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Caitlin Johnstone
Published: 2022-05-27
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0JinudC70g
msm offers rare glimpse into how bad things are really going for ukrainian forces while everyone's focused on the latest mass shooting in the u.s the washington post published what may be the first acknowledgment from the mainstream western media that ukraine's war against russia has not been nearly the cakewalk they've been leading the public to believe in a new article titled ukrainian volunteer fighters in the east
feel abandoned wapo reports that contrary to the triumphant narratives the western world is being spoon-fed many troops in eastern ukraine have been surviving on one potato per day and deserting their posts because they feel their leaders have turned their backs on them and they're being sent to certain death stuck in their trenches the ukrainian volunteers lived off a potato per day as russian forces pounded them
with artillery and grad rockets on a key eastern front line outnumbered untrained and clutching only light weapons the men prayed for the barrage to end the washington post reports citing multiple named sources ukrainian leaders have projected and nurtured a public image of military invulnerability of their volunteer and professional forces triumphantly standing up to the russian onslaught the article reads but the experience of lapco and his
group of volunteers offers a rare and more realistic portrait of the conflict and ukraine's struggle to halt the russian advance in parts of donbass ukraine like russia has provided scant information about deaths injuries or losses of military equipment but after three months of war this company of 120 men is down to 54 because of deaths injuries and desertions wapo reports that volunteer troops in that part
of the country quickly found themselves in the crosshairs of war feeling abandoned by their military superiors and struggling to survive we are being sent to certain death said one volunteer we are not alone in this we are many hours after the post interviewed lapko and cruz members of ukraine's military security service arrived at their hotel and detained some of their men accusing them of desertion wapo
reports the men contend that they were the ones who were deserted some commentators have remarked on the fact that at long last we're seeing some realistic coverage of this war in the mainstream press first major u.s media i've seen report catastrophic condition of ukrainian forces collapsing ukrainian morale on the front seems obvious we should know the truth about a war our government is so deeply invested
in tweeted journalist mark ames a frequent critic of the mass media blackout on conditions in the ukrainian military this might be the first article in mainstream publication that punctures the pr spin and secrecy of the foreign military that the u.s is subsidizing two commanders were arrested after they spoke to the washington post painting an extremely grim picture tweeted journalist michael tracy this is indeed a major
break from standard mainstream reporting on this conflict which is normally more in line with this recent newsweek article titled putin's elite soldiers getting wiped out as russia makes mistakes sourced entirely in unevidenced claims by the british government and the military-industrial complex-funded neocon think-tank institute for the study of war so anyway there it is that's the reality on the front lines of this conflict that westerners have
been cheering on from their comfortable homes while calling anyone who advocates a negotiated peace settlement a putin apologist and a kremlin troll these big brave sofa warriors have been on social media demanding that ukrainians keep fighting in this way until they've secured total victory over russia and reclaimed crimea in the dunbas tweeting slava ukrainian with their little blue and yellow flag emojis during the commercial breaks
of their favorite tv show in between mouthfuls of funyuns westerners would be a lot less cavalier about demanding a foreign population keep fighting until total victory if they truly understood the horrors of war unfortunately there's a propaganda machine of unprecedented sophistication that has spent generations preventing them from obtaining that very understanding that's why they're so happy to throw endless ukrainian lives into the gears of the
imperial war machine and that's why wapo the wapo article we are discussing here is receiving very little mainstream attention online as of this writing it will be dismissed and ignored by empire managers in their brainwashed flock with a you just can't hire a good cannon photo these days there's no real reckoning with exactly what's happening and exactly what these people are being called on to put
themselves through in the children's crayon drawing version of this war that lives in the heads of western so-called centrists this is a team of heroic good guys righteously beating the tar out of the hordes of bad guys because that's what happens in the movies and on tv but this is not the movies and this is not tv people are dying in a u.s proxy war that
was deliberately provoked by the u.s centralized empire and behind all the narratives and spin they are ultimately doing so for nothing more noble than the agenda to secure u.s unipolar hegemony many of the blue and yellow flag wavers are well-intentioned and really do think they are advocating for ukrainian freedom and sovereignty but in reality all they've been cheering for is ukrainian subservience and enslavement to the
