Unknowingly, this war has been fought for two years, and at five o'clock in the morning on February 24, 2022, after Russia's previous series of demands for Ukraine, Europe and the United States were rejected, Putin issued a TV talk, profoundly expounding NATO's strategic deception of the Soviet Union since the collapse of the Soviet Union from the two dimensions of history and nationality, ignoring the agreement reached between the two sides and blindly pursuing eastward expansion, which eventually led to the status quo and dilemma between Russia and Ukraine. Therefore, the Russian army had to carry out a "special military operation" to demilitarize Ukraine.
Why does Putin think that the West has deceived **, it has to start from the collapse of the Soviet Union. When it comes to the collapse of the Soviet Union, most people will think of Gorbachev, it is true that the old Ge is indeed responsible for the collapse of the Soviet Union, but by no means the main responsibility, in fact, he is not capable of doing so, and the Soviet Union's illness can be traced back to Lenin and Stalin.
The person who really collapsed the Soviet Union was Yeltsin, who was the leader of the Russian Communist Party, and Russia was the main body of the Soviet Union, and if Russia did not want to play the Soviet Union, it would definitely not be able to maintain it. At that time, the West also hoped that he would bring down the Soviet Union, and gave him a lot of empty checks, saying that as long as the Soviet Union did not exist, there would be no ideological opposition with the West, and the West would open the door to meet the West, and the two sides would live a happy and harmonious life from then on, and especially guaranteed that NATO would not expand eastward and compress the geopolitical space.
It was because of this promise that Yeltsin forced Gorbachev to dissolve the Soviet Union. But the plot behind it was unexpected, Yeltsin and Putin repeatedly applied to the United States to join NATO but were rejected, and at the same time, NATO immediately began the pace of eastward expansion, and the little brothers of the Warsaw Pact became NATO members one by one, and went directly to the border between Ukraine and Belarus, which is the gate of the Eastern Slavs.
In 2008, the West instigated Georgia to challenge **, and it was also the year that Ukraine also moved the idea of joining NATO. All in all, Putin means that Russia has been forced to have no way out, and it has to do it as a last resort. Of course, Putin's narrative is not accepted by the West.
At first, I thought that Russia's huge size advantage, as well as the performance of the Ukrainian army in the eastern region of Ukraine for eight years, Russia's military action against Ukraine would be a one-sided situation, just like the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, and the US-British coalition army only took less than three months to enter Baghdad and capture Saddam Hussein alive.
But the actual progress of the war is a big surprise. The first round of the Russian army's offensive was launched from the north, east, and south at the same time, first with cruise missiles washing the ground and then mechanized troops to break through to the depths of Ukraine, in an attempt to quickly seize the three strategic targets of Kyiv, Kharkiv and Mariupol, paralyze Zelensky's will to resist, and achieve a quick victory. This is the parody show of the US military in the Gulf War. ** And in fact, the Russian army finally completed only 1 3 mission objectives.
That is, after nearly three months of attacking, Mariupol was occupied in May 2022 and the Sea of Azov corridor was opened. The siege of Kyiv had little effect, and the main reason in retrospect was that the US intelligence department informed Ukraine of the Russian army's plans in advance, and the Ukrainian army had long been prepared to arrange ambush positions and wait for the Russian army to enter the urn. The assault on Kyiv failed, and the Russian army had to lift the encirclement of Kyiv early in April and transfer its forces to the eastern front. In Kharkiv in the east, not only did not achieve results, but the Ukrainian army made a big fight in September.
After the defeat of the first large-scale offensive of the Russian army, the war entered a protracted attrition and tug-of-war, and the battle line also tended to stabilize. Neither side is capable of launching a full-scale offensive again, and only fierce offensive and defensive battles and street battles are carried out on some important urban targets, such as Kherson, Redman, **Mut, and Avdeyevka. It turns out that this Ukrainian army is not as weak as imagined, and it is not the homecoming regiment that is rumored in the outside world. The Russian army is not as brave as the legend, and has long lost the soul of the Soviet Union's steel torrent.
