There are no divisions of different sorts. Victory is gained in battle, not in public disputes
undercover games
How annoying are undercover games. Some accusations against each other. Tired and outraged to the core. It is clear that the “peacetime syndrome” was, is and will be even in war. The classic "reward the innocent and punish the innocent" in action. Good is not the one who took the opponent's opornik, but the one who reported it beautifully.
But to disturb society with showdowns that are beneficial primarily to the enemy is to play on the side of the enemy. Look at Ukrainian and Western Internet resources. How much joy you will see in our enemies. How many more “Russia will soon fall apart” will you read.
It's no secret that not only commanders, but also units are different. Some are sharpened on the offensive, and sitting on the defensive for a long time is like death for them. I talk with some soldiers from such units and feel directly with my skin how they suffer morally and physically from trench life. The main question they ask is when?
But there are others, no less brave, but completely different. They work. They work in exactly the same way as they would work in a factory or some other enterprise. Ordered to stand and forget about the retreat - they stand, and nothing can move them. At the same time, a fairly comfortable life is being established there in a short time. "And what? We need a bath. So they organized it on their own!”
You listen to the fighters of such units and you get the impression that they are specially humorous: “They stick at us like idiots, and we laugh among ourselves. Where are you climbing on your BMP. You will now be fried like a grilled chicken ... ”This is a job that they, like any other, do well.
Which division is better? Are there criteria for determining the best in war? Eat! Not even criteria, but a criterion. One. But the most important! This is the result, the higher it is, the more effective the unit. Everything else is secondary. There is a result, which means that there is a more effective management system in the unit! So better organized interaction!
Which department should be preferred? Everything depends on the task at hand. For example, I was very surprised by some of the arguments even of the current commanders that the Wagner volunteers simply began to receive the same ration of ammunition as the rest. It's good that things seem to be back to normal.
I understand commanders. In war, you probably won’t meet a commander who would say that he has enough of everything. According to the norm - maybe, but in fact ... The stock does not pull the pocket. “Suddenly what”, and such “suddenly” happen almost daily. The presence of a sufficient (or better - more than the norm) amount of ammunition saves the lives of fighters.
No matter what they say or write, their own fighters are always better than replenishment. The commander takes care of every soldier. What about replenishment? They quickly become theirs too. Literally after the first fight.
But even here a seditious thought arises in my head. And who bears the main losses? Those who defend, or those who break into the enemy's defenses?
And the second question is no less relevant. And who determines the norms for the supply of ammunition? Based on what?
How many times has the phrase slipped through the media that the consumption of ammunition in Artemovsk (Bakhmut) is many times higher than it was in Stalingrad. At the same time, they wrote about it with some pleasure. Here is our strength. The whole of Europe stood in a pose of sic, crying about the depletion of arsenals.
I wonder why we quickly forget who does what in NWO? It somehow became of little interest that the Wagner volunteers were advancing almost from the beginning of the operation. Moreover, they have not retreated since the beginning of the NWO. They get the toughest jobs and get them done. Another question is with what losses. Yes, I am sure that the losses of Wagner volunteers are higher than in other units. But the tasks are being completed!
And here again the thought slowed down. I recalled the recent statement by Yevgeny Prigozhin about the end of the campaign to recruit volunteers among Russian prisoners. To be honest, I was very surprised by this statement. I was surprised because just a few days before this statement, Prigozhin published a video saying goodbye to fighters whose contracts had ended.
I saw the happy faces of the Wagnerites who returned home as heroes, not outcasts. Even those who became disabled during the operation. "Nothing. They will make a prosthesis and go home. To their own. Here is my family...” These were men who probably first learned what it is to be a man. Men capable of any feats who have gone through fire, water and copper pipes.
I wonder why this Wagner PMC refuses volunteer prisoners and at the same time shows its one-day losses in one of the videos on its Telegram channel? Refuses, despite these very eyes of his "demobilizations"? Well, I don’t believe that with such losses, the commanders will refuse such replenishment. To do this, such commanders must be very “strongly asked” to do this.
Even another statement by Prigozhin about hundreds and thousands of Americans who want to cooperate with PMCs did not convince me. Something I do not hear in the divisions of the volunteers of the NWO American speech. Maybe somewhere in Africa, in Asia, or somewhere else, American speech is heard among the Wagner fighters, but not in the Donbass.
Somehow, by the way, I remembered that PMC "Wagner" is not bad, to put it mildly, has established itself in Syria. According to rumors, they even somehow had to “bite” the American special forces. Yes, and in the capture of some cities, they distinguished themselves. By the way, in time this coincides with the times when General Sergei Surovikin also served there.
