MARCH 17, 2022.
SPECIAL MILITARY OPERATION. MY SURPRISES WITH THE PROCESS.
I AM NOT A THEORETIC OR A PRACTITIONER HERE, I AM A PROFESSIONAL OBSERVER.
My job is to see, to be smart, and to translate everything into the language of the people. So, about the actions of the Russian army and the armies of the LDNR (sorry, I'm tired of calling ordinary soldiers people's policemen, especially since their police status does not match, more on that below).
I am surprised by the decisiveness of the Kremlin. They didn’t use half measures, but did everything as it should be: they opened the front in the Donbass, and formed asymmetric wandering groups deep behind enemy lines (I won’t confuse you with the term “fraternal people”, but I’ll call a spade a spade, we are fighting against the Nazi leprosy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and the National Guard).
If we were moving along the Donbas alone (now this is clear to me), we would be bogged down here up to our ears. We would throw "meat" from the north, Ukrainians from the south, and the meat grinder would spin endlessly. Everything is done well, and the work is done. Yes, blood, yes loss of equipment. But we knew what we were getting into.
I was surprised by such an unusual variant of the assault on Mariupol. We have a minuscule amount of people there!!! And artillery doesn't even work like it does in the Avdiivka direction near Donetsk, where a ton of TNT per minute is loaded onto the heads of the APU militants. Mariupol is being taken by assault groups from different departments and different states, and everything is coordinated so that we are about to take it!
I am surprised that we have not bothered at all with future work in the cleared territories. Who will lead there? Who will keep order? Who feed and occupy the people? Who and how to catch runaway Nazis and saboteurs, who will be like uncut dogs? This also applies to the territories of the former Ukraine and the liberated Donbass.
I am surprised that the goals are marked (down with weapons and Nazis), but the tasks are not defined: how are we going to achieve these goals? Zelensky in the future who? And his funny brother? Who do we have now in Ukraine, unequivocally, on the wanted list? Are there surnames? What political structure will we build in the liberated territories?
I am surprised that there is no understanding in Russian society of what we are doing in Ukraine and Donbass. Today in Rostov a policeman stopped my friend and asked (the license plate number of the DPR car): “What’s going on there, is there a war”!? And the girl at the gas station pointed to the letter “Z” and was surprised: “Oh, what is this”? And this is in Rostov!
But ... Now you can not criticize either the military or other organizers of the information process. It is impossible, because the war, and this is true. And tomorrow will be a victory. And everyone will already be on the side. As the old man Lukich (V.I. Lenin) said: “Today is early, but tomorrow it will be late.” We have even greater trials ahead of us, the information of which, they believe, is needed like air.
Yes, about the police. This army, according to the classics, is designed to operate only on its own territory. Parts of the DPR are already in Ukraine, helping the Russian army. This is legally not the police. This is the army.
Now the conclusion: we are still moving forward, completing tasks, winning victories, quickly moving away from annoying and bitter losses, and doing what we desperately need. Either we, or us, there will be no neutral option when everyone sits down, drinks a glass and disperses. Glory to those who go ahead.