Absolutely outstanding war reporting, David. Keep up the good work.
Raz Friman
1 year ago
This was so well written, with such a strong and powerful story.
I have not read anything from Unherd before, but have made an account in order to give you and this story the praise it deserves.
Thank you for risking your life to give us a window into the lives of these heroic brave warriors and telling their story. May they have many many more victories. Slava Ukraini.
Best Unherd article in a very long time, head and shoulders above a lot of the unimportant rubbish trotted out by some of the more socially aware journalists.
Some socially aware journalists appear to think that they have a right to benefit from pre-moderation and censorship of opinions that they, presumably, disagree with.
I was discussing with another subscriber as to why below the line posts on some articles were being held back for a day or two, or just vanished altogether. – One discussion that we were having reached a farcical state as our posts appeared, vanished, re-appeared, got resent etc. We had to clarify by email.
I suspect that if you need to click on “comment” at the end of an article in order to post a comment, then you are being subjected to pre-moderation.
I’ve just had a long comment on the SNP article disappearing due another comment further up the chain having been censored. The whole thread is gone. It’s happened before a few times. When will Freddy get this censorship rectified?
Thank you so much for this very powerful cameo of life on the Ukrainian front. I would imagine that there is not a single Ukrainian patriot who is not saying “Long live toxic masculinity!”
I might also add that this is what real war correspondents do – they take risks to report from what really is the front line. The author’s courage is both appreciated and admired.
This article puts everything back into perspective. The gender wars seem a little out of touch when you read this. Everything else is just nonsense when you’re fighting for your life and way of existence.
Steve Murray
1 year ago
I’ve only recently registered with Unherd, and like others this is my first post. What a brilliant insight into the unrelenting spirit that drives people to defend their families and nation from tyranny.
Lest anyone (else) misinterpret the perhaps tongue-in-cheek quote about “toxic masculinity”, i think its simply meant to reflect that there’s a place in the world for such outright masculinity in defence of freedom. But at the same time, there are women who also fight, perhaps some of them on the front line so they shouldn’t be forgotten. To continue the ironic take on the phrase, perhaps they might be accused of “toxic femininity”!
Nuance and understanding is all, and it was all present in this great article. Well done Unherd, and many thanks to David.
Last edited 1 year ago by Steve Murray
Andrew MacPherson
1 year ago
Registered just to add to what’s already been said. Exceptional reporting on exceptional people. Thanks, David.
Francis MacGabhann
1 year ago
Terrific article, and hugely provocative on the intellectual level. We really have become soft in the west because we’re constantly making the perfect the enemy of the good. Ukraine may have a lot of “far-right” and “ultra nationalists”, but so what? Are they really worse than a society which physically mutilates its children in the name of gender reassignment or which uses ukrainian women as incubators for surrogate births? We seriously need to rethink our priorities in the west, and we can start with accepting that nobody can have it all and that it’s OK to fight for what IS important.
What an opening. I immediately imagined the Ukrainian flag – blue skies above golden fields of wheat – with a coil of razor wire stretched across the horizon where earth meets heaven.
Thanks, David, for the gritty reporting. Keep safe out there …
Things and thoughts. Things and thoughts.
1 year ago
I thought some of the mass graves were less results of atrocities, and more the standard “bury the dead on either side to avoid disease”. Basic battlefield health policy.
If the Russians aren’t burying their dead and are eating right next to them… yeesh. Just like with HMS Royal Sovereign. What kind of commander fails to teach their troops basic healthcare? Even Eastern militaries do better than that.
Fantastic portrait of these warriors. Feels brutally authentic. Loved the comments on Musk, Johnson, and McCain. Well done, David. More, please…
Graeme R
1 year ago
This is the best article on this website that I have read in ages.
it’s great journalism to tell it how it is, without trying to tell the reader how to interpret it / what to think.
thanks for writing this.
joe clapson
1 year ago
Thank you for this raw insight. It is vital.
Juffin Hully
1 year ago
“Toxic masculinity” made my day. Thanks for the good work.
Hardee Hodges
1 year ago
A fine look at the front lines of this war. Understandable characters presented with care. Thanks.
Richard Turpin
1 year ago
Brilliant article.
laurence scaduto
1 year ago
The Ukranians seem to be masters of creative thinking. Kind of funny sometimes, too.
Do you think the two things go hand in hand?
Jerome Tjerkstra
1 year ago
All propaganda. Check out “The Duran” for the other side.
Cathy Brelsford
1 year ago
This is really the crazy world full of madness and stupidity. Please imagine the possible outcomes of this situation. You take your pick.
