Ukraine is just an episode of the hybrid war of the West against Russia
Increasingly, there are questions about the timing of the special operation. Readers want everything to be like in a fairy tale. Good quickly defeated evil, and they began to live happily ever after. Trying to find the answer to this question, people sometimes lose touch with reality.
“Well, what are we pulling with Mariupol? According to our analysts, there are about 2 bandits there. It is necessary to quickly clear the dungeons of Azovstal. Run special forces there, combat robots, some kind of rambaud. At the same time, when asked whether they know the length of the underground premises of the plant, people just shrug their shoulders: "And is it important?"
Alas, it matters. More than 100 km of underground facilities. Can you imagine the number of personnel needed to take these dungeons? And the number of losses, taking into account the fact that the defense has been equipped for a long time? The underground infrastructure of a metallurgical plant is far from a cellar in a rural hut or the basement of a high-rise building.
Probably, in order to understand, among other things, the timing of the operation, it is worth talking a little about the global confrontation between the two worlds, about the global redistribution of the world. Simply because the special operation in Ukraine is just an episode of this confrontation. Reconnaissance in combat, if you will.
Many readers have noticed how the attitude of the West towards this conflict is gradually changing. How, for example, the composition of supplies for the Armed Forces of Ukraine is diversified. The West began with the supply of equipment, medicines and the like. Next is the weapons. Then the old Soviet, anti-tank systems, air defense systems of the Stinger type. Today we are talking about heavy weapons.
World War III today is called hybrid (hybrid warfare)
Can you explain the term “hybrid war” that has long bothered everyone? I'm sure you should include any news transmission, and this particular phrase will immediately pop up. Now I will reveal a secret to some of our readers who, in their youth, went on business trips abroad of the USSR.
Comrades "ihtamnets", this directly concerns you. Hybrid warfare is a type of hostilities in which the opposing countries do not resort to the direct use of their armed forces. In reality, this looks like support for one of the parties at different levels, like the supply of weapons and intelligence, like instructors training local armed formations.
This also includes the conduct of sabotage by some unknown “third force”. Including in the information space. What we call enemy propaganda is actually one of the important elements of hybrid warfare. Journalists in this case are exactly the same "ihtamnets" as instructors and translators. In the modern world, wars in cyberspace have been added to all of the above.
I think it is now clear why it is impossible to name the exact dates for the start of the modern war. It is not visible to the general public. Ordinary peacetime. Politicians on TV screens hug each other and raise toasts for peace and friendship, and the war goes on... And in this war, someone always wins, someone loses, someone dies, unfortunately.
This is one of the most important features of modern hybrid warfare. The parties to the conflict must create in the information space the appearance of the absence of their interests. In the American version, this is called plausible deniability. I am not me, and the horse is not mine, in Russian. For what? In order to preserve their own image of peacekeepers…
Ukrainian specificity of hybrid war
If you carefully read the previous part, then you have a completely logical question about who is on the side of the truth - us or the Americans? We support supposedly separatists who want to secede from the state that was created in Ukraine, while the Americans support the supposedly legitimate government.
The answer is quite complicated and... simple. And it lies in the events of 2014. To understand this, one should move away from the stereotype created long ago.
“The rebels are some kind of military outcasts who self-proclaimed themselves representatives of the people. Some paramilitary gangs opposing the legitimate government.
In fact, things are not so at all. There was a coup in Ukraine. Nobody denies this anymore. This coup led to conflict in the east of the country and in the Crimea. The local army and security forces supported the participants in the conflict. Thus, the army became part of the coup.
Let's add here the appearance of illegal armed groups, such as punitive battalions, the "Right Sector" and others, foreign PMCs. Which acted and act on the side of Kyiv. Here is the composition of the real rebels. Those who took over the country. I recently read the beautiful name of these formations - rebels in bloomers.
What of what I listed above is currently used by the West? First, it is the active training of narrow specialists in the West. Remember sending soldiers and officers to various training courses, training in working with NATO weapons systems, NATO tactics and warfare strategies, and the like.
The rebels in bloomers were preparing for war with Russia. Moreover, as the experience of the special operation showed, the same instructors trained the Syrian and other rebels. The tactics of the war repeat one to one what happened in Syria, Afghanistan and other hot spots.
