I want to endorse today an article fresh from William Schryver’s imetatronink blog. Schryver does not flood the world of many babbling voices swirling around the edges and quickly disappearing with a momentary flash into the black hole which is the graveyard of opinions, public and private, on the all-important conflict, of global significance, currently confined mostly to the borders of Ukraine. So, when he writes something on that, I generally listen intently to what he has to say. I want to share this latest piece with you.
The Object of War – by William Schryver – imetatronink – June 12, 2023
Here is a brief quote from the piece, which is possibly the most revealing as to its thrust and yet so often misunderstood in commentary, at any level, on the subject of war: “…the object of war is to destroy the enemy army.” And that singular object takes precedence over any consideration as to territory.
Given that ‘objective’ – and I am not going to further dissect what Schryver says here – the Russian campaign in Ukraine (whatever its original goals were or will become) has been highly successful and their victory guaranteed. The army they are facing, and destroying, in June 2023 is the third Ukrainian army they have destroyed since the beginning in February of 2022. It is also the fourth such Ukraine army, the first of which was destroyed by Donbass militia units way back in 2014 before they were fully formed as separate republics, culminating with the rout of remaining Ukraine forces at Debaltseve in February 2015 (said to be assisted by Wagner PMC forces) prior to the ceasefire organised under the Minsk Agreements. It was the deceitful misuse of those agreements by western interests to rebuild another Ukraine army, together with the continual abuse of their terms to destroy and kill thousands of Donbass civilians by Ukraine artillery over the whole of the ceasefire period, and an imminent known intention to destroy the Donbass republics, which led to the Russian intervention (not before time and after repeated warnings) in February 2022.
Much of this latest ‘NATO trained and armed’ army has already been destroyed in the field, some of their vaunted armour weapons captured, and their failed units, using failed tactics, are even now being replaced in the field of combat by older Ukraine forces, already bloodied in battle but now experienced fighters. But these battle hardened soldiers still failed to hold Artyomovsk (Bakhmut), and now they have to face Russian forces in the open fields and against far superior armaments. The result, though there may be some repeated advancing and retreating across the same landscapes, is assured in Russia’s eventual favour. Do not doubt that.
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