Friday 14th of February 2025

the war in yuckraine is profitable to america's military industrial complex......

Washington is pressuring Zelensky to lower the draft age from 25 to 18. Meanwhile, Western media is reporting that Ukrainian recruits have begun deserting forces training in European NATO countries hundreds at a time. Retired Russian Army colonel and renowned military observer Viktor Litovkin explains how these events are connected.

 

Just Business: US MIC Wants Ukrainian Bloodbath to Continue Even If It Means Drafting 18-Year-Olds

 

“The war in Ukraine is profitable to the United States economically, politically and so on. That’s why they’re interested in this war continuing,” Litovkin told Sputnik, commenting the Biden administration’s steady pressure on Kiev to reduce the draft age to 18.

Besides the cash the US military-industrial complex can expect from new contracts from its Eastern European NATO allies from the “recycling” their Warsaw Pact-era Soviet equipment, and the replenishment of Pentagon warehouses after sending old stocks off to Kiev, hawks in Washington are able to pursue their long-term obsession with “weakening Russia,” Litovkin explained.

The gruesome “business” in Ukraine is so profitable that Litovkin doesn’t expect it to stop once Donald Trump is in charge. After all, he recalled, it was Trump who first sent lethal weapons to the country in 2019. 

“I’m more than certain that Trump will not rush to stop this ‘business’. He will likely simply dump part of it onto Europe, while continuing the rest because it’s profitable for the US. Trump has always been on the side of the US military-industrial complex,” Litovkin said.

As for plans to draft 18-year-olds, how else “how can this conflict continue, if a million Ukrainian servicemen have already been knocked out, killed, wounded, maimed and so on," with other draft-age men fleeing to Europe, Russia, etc., the observer asked.

"There are about 30,000 mercenaries fighting in Ukraine. All the complex military equipment is controlled by mercenaries, US, Polish and German specialists, from HIMARS to Patriots and others…But someone has to man the front lines, someone has to man the trenches” if the reserve of 25-year-olds and up - the current draft age, is exhausted, the retired soldier said.

Unfortunately, Litovkin doesn’t expect Ukraine’s population to rise up and overthrow the government sending its sons to their deaths.

“Power in Ukraine is in the hands of the Banderites, who keep the people who are left in fear…Maybe individuals and groups can declare a protest, but they will be immediately thrown in jail and the men sent to the front,” he said.

 

Fighting Spirit Wins Wars

Ukrainian and US business media reported this week that Ukraine's brand new, elite NATO-trained 155th Mechanized Brigade "disintegrated" before reaching the frontlines, with over 1,700 of its 5,800 members said to have fled during training in France and Poland, before deployment in the ongoing bloody battles in the Donbass.

The mass desertion signals a critical lack of "fighting spirit," Litovkin believes.

“Victory in every war is determined by the fighting spirit of those masses who shed blood on the battlefield,” Litovkin explained, suggesting the incident shows that “coercion,” not fighting spirit, are the main remaining motivator in the Ukrainian Army, hence the regular mass desertions, mass surrenders, etc.

“If it weren’t for the Banderites standing behind them, threatening to shoot them in the back or executing those who surrender or desert, the front line would have disappeared a long time ago,” the observer believes.

The shortfalls of the NATO equipment sent to the front along with the brigade’s troops likely didn’t help matters, Litovkin said, pointing out that the CAESAR wheeled self-propelled howitzer is underpowered compared to Russian systems and unsuitable for use in Ukraine during the muddy seasons, and that the Leopard 2 tanks the brigade was equipped with weigh 10-20 tons more than Russian ones, meaning inferior maneuverability characteristics.

Ultimately, the brigade’s training was just a bureaucratic exercise, Litovkin said, with the money doled out and spent, and the French side especially not particularly concerned about the unit’s fate.

 

https://sputnikglobe.com/20250104/just-business-us-mic-wants-ukrainian-bloodbath-to-continue-even-if-it-means-drafting-18-year-olds-1121353761.html

 

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         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

 

HYPOCRISY ISN’T ONE OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS SINS.

