On December 21, according to the Russian satellite network, ** Defense Minister General Shoigu said at the meeting that there is evidence that a large number of NATO regular troops are directly involved in the Russian-Ukrainian war, including operating air defense systems, tactical missiles and Seahorse rocket systems, and at the same time, in order to prove what was said, the radio content intercepted by the Russian army was directly released, and English and Polish can be heard in the recording.
It has become an open secret that Western countries are training soldiers to help Ukraine, and according to General Shoigu, since the invasion of Ukraine, the Russian army has eliminated more than 5,800 NATO mercenaries, including 466 Americans, 344 British, and 1,427 Poles. The number of mercenaries in the Ukrainian army decreased by 83%.
The conflict between Russia and Ukraine was forcibly forced out by the United States and NATO, and the United States originally wanted to use the conflict between Russia and Ukraine to weaken Russia, but it did not expect that Russia would become stronger and stronger.
After more than 600 days of tempering in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the whole of Russia has become an efficient military production workshop, and military industrial enterprises have been successfully activated, and production capacity has skyrocketed. According to TASS on December 19, the Russian army will receive 1,530 new tanks, 2,518 armored vehicles, 237 aircraft, 153 sets of air defense equipment, 4 submarines and 8 submarines in 2023. Compared to 2022, tank production will increase by 5 in 20236 times, the production of infantry combat vehicles increased by 36 times, UAV production increased by 168 times, an increase in shell production by 175 times.
Since the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the West has provided the Ukrainian army with 5,220 tanks and armored vehicles, 87 aircraft, 230,000 UAVs and more than 1,300 artillery systems. According to the disclosure of the Russian army, since the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the Ukrainian army has lost more than 380,000 casualties, and the Ukrainian army has been 15 during the **period since June this year90,000 people, 766 tanks were lost, including 37 Leopard tanks, 2348 armored vehicles.
The most important thing is that the two-year war is not a wave of flat pushes and crushing the game, but a lot of meat grinding wars, gnawing down little by little. What Makarin, **Mutter, Avadiivka, especially the 244 days and 8 months of the Battle of **Mutter, can be called Verdun in the 21st century. At the beginning of the conflict, a large number of voices mocking the Russian army on the Internet for pulling their crotch and behaving extremely unexpectedly did not meet expectations, and now it has disappeared. From this point of view, the Russian army is definitely advancing.
After being tempered by hard war, more than 650,000 troops of the Russian army have been killed from the war against Ukraine. Almost 200 people were awarded the title "Hero of Russia". In the conflict, the Russian army fought with the entire West, obtained a lot of first-hand information, and mastered a lot of information, which are the soft power of Moscow to deal with the war with NATO in the future.
On December 18, Reuters reported that Finland and the United States officially signed the "Defense Cooperation Agreement", the core of which is that Finland will open up to 15 military bases to the United States, including four air bases and one naval base.
This means that the United States is deeply aware that Ukraine is no longer able to stop the Russian army, and a new second front must be opened.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has been in chaos, the United States and NATO are pressing forward step by step, continuing to squeeze Russia's living space, and Russia is facing a worse and worse geopolitical situation.
In 1994, the United States, Russia, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom signed the "Budapest Memorandum on Security Guarantees" in Hungary, the core of which was to denuclearize Ukraine.
In 1999, NATO's first eastward expansion saw Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic join NATO. NATO's front line has expanded 700 kilometers eastward, and NATO has an absolute strategic advantage over Russia.
In 2002, NATO expanded eastward for the second time, admitting seven countries: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Romania and Bulgaria, to NATO. Since then, Russia has started from the Baltic Sea in the north, passed through the Black Sea and the Caucasus in the middle, and reached Central Asia, forming an arc-shaped defense line, completely blocking the possibility of Russia's eastward expansion.
NATO's third eastward expansion in 2009 included Croatia and Albania. In June 2017, Montenegro joined NATO. Montenegro covers an area of 1390,000 square kilometers with a population of 6140,000, which is not as big as a county in my country, absorbing Montenegro is more of political significance, in order to attract more countries to integrate into the US strategic system and squeeze Russia. In 2020, NATO expanded eastward for the fifth time, and North Macedonia joined.
At this point, the only remaining strategic hinterland on Russia's side is Ukraine. Tsarist Russia has been fighting in the south and north for hundreds of years, losing tens of millions of people to gain the fruits of expansion, and basically losing everything.
Since its independence in 1991, Russia has been in a state of confusion and has simply not been able to find its place in the world. Throwing to the West, Europe and the United States did not accept it at all, but as European countries instinctively refused to go to the East. After the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, did Russia turn to the East?No, it can only be said that each takes what he needs and relies on each other.
Russia wants to establish a new order, to stop this decline in national fortunes, and to re-emerge as a pole of the world. In 2014, the color revolution broke out in Ukraine, Moscow sent troops to take Crimea and intervened in the civil war in eastern Ukraine, and the Russian-Ukrainian conflict broke out in 2022. The current conflict between Russia and Ukraine is Russia's battle of prestige, prohibiting NATO's eastward expansion and threatening Russia's core areas.
To use a very apt analogy. The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea was a battle for the founding of New China, announcing to the world that the era of Western aggressors who could occupy a country by erecting a few cannons on a coast in the East for hundreds of years is gone forever!
Then, the current Russian-Ukrainian conflict is the battle for the founding of the country after Russia's independence, and dignity can only be recaptured from the battlefield through bloodshed and hard confrontation with the enemy. Ukraine also has nuclear **, but dare to use it?
The meat grinders of Makarin, **Mut, and Avadiivka on the battlefield of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict are the same as Shangganling, Changjin Lake, and Tieyuan on the battlefield to resist US aggression and aid Korea. NATO understands that Russia's interests also need to be respected, only after seeing these Russian flags piled up with horrific dead soldiers.
Is Putin a Hero of Russia?From the perspective of Russian history, Russia worships heroes, needs heroes, and heroes are always born in adversity, and the outbreak of tenacious will to resist, defeat Napoleon, and eliminate Hitler are all the same.
Now, as long as Russia takes back the four places in eastern Ukraine, it means that it is no longer a weak Song, but a strong man, who can attack and retreat. The 650,000 soldiers of the Russian army who have experienced the "baptism" of iron and blood on the battlefield of Russia and Ukraine are the sharp blade that cuts off NATO's westward expansion. Russia is destined to become a world pole and leave a name in the world, and so is Putin.