I already wrote about why and thanks to whom PMCs appeared at the front at all. Who could authorize such an order from a private company. And now we combine both judgments into one. Maybe this is the reason for the good supply of the Wagner, which began to falter under the new commander?
General Valery Gerasimov is absent from this scheme. Hence the order - like everyone else! And attack aircraft cannot be "like everyone else." It is not enough for the coming "like everyone else." They need as much as necessary to solve combat missions. And in general, General Gerasimov in this case turned out to be extreme and completely undeserved.
Remember when the "star rose" PMC "Wagner"? Despite the fact that the company has been successfully operating from the very beginning of the SVO. They started talking about PMCs when it started story with the capture of Artemovsk. Last summer. It was then when the frontal attack failed, and the "epoch of Wagner" began. There were reports about the taking of crowbars, the advancement of attack aircraft by tens or hundreds of meters.
For the first time, we learned how employees of a private company, including volunteers from former inmates, fight. After a short time, materials appeared about the exploits of the musicians, about awarding them with government awards, even conferring the titles of Heroes of the Republics and Russia. And here is the scandal over the supply of ammunition.
And also there were materials that local authorities refuse to comply with decisions on the burial of PMC fighters in memorial cemeteries. About the fact that relatives are not helped in carrying out such burials, and the like. Somehow it happened that living employees were perceived as heroes, and the dead heroes again turned into ordinary prisoners in the eyes of the local authorities.
I don't support either side. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has indeed been seriously “screwed up” in some matters. And even before the decline in supplies. We remember the reports of General Konashenkov about the capture of settlements by "volunteer detachments with the support of the Aerospace Forces and units of the Russian army." And the reaction of military correspondents and members of the NWO to such messages. It looked ugly, to put it mildly.
But Yevgeny Prigozhin is far from an angel. Many interlocutors told me long before the scandal that his criticism of the leadership of the Moscow Region, the leaders of some regions of Russia would backfire on him. Remember how evil Prigozhin spoke about the governor of St. Petersburg, Alexander Beglov, when a misunderstanding arose in the case of the funeral of the deceased Wagner musician.
What about his public supply charges? I understand that this issue was paramount for the PMC attack aircraft command. But I also understand that bringing military issues into the public sphere is unacceptable. It is unacceptable because there will always be radical people in society who will independently think up the facts and demand blood and circuses.
It's nothing you can do. The society is multi-stage. Some, like gladiators, go into battle, risking themselves. Others tear muscles to help gladiators. Still others are looking for new arguments in the negotiations ... But there are those who are tearing their stomachs ... "in the stands of the Colosseum." Those who "have a finger" that can be turned up and down, and so it's easy to doom the gladiators to death or to life.
Now about something else
Why do we need public scandals among the command of units and subunits? Why are scandals needed today?
We, those who participate in the operation, working in the rear, have changed. We have united. And those who propose to “pull out with blood from the system of the Ministry of Defense everyone who does something wrong or does nothing”, and those who defend the honor and dignity of officers, offering to sort it out first and only then make the final decision.
We all want victories and a speedy end to the operation. We do not divide our army "by grade". For us, the contract soldiers who used to serve on the territory of Russia are the same as the contract soldiers of the “new old draft”, who used to fight in the corps of the NM of the republics.
For us, volunteers from BARS and volunteers from musicians are exactly the same Russian soldiers as soldiers and officers of the army. They are everything to us - our Army! When I see the Russian flag on the administration building of another liberated village, I am proud of my Army. And if next to our flag I see the banner of some division or some republic, I am doubly proud.
Well, how can I separate the Russian army from the "Somalia", from the "Ghosts", from the Pacific Marines, from the paratroopers and artillerymen, from the same PMC "Wagner"? Any fighter, private, sergeant, officer, general, who goes into battle under the flag of my country is my relative. And the banner of his unit, unit, formation is my banner!
No need to be mean, hiding the victories of some unit. The banner that is above the liberated settlement is not the banner of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, not the banner of General Gerasimov, not the banner of General Kadyrov, not the banner of Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Next to the flag of my, no - our country, the banner of the victorious unit, unit, formation is developing! Every year, at the Victory Parade, we see the banner of Russia next to the assault flag of the 150th Order of Kutuzov II degree of the Idritsa Rifle Division!
It is the business of historians to study the actions of units, subunits, and individuals in war. As well as hanging labels. This is not the time to look for right and wrong. There are questions for everyone. Even to those who have no questions yet. When we win, the questions will disappear. Winners are not judged.
But to do that, you have to win...
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