HENCE ITS POPULARITY IN THE ABRAHAMIC TRADITIONS…

 

 

PLEASE DO NOT BLAME RUSSIA IF WW3 STARTS. BLAME AMERICA.

 

GUSNOTE: IN THE TOON AT TOP, I HAVE USED THE BANDERIST FLAG OF YUCKRAINE...

useless keepers....

German opposition MP Roderich Kiesewetter has suggested that Berlin will have no choice but to deploy its military to Ukraine in a peacekeeping capacity once a ceasefire has taken hold. The lawmaker from the opposition Christian Democratic Union (CDU) argued that as an economic heavyweight, Germany should take on more responsibility for Europe’s security.   

On Friday, the Polish outlet Rzeczpospolita quoted Kiesewetter as saying that Berlin has the obligation to intervene “at the right time with well-equipped troops.” The CDU defense spokesman argued that ruling out such a scenario would be reckless and backed German peacekeepers operating within a joint EU-NATO framework, according to the newspaper.   

Meanwhile, last month, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius made it clear that “Ukraine and Russia have to agree on a mandate they would accept and on the participants of such a mandate.”   

The official stated that “if there is a ceasefire, then, of course, the Western community, NATO partners, possibly the United Nations, and the EU will have to discuss how such a peace, such a ceasefire, can be secured,” Pistorius said.   

Also in December, however, US state-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, citing anonymous sources, reported that the prospect of such an EU/NATO deployment was slim. The outlet quoted an unnamed EU diplomat as explaining that “first, the Russians will not accept it; second, it will be hard to sell this to the European population.” Another anonymous diplomat confirmed to the media outlet that there was little appetite for such a mission among member states.

Earlier last year, Politico claimed that French President Emmanuel Macron and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk could discuss the establishment of a peacekeeping force. However, Tusk later told journalists that Poland had no plans for such action.   

Reporting on an EU summit devoted to the Ukraine conflict last month, the Financial Times quoted German Chancellor Olaf Scholz as ruling out any discussion of a troop deployment to Ukraine at this point for fear of further escalating the hostilities.   

Russia has repeatedly warned that it would consider Western soldiers in Ukraine to be legitimate targets.   

Commenting on such media reports in December, the Kremlin reiterated that it was too early to discuss any peacekeeping missions, as direct peace talks between Moscow and Kiev had yet to begin.

https://www.rt.com/news/610442-german-mp-wants-troops-ukraine/

 

MAKE A DEAL PRONTO BEFORE THE SHIT HITS THE FAN:

 

 

NO NATO IN "UKRAINE" (WHAT'S LEFT OF IT)

THE DONBASS REPUBLICS ARE NOW BACK IN THE RUSSIAN FOLD — AS THEY USED TO BE PRIOR 1922. THE RUSSIANS WON'T ABANDON THESE AGAIN.

THESE WILL ALSO INCLUDE ODESSA, KHERSON AND KHARKIV.....

CRIMEA IS RUSSIAN — AS IT USED TO BE PRIOR 1954

TRANSNISTRIA WILL BE PART OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION.

A MEMORANDUM OF NON-AGGRESSION BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE USA.

 

EASY.

 

THE WEST KNOWS IT.

 

READ FROM TOP.

 

YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

 

HYPOCRISY ISN’T ONE OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS SINS.

HENCE ITS POPULARITY IN THE ABRAHAMIC TRADITIONS…

 

 

PLEASE DO NOT BLAME RUSSIA IF WW3 STARTS. BLAME AMERICA.

no chance of victory....

Some of those abandoning the frontline say the longer the war goes on, ‘the more people like me there will be’

By  in Kyiv 

hen Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine three years ago, Viktor* was ready to die for his country. He volunteered to defend Kyiv as enemy tanks appeared and joined Ukraine’s armed forces. In the spring of 2023 he was fighting in the village of Tonenke, near the eastern city of Avdiivka. “When I arrived I was super-motivated. If necessary I would give my life,” he recalled.

