine in call to galvanise Europe, The Guardian, February 27, 2024). He later reiterated his position, claiming France had no limits to its support for Kyiv, and urging Ukraines allies not to be cowards (Macron says France has no limits to its support for Ukraine, France24, March 7, 2024).
In an interview with Le Parisien published on March 16, he didnt exclude ground operations in Ukraine (Frances Macron says ground operations in Ukraine possible at some point, RFI, March 17, 2024).
We are well aware that Western military participates in hostilities in Ukraine as mercenaries, advisers, instructors, contractors to operate Western-supplied hardware and so on. It is no coincidence that often in the aftermath of Russian strikes on military targets in Ukraine, some Nato officers in their homelands are reported to have died in a light plane crash, in a car accident or after falling from a rock when hiking in mountains and so on. There are plenty of bizarre obituaries. Have you noticed it, folks? With no witnesses found and no probes conducted.
With that said, why would France, Poland, the Czech Republic, the Baltic states or Finland wish to send ground troops to Ukraine? Apparently, reckless politicians holding power in major Western countries are increasingly losing touch with reality.
Seems like they do want to go to war against Russia, hoping to achieve a military victory at least that way, given that their aid to Ukraine didnt work.
According to Russian presidential spokesperson Dmitrii Peskov, in the case of the West sending troops to Ukraine, we would need to talk not about the probability but about the inevitability of a direct conflict between Nato and Russia. Regardless of what Nato
