With Russia announcing the successful test firing of the Sarmatt ICBMs (ten or more warheads can be deployed on each missile), the most historic "Battle of Donbass" of the Russo-Ukrainian War began.
2022 is destined to be a turbulent year for the world.
For Both Russia and Ukraine, after this turmoil, it will bring about the beginning of the social reflection of individual consciousness under the entire economic and social trend.
The key point of this spiritual reflection may lie in the "Battle of Donbass" between Russia and Ukraine. This battle not only means that Ukraine has finally lost the last opportunity for peace negotiations, but also represents a prelude to the personal fate of the imperialist forces.
background:
Between the 8th and the 19th, on the more than 500-kilometer front from Donbass to Kharkiv, Russian rockets and artillery were deafening and attacked more than 1,260 Ukrainian military targets.
In several cities in Luhansk and Donetsk, Russian and Ukrainian armies fought fierce street battles. The Russians have continued to advance, and have now taken the small city of Kremina in Luhansk and shot down a MiG-29 fighter of the Ukrainian army.
Earlier, the Russian army issued an ultimatum, demanding that the Ukrainian troops entrenched in the Mariupol Steel Plant leave without weapons before 16:00 local time on April 19, "all those who lay down their weapons are guaranteed to live." ”
According to the Russian side, Mariupol is left with only this last stronghold. There are also more than 1,000 Ukrainian militants in the steel mill.
In addition, the latest news said that Putin asked the Russian army to cancel the plan to attack the Azov Steel Plant, it seems that there are other strategies to advance, siege but not attack, military can use the siege point to help, politically can play an offensive effect.
From the perspective of the Russian army, this time it is inevitable.
Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said in an exclusive interview with Indian media that the special military operations of the Russian military in Ukraine are beginning to enter the next stage, and now it is a critical moment.
The loss of Mariupol, if the Loss of Donbass, means that Ukraine will be completely divided between the east and the west, and Ukraine will lose 80% of its coastline and a large area of land in the east.
First, the significance of the Battle of Donbass
When it comes to the significance of the Battle of Donbass, we must first clarify the value of the Donbass region to Russia. In this game of interests, only value is the key to promoting the actions of both sides.
Geographically and strategically, the Donbass region borders the Russian Rostov Oblast to the east and the Sea of Azov to the south, which is a passage and hub connecting Russia and Ukraine, and if Russia occupies Donbass, it can speed up the settlement of all of Ukraine.
From a political perspective, Wudong has a friendly political environment. Victor Fyodorovich Yanukovych, the most pro-Russian of Ukraine's presidents, was largely supported by the Donbass voters, and Ukraine's political power was balanced.
Historically, the Wudong region was once the territory of Tsarist Russia, and although the proportion of Ukrainian residents was high, it had long been deeply "Russified". In 2020, for example, two "countries" in the Donbass region announced the abolition of Ukrainian as an official language, with Russian being the only official language.
From an economic point of view, there are many companies in eastern Ukraine that provide Russia with important raw materials and products, and if the Loss of Donbass is lost, it will also mean a huge blow to Ukraine, which is already economically depressed.
More importantly, in the sense of actual combat, the comprehensive occupation of the Wudong region will be regarded as a major strategic victory of the Russian army, which will greatly boost the morale of the Russian army and achieve greater gains in the next war. However, there is not much time left for lao Maozi, you can check out my last article leaving little time for Putin! Dry, that's right! In addition, this war for Ukraine, is an economic and political double test, if the Russian army to take Uzbekistan, will further weaken Ukraine's counterattack capabilities, to achieve the snowball effect of the war, the West will also readjust the strategy of the situation, NATO nerves are estimated to be more tense.
Background 2
The U.S. side has announced that it is working "around the clock" to deliver weapons to Ukraine at "unprecedented" speeds, something that previously took months to do, now takes only 48-72 hours.
In response to questions from reporters in New Hampshire on April 19, U.S. President Joe Biden said he planned to ship more artillery to Ukraine. It is reported that the latest $800 million of security assistance provided by the United States to Ukraine has also arrived in Europe.
The latest batch of U.S. munitions, including 11 Mi-17 helicopters, 500 Javelin anti-tank missiles, and 300 switchblade drones, is already in the process of being loaded and transported.