The reason why Ukraine has not become a second Iraq is entirely due to the fact that NATO countries have taken turns training and assisting the Ukrainian army since 2015. When the color revolution broke out in Ukraine in 2014, the Ukrainian army was just a rabble. That year, the pro-Russian Yanukovych was driven into exile**, Poroshenko came to power and led Ukraine to fully fall to the United States and the West, and Russia decisively promoted the referendum of Crimea to Russia, and at the same time increased efforts to aid the pro-Russian militias in the Donbas region. In order to recapture the two oblasts of Donbass, Ukraine mobilized a total of 17 brigades of all the Wehrmacht to fight in eastern Ukraine, but was surrounded by militia in the small city of Debaltsevo.
It is against this background that the Minsk Agreements were made. The agreement has two core issues, a ceasefire and a constitutional amendment. The militia of eastern Ukraine ceased fire with the army, and the Ukrainian army amended the constitution to give the two states of eastern Ukraine a special political status, but as a result, they did not wait for a special status, and what they were waiting for was the Ukrainian army that was rearmed by NATO. From 2015 to 2022, at the behest of the United States, former Warsaw Pact countries Poland, Slovakia, and East Germany successively transported sealed Soviet-style ** to Kyiv to help the Ukrainian army expand. Ukraine has also officially joined NATO and the European Union, completely "cutting off the robe" with the EU. At the same time, Ukrainian nationalism is strongly pursued in the Russian-dominant states.
After the personal end of 2022, NATO's assistance to Ukraine has also been upgraded, including some advanced equipment, such as Germany's Leopard 2, Britain's Challenger 2, and the United States' MIA2. These are the main battle tanks in service in NATO countries, which are more advanced than the T90 series tanks that the Russian army is currently mainly equipped with. Therefore, in fact, it has been formed: the Russian army is the dominant side in general, but in the specific part of the battlefield, the equipment of the Ukrainian army is ahead.
In the past two years, the 30 NATO countries have provided nearly $250 billion in aid to Ukraine, and more than $150 billion in military spending has been consumed during the same period. Russia is almost fighting with the entire NATO, Ukraine is just a ** person, similar to the Vietnam War, the United States fought with North Vietnam for ten years, he won every battle, but still lost the whole war, because North Vietnam can also be regarded as a ** person, with almost unlimited assistance from China and the Soviet Union behind it. This battle is sparsely fought, which makes people feel a lot of emotion. Putin has repeatedly said that Ukraine is not the enemy of **, and his enemy is the US and Western bloc behind it. Because it is difficult to imagine that the contradiction between Russia and Ukraine will be ***
Dnipro and Odessa in Ukraine are castles built by order of Empress Catherine, Gogol, the founder of realist literature, the famous critical painter Repin, and Ostrovsky, the author of "How Steel is Made", were all born in Ukraine. And Pushkin, Tolstoy, Tchaikovsky, these great writers and artists have also had an indissoluble bond with Ukraine. History, ethnicity, culture, beliefs, and traditions are all one and the same in any way. And now that the precision-guided ** of Russia and Ukraine is attacking cities with a common historical and cultural imprint, Putin must have struggled a little in his heart at the moment when he made up his mind.
Odessa, Kharkov, Lugansk, Donetsk, Kiev, Azov ......The last time I saw these place names in a concentrated manner was when I read the Great Patriotic War part of the Soviet Union in the history of World War II in the early and middle years, when Ukraine was the main battlefield, and the German army surrounded the Soviet Southwestern Front in the Battle of Kiev and captured more than 600,000 ......
At that time, these cities were still the hero cities of the Soviet Union, Russia and Ukraine were still a family, and the two sides walked hand in hand to resist the invaders, the Battle of Kharkov, the Battle of Crimea, the Battle of Sevastopol, and the Battle of the Dnieper.
I didn't expect that the Soviet Union was also disintegrated by ** and Ukraine, and I didn't expect that when these cities appeared in the public eye frequently, Russia and Ukraine had changed from teammates to rivals......It is born from the same root, so why is it too anxious to fry each other.