The Ukrainian “Spring” counteroffensive, long heralded by the leading Western sources of media such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal as a the beginning of a new phase in the Ukraine war, has ground slowly to a halt.
Distributed across more than three different axes on the 1000 mile front in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian armed forces have advanced no more than 35 square miles in the last fortnight. Nonetheless, the West, primarily the United States, continues to push for the continuation of the counteroffensive, despite Ukraine’s heavy losses.
In contrast to the months-long battle of Bakhmut where Ukrainians witnessed daily triple digit losses with a life expectancy on the front no longer than four hours, in the counteroffensive Ukrainians fare far worse. The casualty figures represent a staggering loss of life. More than 14,000 Ukrainians are estimated to have been killed during the counteroffensive, indicating daily quadruple digit losses.
During the battle of Bakhmut, however, Ukrainians prepared brigades in reserve. These brigades, whose origin Jack Texeira revealed in his Pentagon leak of classified NATO documents, prepared for months, while the Russian armed forces exploited the frenzied obsession with the reclamation of territory as lever to pull Ukrainians into a ‘meat-grinder,’ where thousands upon thousands of men, primarily untrained, inexperienced, civilian Territorial Defense Forces but also American Navy SEALS, perished. With Ukrainians securely marching to death, Russia prepared deadly defenses for the “Spring” counteroffensive, ensuring its outcome to be nothing less than a result of the decisiveness of Bakhmut.
As such the battle of Bakhmut, which became the decisive battle of the Ukraine war, decided the outcome of the Ukrainian counteroffensive. Together with air superiority, Russia’s defenses, at times a complex of multiple layers, serves to prevent a Ukrainian breakthrough. The past fortnight of fighting confirms the decisiveness of the battle of Bakhmut.
Despite, or, rather in spite of, the decisiveness of the battle of Bakhmut, Ukrainians continue to advance on Russia’s defenses under its no-fly zone until the last Ukrainian. The fact that Ukrainians continue to die is not merely history but a result of a calculated effort on the part of the primary architect’s of NATO’s military strategy in eastern Europe.
“In a position paper entitled “Toward a New World Order: The Future of NATO,” published in Open Society Foundations on November 1st, 1993, George Soros, who is undeniably one of the most ambitious strategists of NATO, a truly unremarkable Iago in the Shakespearean sense, vied for “the combination of manpower from Eastern Europe with the technical capabilities of NATO” as a way “to reduce the risk of body bags for NATO countries.”
Ukrainians are the “manpower from Eastern Europe,” while Western supplied heavy weapons, artillery, mortars, or munitions are just a sample of the most basic “technical capabilities of NATO” implemented for the realization of “The Future of NATO.”
With NATO’s exploitation of “manpower from Eastern Europe” as nothing other than Ukrainian men projected on to its breadbasket as cannon fodder, Soros’ ratiocination, the substitution of a NATO country’s working aged men for those of a non-Member State’s, thereby gags, as he argues, “the main constraint on [NATO countries’] willingness to act,” stifling public opinion behind the straight jacket of increasingly closed, European borders of nationalism such as “Ukrainian nationalism” akin to Bandera-ism.
Germany, for instance, whose Bundestag supplies Leopard 2 tanks (i.e., “the technical capabilities of NATO”), may not fear “the main constraint on [NATO countries’] willingness to act,” for Ukrainian manpower reduces the “risk of body bags” for the country.
The dead Ukrainian bodies, whose “body bags for NATO countries” reduce the risk of “the main constraint on [NATO countries’] willingness to act,” however, continue to pile, as they did during the battle of Bakhmut.
On February 7th, 2023, for instance, the New York Times posted a small photo of a morgue in Ukraine, a ghastly reminder of the war’s death toll, lamenting the loss of Ukrainian lives.
The photo of the morgue, captured during the most intense fighting in the city, showed pictures of Ukrainians in white body bags, flung one on top of the other, in such a high number that the morgue’s door appeared to have been jarred open.
Well before the battle of Bakhmut, however, New York Times, displayed on the front page of its newspaper for June 19th, 2022, a picture of “50 fresh graves outside the walls of Lviv’s historic cemetery” below a photo of a mortician carefully preparing a dead soldier for his burial.
Bemoaning, “[an] Endless Caravan of Death,” the authors remarked how “[in] Ukraine, no one is quite sure exactly what the toll is, except that many, many people have been killed.”
It would appear as though Ukrainians are slowly but surely becoming aware. As more and more Ukrainians’ bodies begin to pile up in morgues, mass graves, or in their deadly trenches or Russian defenses, fewer and fewer Ukrainians are prepared to risk their lives to mitigate “the main constraint on [NATO countries’] willingness to act.” Evidence from soldiers serving in Leopard 2 tanks (i.e., “the technical capabilities of NATO”) appear to provide a reason to believe that a shift in consciousness is occurring amongst Ukrainian soldiers.
As the German daily Der Spiegel remarked recently, Ukrainian soldiers are driving tanks onto mines at the earliest opportunity or seeking to acquire self-inflicted wounds. “Manche täuschten Schäden am Panzer vor, nor um nicht in den Kampf zu müssen,” the daily wrote on June 16th, 2023 in an article entitled, “Die Männer mit dem Leopard-2 in die Schlacht ziehen.”
The fact that soldiers are well aware of wait awaits them on the battlefield, however, is no substitute for a lack of awareness as to the underlying architecture of NATO’s schemes. Ukrainians, whose life blood, guts, and flesh were ground in Bakhmut like meat, are not merely “Playing With Fire in Ukraine,” as Mearsheimer’s well founded commentary relays from his article published in Foreign Affairs on August 17th, 2022.
The Ukrainian masses are the victims of a scheme, the primary strategists of NATO’s expansion premeditated for Eastern Europeans in the immediate aftermath of the USSR’s dissolution. No where more apparent is that scheme, Soros’ ratiocination of premeditated murder, evident than in the currently bloody Ukrainian counteroffensive, especially in light of the last fortnight.
Against George Soros’ policy of fighting until the last Ukrainian, Ukrainians must “[once] and for all tear from the hands of the greedy and merciless imperialist clique, scheming behind the backs of the people, the disposition of the people’s fate,” as Leon Trotsky, the founder of the Fourth International, requires in his famous pamphlet, The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International.”
Accordingly, Soros’ ratiocination of premeditated murder (i.e., the substitution of a NATO country’s working aged men for those of a non-Member State’s), which is the modus operandi of Washington’s decision to fund Ukraine with its “technical capabilities,” is far beyond anything as hellish as fire.
It is the death agony of capitalism, resulting in both a contribution to and a result of the insoluble antagonisms of the outmoded capitalist nation-states against the ever expanding objective developments of an irretrievably globalized economy, and it meets its sole repudiation in permanent revolution.
“The socialist revolution,” as Leon Trotsky’s invocation of cosmopolitan fraternity demands, “starts off in the arena of the nation-state, it unfurls on the international arena, and is completed on the world arena. Thus, the socialist revolution becomes a permanent revolution in an advanced and wider sense of the word; it attains fruition only in the everlasting victory of the new society on our entire planet.” [(Лев Троцкий, Итоги и Перспективы | Движущие Силы революции [Москва: Издательство «Советский Мир», 1919]).