Together with the latest shipments, the United States has provided ukraine with more than $3 billion in the last two months alone. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Ukraine's defense budget for 2020 is also about $6 billion. At the same time, although the actor has been asking the United States and other NATO countries to provide warplanes, the United States has not yet sent fighters to Ukraine.
The reason for this is intriguing.
II. The "Flower of Evil" in a Beautiful Country
For this war, on the surface, Russia and Ukraine are wrestling in the quagmire of war, but in fact, Russia and the United States led NATO are engaged in confrontation.
For this war, although the United States did not directly participate in the hot war of armed forces, it did the greatest harm to the russian and Ukrainian peoples, and all kinds of knives and arch fires were beneficial to themselves after all.
This article will explore the consequences of world peace brought to world peace by the United States as a promoter of war in history before the dust settles.
In 1950, the United States intervened in the Korean War until 1953, when it was forced to accept the armistice and sneak home.
In 1953, the United States untamedly participated in the civil war in the Southeast Asian nation of Laos. In 1958, he sent troops to the Middle Eastern country of Lebanon during the political crisis in that country, and since then, the level of involvement in the civil wars in Laos and Vietnam has also deepened. During this period, the United States also used military means on several occasions to intervene in various conflicts in Cuba (Bay of Pigs), Uganda, Thailand, Dominica, Bolivia, Cambodia and Congo.
In 1981, the United States fought an air war with Libya.
Troops were sent into Lebanon from 1982 to 1984.
In 1983, the U.S. military invaded the American island nation of Grenada and overthrew its original regime.
In 1986, the United States launched a large-scale airstrike on Libya on the grounds that it had carried out a terrorist attack in Berlin, Germany.
From 1987 to 1988, the United States launched a series of military retaliation against Iran on the grounds that Iran had mistakenly attacked a US warship in the Iran-Iraq War.
From 1989 to 1990, the United States invaded the Central American country of Panama and took its president back to his home country and imprisoned him.
In 1991, the United States launched the Gulf War to expel Iraqi forces that had invaded Kuwait. In the following 12 years, the United States established two no-fly zones in Iraq, north and south, and its fighters patrolled the air above the no-fly zones for a long time and carried out air strikes against Iraq on many occasions.
Military operations were conducted in Somalia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Haiti from 1992 to 1994.
In 1998, the United States gradually became involved in the Kosovo crisis.
In 1999, a large-scale airstrike was launched against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, the U.S. war in Afghanistan has continued to this day, during which the United States has fought an eight-year war in Iraq.
After 2011, in the midst of chaos in the Middle East, a series of military operations were conducted in Libya, Iraq, Syria and Yemen, most of which continue to this day.
Statistics show that since the founding of the United States in 1776, the United States has been at war for more than 220 of the 240 years, participating in 53 military invasions. Just to count, the United States has waged 13 wars and spent $14.2 trillion in the past three decades.
These data are surprising, proper "war maniacs", who are uncomfortable without fighting for a while, and obviously suffer from "combat NB disease".
Even more shocking and sad is the damage caused behind the war.
These wars have brought about the disintegration of countless families and the displacement of countless people, but they have brought great benefits to a small number of capitalists, which is the bloodthirsty background of Western capital.
The subprime mortgage crisis of 2008 stemmed from the Iraq War, with nearly 5 million families losing their homes, 45 million people living on food stamps, and 46 million without health insurance.
But for those capitalists who profited, their assets not only did not decrease in the crisis, but grew by 39% in just three years.
This is the lament of the poor, the carnival of the capitalists.
But these numbers, which are only the impact on the United States, are the real victims of those in war-torn countries, most notably the refugee incident.
For example, in previous wars, according to data released by the United Nations, the war in Afghanistan alone has forced 2.7 million Afghans to flee abroad, and has also led to the internal displacement of 4 million Afghans, while the total population of Afghanistan is only 36 million.
The war in Iraq has killed more than 200,000 civilians and turned some 2.5 million into refugees. Statistics from relevant United Nations agencies show that Iraq's total population is currently 38.43 million, about 25% live below the global poverty line, and the unemployment rate is as high as 15%.