Gradually, however, he became disillusioned. The battle was furious. “The Russians would smash our positions to the ground,” he said. Senior Ukrainian commanders gave unrealistic orders. Then, while he was defending a ruined building, a panel fell on his shoulder. After receiving injections to reduce the pain, he was told to return to the front. “I realised I’m nobody. Just a number,” he said.

hen Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine three years ago, Viktor* was ready to die for his country. He volunteered to defend Kyiv as enemy tanks appeared and joined Ukraine’s armed forces. In the spring of 2023 he was fighting in the village of Tonenke, near the eastern city of Avdiivka. “When I arrived I was super-motivated. If necessary I would give my life,” he recalled.

Gradually, however, he became disillusioned. The battle was furious. “The Russians would smash our positions to the ground,” he said. Senior Ukrainian commanders gave unrealistic orders. Then, while he was defending a ruined building, a panel fell on his shoulder. After receiving injections to reduce the pain, he was told to return to the front. “I realised I’m nobody. Just a number,” he said.

The issue of desertion has made headlines in Ukraine. Last week the government launched an investigation into the 155th Mechanised Brigade. Fifty-six soldiers disappeared while training in France. Hundreds of others are said to be missing. The unit’s commander, Dmytro Riumshyn, was arrested. He faces 10 years in jail for failing to carry out his official duties and to report unauthorised absences.

After three years of war, Ukraine is desperately short of soldiers, especially infantry. This has made it easier for Russia’s army to advance in the east. There are structural issues too. New brigades have been built from scratch. They performed poorly. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, recently ordered a change in policy, with inexperienced recruits integrated into existing battalions.

Some who desert keep a low profile. Others live and work openly. Viktor said he went back to his brigade in August 2023 but was told he was not wanted. Once a trained sniper, he now runs a garage in western Ukraine, where he repairs military vehicles for free. Had he killed Russians? “Many,” he replied. “Everybody is tired. The mood has changed. People used to hug soldiers in the streets. Now they worry about being conscripted.”

Viktor added there was a severe lack of frontline manpower. In February 2023 he was given a 10-day break – only to be recalled a day after he got home, as Avdiivka came under attack. Two people from his company had been killed, he said. The others were wounded. “One guy lost an arm. Another a leg. Some had bullet wounds. Nobody is completely OK. Even so, we managed to achieve some tasks,” he said.

Another deserter, Oleksii*, said he took part in Ukrainian offensives in the southern Mykolaiv and Kherson regions. He described one battle as chaotic, with bullets flying, mortars landing in a forest clearing, and insufficient artillery support. During the winter of 2022 he had a row with a new commander, applied unsuccessfully for a transfer, and got hurt. “I reached boiling point. So I decided to go where nobody can find me,” he said.

Ever since, Oleksii has been in hiding. “We will see what happens. Maybe I get caught and sent to the frontline,” he said. He added he would take up arms again if the Russians came into his town, or if the Ukrainian army became a genuinely reformed Nato style force, with better generals. Asked if he was happy, he answered: “I’m alive. The longer the war goes on the more people like me there will be.”

Olha Reshetylova, Ukraine’s commissioner for protecting service members’ rights, said she understood why some people went awol. “Let’s be honest. The problem is big. It’s natural in a situation where you’ve had three years of major war. People are exhausted. They want to see their families. Their children are growing up without them. Relationships get broken. Wives and husbands can’t wait for ever. They feel alone.”

She said many service members ended up with fragile mental health. A small conflict with a senior officer could “trigger” them to flee their unit, she said. There were injuries too. “It’s a complex and complicated problem. We can’t solve this with criminal punishment. If it comes to a choice between being killed and going to prison, of course at that moment you will go with the second option.”

Reshetylova is a well-known human rights activist. She took up her newly created post in January at the request of Zelenskyy. Her role is to balance the needs of the state with fairness to individuals. “We have this post-Soviet heritage where a soldier is slave to his commander. But Ukraine’s army is transforming. We are trying to change it, to make it more modern and human-orientated,” she said, in an interview in Kyiv.

Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, has been debating how to bring in more recruits. Deserters face between 12 and 15 years in jail. Last summer, deputies abolished criminal penalties for those who voluntarily return to their old battalions, with full benefits restored. A bill has also been passed that allows service members to transfer to different units – getting round lingering conflicts between lower and higher ranks.

Reshetylova said transfers were unpopular with commanders, who blocked them because they were short of troops. The government is working on a solution, she said, allowing applications to be made via the ministry of defence’s Army+ app. Meanwhile, changes are being drafted to attract 18- to 25-year-olds, who are currently exempt from mobilisation. They include training guarantees and measures to ensure dialogue between soldiers and commanders.

Andrii Hrebeniuk, the sergeant major of an infantry battalion, fighting in the Donetsk oblast town of Velyka Novosilka, said soldiers went awol “pretty frequently”. “Some return. Some don’t,” he said. “It’s about morale more than injury. They need a psychological reset. They go and see their families and reappear after a couple of months.” Did he understand them? “I don’t sympathise and I don’t condemn,” he replied.

Hrebeniuk’s mechanised brigade, the 110th, last week took the unusual step of saying it was critically short of personnel. It had enough drones and artillery, but no infantry, at a time of constant Russian attacks. “We need to break the stereotype that if you join up you will be dead in five minutes,” Hrebeniuk said. He added: “Simple things keep you alive, like digging in, cleaning your weapons, and paying attention during first aid training.”

Reshetylova said there were hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers staying in their positions and “not going anywhere”. The recruitment crisis could be solved, she added, if Ukraine’s allies sent their own troops. If they did not, and Kyiv fell, Vladimir Putin would keep going. She said: “As I see it, it is Europe’s armies that are absent without leave. They don’t understand – or don’t want to understand – that this is their war too.”

*Names have been changed

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/31/tired-mood-changed-ukrainian-army-desertion-crisis

 

THE MASTER CRAFTSMAN OF JOURNALISTIC BULLSHIT, Luke Harding, USES REAL EVENTS TO PROMOTE MORE WAR AND A FULL-ON NATO BIFFO WITH BOOTS ON THE GROUND — SOMETHING THAT WOULD LEAD TO WW3. THE UKRAINIAN SOLDIERS HAVE NO CHANCE OF VICTORY, BUT A 50/50 CHANCE OF DYING FOR THE SAME RESULT: THE (INEVITABLE) DEFEAT OF THE NAZI KIEV REGIME... 

AS WELL, PUTIN DOES NOT WANT TO TAKE KIEV. HE DOES NOT WANT TO HAVE TO RULE OVER A BUNCH OF TERRORISTS GALICIANS. HIS CLEAR PRESENT GOALS HAVE BEEN SET ONCE THE AMERICANS (THE WEST) REJECTED HIS FAIR BUT FIRM OFFER OF 2021. THESE GOALS ARE MORE OR LESS ENUMERATED BY GUS SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THIS AMERICAN-PROVOKED RUSSIAN MILITARY INTERVENTION:

 

MAKE A DEAL PRONTO BEFORE THE SHIT HITS THE FAN:

NO NATO IN "UKRAINE" (WHAT'S LEFT OF IT)

THE DONBASS REPUBLICS ARE NOW BACK IN THE RUSSIAN FOLD — AS THEY USED TO BE PRIOR 1922. THE RUSSIANS WON'T ABANDON THESE AGAIN.

THESE WILL ALSO INCLUDE ODESSA, KHERSON AND KHARKIV.....

CRIMEA IS RUSSIAN — AS IT USED TO BE PRIOR 1954

TRANSNISTRIA WILL BE PART OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION.

A MEMORANDUM OF NON-AGGRESSION BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE USA.

 

EASY.

 

THE WEST KNOWS IT.

 

READ FROM TOP.

 

YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

 

HYPOCRISY ISN’T ONE OF THE SINS OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.

HENCE ITS POPULARITY IN THE ABRAHAMIC TRADITIONS…