1. The “boring scenario”: in early 2022, Ukraine agrees to Russia’s demand to stay the same neutrality as Austria in order to avoid the war. The whole world goes on as usual.
2. The “best scenario”: Ukraine wins the war, at the cost of tens of thousands of Ukraine and Russia soldiers lives, millions ordinary Ukraines lost their homes, the whole Ukraine is in shamble. The rest of the world suffers high inflation and food shortage.
3. The “2nd best scenario” is Russia wins the war. Similar outcomes as above, except Russia takes the southeastern part of Ukraine. Ukraine lost large part of her resource rich region and the access to black sea. Pretty screwed.
4. The “worst scenario” is the breaking out of nuclear WW3. Europe becomes a wasteland.
Regrettably so, most readers here seem to glorify 2. ”The best scenario”. I have a strong impression that they don’t actually believe the Ukrainian victory scenario, but choose to go with it in avoidance of reality. Why so..? Possibly because postponing of reality is a well established way of life and thinking. We see a catastrophic course of events approaching but we prefer the ”risk” of trusting any crazy idea we have. Like, defeating Russia once and for all, despite the growing danger and the total irrationality of the winning presuppositions..
Last edited 1 year ago by Konstantinos Stavropoulos
I don’t think either of you seem to be aware of the last 100 year’s history in Europe with Stalin and Hitler. Our inconvenient suffering in terms of standard of living and financial standing pales in comparison to that of the Ukrainians under Stalin, the Jews under Hitler, the Poles under both Hitler and Stalin. Russia has been a blot on the surface of the planet for the last 100 years at least, their citizens permanently brainwashed, their forced movement of other peoples and minorities abhorent, their threats are never ending and it’s just not getting any better. At least scenario 4 would give other species a chance to expand their territories, it has happened in Chernobyl and Pripyat.
How do you know you are not brainwashed? Why do you think the history is so simple, black and white? The Self-righteous and lazy people always thinks that anybody on the opposite side is evildoer. They are our enemies, thus they are also God’s enemies. Oxford historian Peter Frankopan wrote in his ” The Silk Road” that before the war Hilter and his gang had an idea of sending all Jews to Palestine. Maybe the talking of the war makes them abandon the project. Do you know which country was controlling Palestine back then?
I’m fairly sure I’m less brainwashed than 99.99% of the Russian population, although it’s not 99% of Russians who are responsible for Russia’s and the USSR’s policies and downright disregard for human rights over the last 100 or so years. My wife’s first 30 years were spent in communist Poland, her aunts spent their years from 1940-45 in labour camps in Germany and Russia. Just see how Poland has flourished since the mid 90’s. The thing is that the threats will just not cease, irrespective of Putin remaining in power or not. It seems to be a national characteristic to maintain oppression within its realm and hostility towards others both near and far. Do you honestly think the west has any desire to set foot over the Russian border? OK,they have resources but in the near future the planet will be better off for not exhausting these. As for the geopolitical factors in Russia, no other country aside from maybe China would be remotely interested in engaging in the Russian future.
Don’t you think that the communist China is also as flourishing as Poland providing that you have ever visited China? Do you honestly believe the Russians are going to invade the rest of the Europe? I condem war, any war and also any intentions and actions to provoke wars. There is no just war, or winnable war. The biggest loser of war is humanity. We have only one earth to live. Why can’t we be realistic and compassionate towards each other and let our biology to unite us, instead of letting ideology to divide and destroy us.
When you said that Russia is geographically unimportant except to China is so inaccurate. Russia is one of the top energy, fertilizer and grains producers in the world. Have you thought of the consequences for those poor countries that are not involved in this war but have to endure food shortage?
Firstly: a really excellent piece of reporting, much appreciated.
Now for the reply:
Was your number 1 ever an option? I do know that in the peace talks in Turkey this was proposed but later dropped. Unclear why.
It seems possible that a coalition of the US and the Ukrainian far right scuppered the effort: the NATO fighting to the last Ukrainian scenario.
It was also very suspicious when Denis Kireev a negotiator was shot at the beginning of March while “resisting arrest”. Maybe he was actually in favour of peace?
You would ask yourself whether Ukrainians have any says after taking so much money and weapons from US and NATO. It seems that they have been hijacked and have to fight until the “last Ukrainian”. Such a cruel world!
Andrew Gibb
1 year ago
Stocks. Rifles have stocks, not ‘handles’. Picky, picky…
martin logan
1 year ago
Superb war reporting.
Whatever era, and whatever weapons, it’s always about fear and misery–and if your unit is good, knowledge that the people beside you will stand by you.