In the same way, today it can already be stated with full confidence that the West trained specialists in the use of modern Western military equipment and weapons. Here's an example for you. Last fall, a group of Ukrainian military personnel was sent to the United States to be trained to work with drones switchblade.
The fact is insignificant, but... The decision to provide these drones to Ukraine was made only this month! Agree, the suspicious insight of the Ukrainian General Staff, given the cost of training such specialists. Only, it seems to me, here we need to use completely different words - knowledge of the decision taken by the Pentagon.
And secondly. Training of soldiers and officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, punishers and other formations right on the spot by Western instructors. Unfortunately, I do not know the exact number of instructors, but their number was in the thousands. Even today, when it was announced about the withdrawal of all instructors from the territory of Ukraine, according to our specialists, foreign military specialists continue to train local personnel. The British SAS (Special Airborne Group) is still in Obolon.
Well, thirdly. The recruitment of foreign mercenaries to work in Ukraine is not denied even in the West. Sometimes it even seems that mercenaries, in fact outlaws in the war, have already become local heroes in the US, Britain and Europe. Not criminals, but heroes.
Well, fourthly. Look at what is happening in the information space of the West. Every day, some Western leader says that NATO and the EU do not want a direct clash with Russia. The peaceful West is trying to curb aggressive Russia.
At the same time, Russian information channels are actively blocked, be it the media or social networks. All of Europe is painted in yellow and blue colors. The townsfolk are constantly subjected to ideological pressure from the media. And yesterday's decision to present an award by some German organization of journalists to Zelensky for the development of freedom of speech does not fit into any framework at all.
Nerves of hybrid war
Initially, I did not want to put this information into a separate part of the material. Just because I recently wrote about it. But then I remembered an old phrase that the German banker Nathan Mayer Rothschild once said:
"Who owns the information, he owns the world."
And the importance of information in modern warfare is no less than the importance of modern weapons or the presence of well-trained fighters. Again, let me remind you of a letter from US senators, which also "fits" well with the concept of the war being waged against us. This is a letter from the US Senate to President Biden urging him to provide Kyiv with intelligence about the Russian army and its plans.
The letter was published in the public domain on the website of the Senate. So there is nothing secret about it. But any specialist will immediately connect this information with the increased activity of American intelligence on our borders.
Remember the American RQ-4 Global Hawk UAVs that were constantly in the sky of Ukraine for almost the entire winter? But these are reconnaissance drones capable of “seeing” targets within a radius of 100 km.
And how do you like a whole brood of reconnaissance aircraft, which is now grazing in the skies of Poland, Romania, Hungary, over the Black Sea. RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft, E-3 early warning aircraft, E-8 combat control and target designation aircraft, R-8 anti-submarine aircraft and a decent number of other aircraft.
Let's add satellites to these scouts, and we will get a picture that, I am sure, the Ukrainian General Staff receives in real time. And this is not the provision of intelligence. This is completely different. This is called in the language of the military external combat control. This is a real participation in the hostilities of a foreign army ...
I think experts will agree with me that such participation costs more than all these anti-tank systems and other weapons. Guidance of units and subunits on the most unprotected objects of the Russian army, direct target designation online, control over the actions of ground reconnaissance, electronic reconnaissance ...
Balancing on the brink of a hot war
So, Russia's special operation in Ukraine is just an episode of a large and long-standing war against the dominance of the West and the United States in the world. It is time for a global revision of geopolitical relations. The rules of the game on the world stage are changing.
And this means that Russia simply cannot stop the special operation until all the tasks set by the Supreme Commander-in-Chief are completed. Any other decision would be just a delay, a freeze of the situation. And for a very short period.
I already wrote that Russia, having launched a special operation, was ahead of the West. The same view was expressed by many military and political experts. Now the following conclusion should be drawn.
In the event of a suspension of the special operation in any form, for any reason, we are threatened with the next phase of hybrid warfare. I think the plan for this phase has already been prepared or is being developed at NATO headquarters. Only this phase will take place on our territory, in our villages and cities. And our people will suffer! What is happening in Ukraine today will seem like kindergarten to us...
However, I think that there is no option in NATO plans to stop the conflict in Ukraine… The hybrid war must continue…
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