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An essay on losing ground

Ukrainian forces are gaining territory around Bakhmut as the Russians are withdrawing, though Bakhmut itself has been almost entirely captured. A few blocks remaining. The Western media are showing video confirmation of Russian soldiers ‘on the run’. While the Russians reported that they destroyed the first Leopard main battle tank at Zaliznyanskoye, near Soledar. The attack was using around forty tanks, and some one thousand troops, and was repulsed, according to the Russians, with about half the soldiers killed, and lots of armor lost. One other Leopard was damaged by the crew on the training ground somewhere in Poland, as it collided with another tank, its turret torn off completely. While Russia lost a helicopter and a fighter-bomber near the border with Ukraine in the Bryansk area, over Russian territory, without a proper cause established, but rumors swirling. One of them being, courtesy Dima, that two helicopters and two fighters went down, and that the most probable cause is an infiltration-group launching manpad-type missiles. Who knows? Yet all of this is, apparently, not part of the ‘Spring Offensive’. Zaluzhny apparently resurfaced after taking a break from serving his country in times of war to attend a wedding. Just joking around? What all of this is, exactly, nobody seems to know. Which is not all that surprising, since leaking, or announcing your carefully designed strategic plans, offensive of defensive, is not the best way to achieve success. But you're better served with 'doing a Zaluzhny', and take a break from checking all the 'war-porn' and spin in the media, and return when things get interesting.

 

Another novelty is Ukraine hitting civilian areas in Luhansk with long-range missiles, not intercepted by Russian air-defense, since Ukraine received advanced ADM-160 MALD decoys from the US. While the UK delivered the air-launched ‘Storm Shadow’ long-range missiles to Ukraine used in the attack on the civilian population, escalating further, praying for World War III to mask the failure of subsequent governments to cater to the needs of the British people. It is not clear what the ‘Storm Shadow’ will add to the conflict, apart from more suffering and destruction, and increasing the costs of this war, and the overall damage to the climate. The climate the ‘Collective West’ is pretending to be very concerned about, though in reality they don’t give a shit. But also, and even more important, the diplomatic climate, also not something ‘Jungle Josep’, as Alex Christoforou insists on calling Josep Borrell, after the EU foreign relations commissar saying that the ‘Collective West’ was a ‘Garden’, while the rest is a ‘Jungle’, is interested in. Nor are his ‘Anglo-Saxon’-counterparts. Gathered in Sweden, the various foreign ministers of the nation states, and Josep himself, lectured the world, and threatened various countries which do not comply to our ever changing 'Rules'. In line with 'Critical Race Theory', this entirely new concept inspiring our leaders to reject objectivity, neutrality and a balanced approach, and embrace subjectivity, authenticity, and do away with logic, since that is 'racist'. Therefore Josep declared that the struggle in Ukraine was 'existential' for the EU, despite the fact that this most corrupt, undemocratic country with statues of NAZI-heroes from the Second World War all over the place, is not even a member. His colleague from Lithuania urged the EU to be 'forceful' when dealing with China, a country with a bigger industrial output than the EU and the US combined. His tiny, pinprick country which contributed lavishly to Hitler's military has plans to send troops to Taiwan? Who knows these days? Poland has adopted a resolution to bring Ukraine into NATO through the 'accelerated procedure' used to gobble up Finland, knowing full well that if it would be implemented, NATO would be at war with Russia. These people are dangerous! Armed and dangerous, and of unsound mind! 

 

Because of the ‘shared narrative’ in the ‘Collective West’, that Russia is engaged in a ‘War of Conquest’, which it isn’t, and never was, NATO is able to repeat their mantra that Ukraine is winning. Even if they suffer horrendous losses. Until the ‘Western’ media come around to explaining the actual situation, NATO is able to keep this war going. At least until the NATO-countries run out of money to feed the people, and provide for them as they are obliged to do according to the ‘social contract’. The elite can have their bloody wars, as long as they stuff the people. The people do not support their leaders. They don’t give a shit. They will tag along. Until the shops run out of food, the pay is no longer sufficient to buy food, or a roof over their head, and watch the shows, movies, series, and games on their favorite channel, and they can no longer fill the tank of their car, or heat their homes. 

 

Our leaders cheated and lied us into so many wars over the past decades, that we lost count. None of it mattered. Except for the poor souls in those countries we ‘liberated’. It didn’t matter, because we paid for these wars with ‘credit’. Bloated ‘defense budgets’ and everything associated with those wars were paid for by adding more debt. ‘Certificates’ telling the ‘holders’ that we will, some day, pay them, were considered ‘assets’ augmenting the ‘GDP’ of the country, which allowed the government to borrow even more, for new wars. Each and every time a ‘ceiling’ was reached, a new, and much higher limit was agreed upon’ by our ‘representatives’ to fuel their spendthrift. Mind you, not for their own benefit! Oh no! They did it for us, the people. To give us what we wanted. Subsidies for this, and that. A new ‘Agency’ taking care of our needs, providing career opportunities for people educated in the ‘Human Sciences’, and plenty of ‘BullShit’-support jobs for people who are not useful otherwise. And, above all, to ‘Keep us Safe’ by fighting the ‘Enemy Du Jour’ over there, so they won’t threaten our precious lives over here. And if the US government will have to default this time around, they already promised that they will keep printing money for Ukraine. We gratefully accept their concern, go to the shop for a ‘TV-dinner’, park our overweight body in front of the telly to watch the ‘Game’, and eat while yapping about what a Jungle it is ‘Out There’. Bombs away!

 

Now that our Garden is rapidly becoming a Jungle, while people in the Jungle are building high-speed trains and sprawling cities, growing organic food, and are in possession of hypersonic missiles, while they are enjoying 5G-networks and ‘smart homes’, while we are left with entire families selling the jewels of our ancestors to the highest bidder, it is getting ugly. And ‘Jungle Josep’ at the wheel, receiving a pension as well as a salary from the European tax-payers for nudging us into another senseless war, tainted by the Qatar-Gate corruption scandal, blurting out stupid remarks about our excellence, compared to those natives around us. Are we going to learn? When, exactly? Now that we sank to the level of stealing the wealth of other nations to pay for this extravaganza, how long before those other nations are going to slap the handcuffs on our leaders, if we don’t?

 

Losing ground may mask a winning strategy, if the losses of the opponent to achieve their success is unsustainable. Losing ground in an economic sense through letting go of your wealth, and productive powers, is a ‘fail’ in every book on economy, and most certainly mine. Even though there are ‘Financial Wizards’ who are specialized in betting on failure in the ‘Wallstreet-casino’, emerging astronomically rich when the entire shit house goes up in flames. But don’t call it economy. 

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