Ukraine Crushes Three Great Myths About Russia

As with every single thing written by an outside observer, this article must be viewed with great skepticism. Like the stories of brave Ukrainian soldiers preferring to die rather than surrender on Snake Island (they surrendered and are currently all alive and prisoners of the Russian Army), the tale of the brave and skillful pilot dubbed "Ghost of Kyiv" (total fictitious propaganda) and so many photographs posted to illustrate the bravery and success of Ukranian leaders and fighters, so many of which are taken from past actions or even video games, nothing that emanates out of the fog of war hovering over Ukraine can be accepted at face value. Every opinion about the reasons for the incursion, the strategy or tactics adopted, the territory taken or casualty figures is simply a "Just So Story," posted by someone with an axe to grind or a propaganda angle to exploit. Only time will tell if Putin was a genius or idiot and the final ending of this tale remains to be written. The only indisputable thing about it is that it would not have happened if the USA had remained on the course set by Trump regarding self-sufficiency in energy, strengthening our military and defensive capabilities and strengthening NATO from within its European membership, rather than expanding its membership eastward into countries bordering Russia itself. Putin saw the feckless, weak, self-destructive forces unleashed by the Biden cabal as a green light to his hegemonic aspirations. Had he continued to nibble at the edges instead of attempting to swallow Ukraine whole, his eventual success was guaranteed, as history showed throughout the years of the Bush, Clinton and Obama regimes. He may yet be successful, regardless.

This is only one of the myths that the crisis is destroying.

Tadas' piece says all the right things. But are these observations factual or wishful thinking? For example, FTA - " A thousand Russian soldiers die each day of the assault. In the four days prior to this writing, 4,000 have died." I'd like to believe this is true, but Tadas, who or what was your source? Let's hope at least some of this information is true.

Yo, Rooskies, welcome to Vietnam. You’ve just poked your paw into Tarbaby. Gettin loose will be messy. (Can I say Tarbaby anymore?).

I think the article makes valid points but takes them a little far afield. I expect that we're all bearing in mind the first casualty of war.

A critical thinker would ask why didn’t Russia “waltz in to Ukraine.” A critical thinker would know that Russia certainly has the capability to do so. A critical thinker would question whether there was something else going on, other than the current narrative. A critical thinker would see the similarities between this situation and the early days of Covid. Where are the critical thinkers, American Thinker?

I believe about a third of what I read then make up the rest for myself. I do believe Putin made a big miscalculation now he's in a quagmire of a mess. If this continues Putin is slipping into madness, he will not be stable if sanctions and the world shuns him. Putin is toast if this continues. Russia, I believed after the first day of the invasion they were not the 'superpower' or a financial might in the world as most believed. MUGA

I don’t believe Putin sent his best into Ukraine. Those Russian soldiers act like scrapings off the streets of Moscow. Time will tell but I think the worst is yet to come.

Sorry AT, but I am not buying this. The leadership of the USSR/Russia nation has always been concerned when American influence has been on their doorstep. This is all about cleaning out a rotten and corrupted by Biden and company government from Ukraine. Maybe all these media people should start exposing the REAL reasons for this. Biden, Pelosi, Romney, and a host of other members of congress and the WH all have had ties to Ukraine. If one of our states became embedded with other nation's politicians and influence, would we not clean that out? This is what Putin is doing, cleaning out our influence in his literal back yard.

I don't quite buy his thoughts. Even if Russia performs poorly they will most likely control the eastern 1/3 of Ukraine and the Black Sea ports.

What is puzzling to me is, what is the first thing taken out by an invading army? Their communication system. Then there can be no coordination btwn units etc. Here we have Zalinsky giving daily updates and the Ukrainians communicating with whoever they want. The other interesting thing is the Russians taking out all the bio weapon labs? Looks like the Russians have a game plan for this invasion that is not the textbook "invasion".

Little Tadas is in for a big surprise. Putin has shocked his own people with this invasion and they appear to be stunned. Once the soldiers start dying in large numbers, it will become emotional and no longer political. The Russians behind the weapons will be angry and kill everyone within sight. Wait for it.

I hope this proves to be prescient.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out. I don't see the Ukrainians giving up easily. There are seemingly credible reports of Russian troops not being aware that they were on an invasion, thinking it was another training exercise, and suddenly the world around them is blowing up. If this is true, how hard will they fight? It would seem that Ukrainians fighting for their homes and their home country would fight a lot harder than a Russian conscript who has no idea why he is there, or what he is fighting for. And the author makes a good point of the "fellow Slavs" thing. Apparently they Russians do see the Ukrainians as a related people, although many Ukrainians told me that they wanted Russians to leave Ukraine alone, and were unhappy with Russian puppet politicians, like Yanukovych who was ejected by the Maidan protesters. Even if Kiev (or Kyiv) is taken by Russian forces, I don't think that they will have an easy time. Will they be willing to do what the Germans did in Bohemia (Czech Republic now) and Yugoslavia when partisans killed major leaders? When Reich Security Commander Reinhard Heydrich was assassinated in Prague, the Germans murdered about 5,000 Czechs in reprisal. Are the Russians going to be up for that sort of repraisals if there are assassinations? I have no idea. But I wouldn't be surprised if the Ukrainians work hard to take out any future Russian occupation leadership, if it ever gets to that point, which is certainly unknown at this time.

This war is all of about 6 days old. To call this a "failure" for Russia because of a bunch of propaganda hit-pieces that tend to be proven as false is just that -- propaganda!!! We all know Putin is evil -- Hitler-level evil!!! We all hope Russia fails by whatever means is necessary. But I still believe, because of the sheer advantage Russia has in manpower and weaponry, and Putin's sadistic will to win, that Russia will not "grow disillusioned" by any setbacks they encounter. They are going to win this war no matter what the cost. Even reading between the propaganda lines, Russia has clearly held back on any major attacks on civilian targets (or there would be many more dead Ukranian civilians as we speak). But the longer this drags on, Putin is going to get impatient, then Russia is going to throw everything they have (hopefully short of nukes) to win this war.

One thing about what has been happening, is that NATO has nothing to worry about, if after five days of combat, as sources in Ukraine have been feeding the Western media, that the Russian Army and the Russian Marines are either surrendering to the Ukrainians or are running away, after the Russian airborne troops, and special forces units have been wiped out by Ukrainian fighters. If that is the true fighting state of the Russian military they had better retreat back into Russia and hope the the great Ukrainian fighters don’t follow them. But something says that there’s may well be some psychological warfare misinformation being used, we will see within a short time.