And the latter is what makes the difference between victory and defeat.
Rachel Taylor
1 year ago
I have not heard the MSM refer to the importance of Starlink. A strange omission.
Joseph Arpaia
1 year ago
“Toxic masculinity”???? I think it is quite the opposite.
To me toxic masculinity occurs when masculine attributes, which many women share, are used to dominate or exploit others instead of protect them.
Putin is showing toxic masculinity, not these courageous men.
Another one missing the intended irony? The phrase was used with a sense of humour in the context of the natural odours arising from a group of men in cramped conditions and lack of washing facilities, not as you’ve misinterpreted it!
Rick Frazier
1 year ago
Mr. Patrikarakos’ experience reminds of the book, “War” written by Sebastian Junger in 2010. Junger followed a platoon in the Korangal Valley of Afghanistan, otherwise known as the Valley of Death. It was a Battle Company platoon. During its tour, Battle Company experienced about 20% of all the combat that was occuring in Afghanistan. To put this in perspective, all NATO troops at the time numbered about 70,000. Battle Company was 150.
It takes guts to get that close to the fighting in order to capture on-the-ground realities. Well done sir.
ARNAUD ALMARIC
1 year ago
What’s gone wrong with the comment system?
22.18.BST.
Last edited 1 year ago by ARNAUD ALMARIC
art howe
1 year ago
Real reporting. Better than anything I’ve read from the war. Keep it up!
Graeme Archer
1 year ago
Outstanding.
Michael Lingens
1 year ago
Terrific piece, thank you
Andrew Sillett
1 year ago
Best bit of war reporting I’ve come across for quite a while. Reminds me of my time in Bosnia
Richard Chapman
1 year ago
Tremendous journalism. That’s all.
Mark Burbidge
1 year ago
That one article was worth my annual sub. Outstanding !
Jane McCarthy
1 year ago
fgbhsrt
Ronnie B
1 year ago
Superb, thank you
Charles Byford
1 year ago
Great war reporting, David
Ian A W Macdonald
1 year ago
I have just paid my first annual subscription to UnHerd (have been a registered member for a long time) – this was because I so appreciated this amazing article on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Keep up the good work! (David Patrikarakos, UnHerd and all you intelligent comment posters!)
Neven Curlin
1 year ago
Why has this article been re-posted? Can’t Patrikarakos cozy up to some more neonaughties, hipster IT specialists and/or Karens, and write a tear-jerking article that proves his earlier triumphant contention that Ukraine is winning the information war?
Come on, Unherd, it can’t be that difficult to continue following the successful herd-formula of ‘Ukraine Wonderful, Russia Evil’.
Last edited 1 year ago by Neven Curlin
Neven Curlin
1 year ago
Why has this article been re-posted? Can’t Patrikarakos cozy up to some more neonaughties, hipster IT specialists and/or Karens, and write a tear-jerking article that proves his earlier triumphant contention that Ukraine is winning the information war?
Come on, Unherd, it can’t be that difficult to continue following the successful herd-formula of ‘Ukraine Wonderful, Russia Evil’.
Last edited 1 year ago by Neven Curlin
Dennis Boylon
1 year ago
They let the US put a bunch of Nazis in charge. Terrible they let that happen. They will be lucky if Russia only takes the South and the East. God bless the Russian armed forces for putting a stop to this evil. NATO and the US need to be knocked down a few pegs
Dennis Boylon
1 year ago
They let the US put a bunch of Nazis in charge. Terrible they let that happen. They will be lucky if Russia only takes the South and the East. God bless the Russian armed forces for putting a stop to this evil. NATO and the US need to be knocked down a few pegs
M. Gatt
1 year ago
Truly discouraging to read such propaganda in Unherd.
kastor ville
1 year ago
Brezea can go and f himself “We are just like Israel”?? So Ukraine is an apartheid state that kills and jails freedom activists and journalists? You get zero support from this American
The war propaganda articles seem to have slowed to a trickle. LOL. Is Ukraine still winning? How many Russian generals are dead now? It is like all the dead “second in command” ISIS leaders from the middle eastern wars. We must have killed at least a 100 second in commanders. Are we up to 100 dead Russian generals yet?
Garlic Crouton
1 year ago
Obama, George Soros, the CIA and Biden overthrew the democratically elected President of Ukraine with the help of the neo-NAZIs they funded and trained and installed the chocolate oligarch in 2014. Prior to that Bush and the CIA launched the Orange Revolution in 2004 to install their puppet who was trained in the US and married to a U.S. state dept official close to the Bush family.