In the Russo-Ukrainian War, the Times reported that by the beginning of April, more than 30,000 Ukrainian refugees had applied for British visas, and only 500 had been approved. The United States had promised to take in 100,000 Ukrainian refugees, but in early March it had only accepted 12, but still provided hundreds of millions of dollars in weapons.
Poor innocent civilians (including the American people), hateful hegemonic capitalism!
Let's look at what the United States has gained. Clinton's Kosovo war directly interrupted the internationalization of the euro and continued to stabilize the dollar's international influence. Obama's war in the Middle East has brought Europe a steady stream of refugee problems, depriving Europe of the possibility of consolidating against the United States.
War is actually a way for some people to collect a lot of capital, sadly!
I am reminded of the description of the capitalist: "The capitalist is afraid of no profit or too little profit, just as nature is afraid of a vacuum." Once there is a proper profit, capital is bold. If there is 10% profit, capital will be guaranteed to be used everywhere; with 20% profit, capital will be active; with 50% profit, capital will take risks; for 100% profit, capital will dare to trample on all human laws; with more than 300% profit, capital will dare to commit any crime, even risk hanging. ”
When the interests of human life and capital are placed on opposite ends of the scale, these people never feel pity; when war becomes a lucrative business, where can justice and justice survive in the world?
Some people say that the United States is the capital of freedom and the capital of democracy. Perhaps, he once was.
Some people are not ashamed to say that the United States is to maintain world peace, and he is the world's policeman. Don't be so childish, he doesn't deserve it!
In my opinion, when the name of liberal democracy is turned into a spear and a sword, cutting off the happiness of the people and harming the lives of the people, then liberal democracy can no longer be called the spirit, but a naked interest.
In today's situation, capital politicians in the United States, do you dare to swear against the Constitution, dare to swear against the Bible, dare to speak to what you must call the "American spirit of democracy and freedom," and say that you really have the fundamental purpose of safeguarding world peace?
Ironically, he dared.
I really don't know where the United States puts its people? Where will peace be placed?
But at this moment, we should think carefully about where we should put ourselves in the face of the United States.
Third, the situation of the Russo-Ukrainian war in the shadow of the United States
Will this be a protracted battle, or will it be a quick battle with concentrated firepower?
The war situation is changing rapidly, and it is difficult to make an accurate prediction. Recently, however, there are some ideas that can be used as a reference.
The United States wants Ukraine to die a little slower, while Russia wants to achieve strategic goals through war as soon as possible.
A senior official of the US Department of Defense declared that the new russian operation is only a "precursor" to larger offensives in the future. "It is very likely that this will last for some time, because both sides may have dug trenches in the local area, and may be quite strong trenches," the official said. ”
At the same time, we also need to see the current situation in Russia.
May 9 is Russia's most important holiday, Victory Day, when a military parade will be held on Red Square.
It is also a day of heaven, place, man, and divine help.
If Russia can win this war, russia's individual and national spirit will continue to rise. It also means that the European countries that link the umbilical cord to Ukraine will be hit hard by the economic level, and the political, food, and energy crises derived from the economic crisis will also erupt everywhere.
In the contemporary era of economic globalization, we must also make some thinking and preparation measures ourselves.
On the contrary, if Russia fails, the overshadowed Red Square military parade may hurt Putin's civilian trust, thus affecting the overall layout of Russia's development in the future, and past mistakes will be amplified by the West. Of course, Ukraine and the Western countries, which have been caught up in the quagmire of war, will certainly be affected.
From the overall direction of the war, the war at this time is still favorable to the Russian army, and his heavy equipment does have the advantage, but the breakdown of the peace talks means that the two sides still have the strength to fight.
At the same time, from the perspective of Ukraine, with the support of Western countries, the actor feels that his situation is not exhausted, and he still has the ability to continue to fight with Russia, but the initiative is still biased towards Russia.
The damage of war has been inflicted and continues to develop, and interests are still being divided. But for us at present, in fact, in addition to the analysis of the trend of war, it is more important to think about what we should prepare ourselves.
In the following article, the author will continue to analyze with the small partners.
"In war,
The tears of the people are sprinkled on the land.
The tears of the son spilled into the shadows of the distant mother's arms.
The father's tears spilled into the adult dreams of the young children behind him.
The husband's tears spilled over his wife's midnight sobs.
But where should the tears of the kings be sprinkled? ”