Half of Ukraine is made up of Russian Ukrainians. After the 2014 coup, different parts of eastern Ukraine held a referendum and voted to secede. Eastern Ukraine has been under attack ever since. France, Great Britain, Canada and the US among others have been funding and training and working alongside the neo-NAZI AZOV battalion. France asked Russian and the eastern Ukrainian for sea DPR to allow their experts stuck inside the Avostal steel mill to be allowed to escape. Zelensky has refused to tell his Avostal troops to surrender and has instead order his troops to execute any soldier who wants to or tries to surrender.
Meanwhile politicians, soldiers and civilians and celebrities flock to Ukraine. All they have to do is step foot in Ukraine and they don’t have to pay taxes for that month and they get danger pay and other perks.
Joe Biden could have easily avoided the devastation of Ukraine but he didn’t want that. He wants endless war and the money laundering and kickbacks and graft to continue. He’s a war monger just like John McCain, the Bushes, Obama and the Clintons. Money hungry blood thirsty megalomaniacal psychopaths.
Absolutely outstanding war reporting, David. Keep up the good work.
This was so well written, with such a strong and powerful story.
I have not read anything from Unherd before, but have made an account in order to give you and this story the praise it deserves.
Thank you for risking your life to give us a window into the lives of these heroic brave warriors and telling their story. May they have many many more victories. Slava Ukraini.
Slava Ukraini!
Brilliant David. Just brilliant.
Best Unherd article in a very long time, head and shoulders above a lot of the unimportant rubbish trotted out by some of the more socially aware journalists.
Some socially aware journalists appear to think that they have a right to benefit from pre-moderation and censorship of opinions that they, presumably, disagree with.
I was discussing with another subscriber as to why below the line posts on some articles were being held back for a day or two, or just vanished altogether. – One discussion that we were having reached a farcical state as our posts appeared, vanished, re-appeared, got resent etc. We had to clarify by email.
I suspect that if you need to click on “comment” at the end of an article in order to post a comment, then you are being subjected to pre-moderation.
I’ve just had a long comment on the SNP article disappearing due another comment further up the chain having been censored. The whole thread is gone. It’s happened before a few times. When will Freddy get this censorship rectified?
Hear hear! But this has been going on for many months and most of the ‘old gang’ are now long gone………………sadly.
My posts are being censored.
Thank you so much for this very powerful cameo of life on the Ukrainian front. I would imagine that there is not a single Ukrainian patriot who is not saying “Long live toxic masculinity!”
I might also add that this is what real war correspondents do – they take risks to report from what really is the front line. The author’s courage is both appreciated and admired.
So you didn’t think that perhaps their gender equality wasn’t good enough, let alone world-beating?
What on earth is the point of your comment?
This article puts everything back into perspective. The gender wars seem a little out of touch when you read this. Everything else is just nonsense when you’re fighting for your life and way of existence.
I’ve only recently registered with Unherd, and like others this is my first post. What a brilliant insight into the unrelenting spirit that drives people to defend their families and nation from tyranny.
Lest anyone (else) misinterpret the perhaps tongue-in-cheek quote about “toxic masculinity”, i think its simply meant to reflect that there’s a place in the world for such outright masculinity in defence of freedom. But at the same time, there are women who also fight, perhaps some of them on the front line so they shouldn’t be forgotten. To continue the ironic take on the phrase, perhaps they might be accused of “toxic femininity”!
Nuance and understanding is all, and it was all present in this great article. Well done Unherd, and many thanks to David.
Registered just to add to what’s already been said. Exceptional reporting on exceptional people. Thanks, David.
Terrific article, and hugely provocative on the intellectual level. We really have become soft in the west because we’re constantly making the perfect the enemy of the good. Ukraine may have a lot of “far-right” and “ultra nationalists”, but so what? Are they really worse than a society which physically mutilates its children in the name of gender reassignment or which uses ukrainian women as incubators for surrogate births? We seriously need to rethink our priorities in the west, and we can start with accepting that nobody can have it all and that it’s OK to fight for what IS important.
Well said.
“Barbed wire knots together sky and earth.”
What an opening. I immediately imagined the Ukrainian flag – blue skies above golden fields of wheat – with a coil of razor wire stretched across the horizon where earth meets heaven.
Thanks, David, for the gritty reporting. Keep safe out there …
I thought some of the mass graves were less results of atrocities, and more the standard “bury the dead on either side to avoid disease”. Basic battlefield health policy.
If the Russians aren’t burying their dead and are eating right next to them… yeesh. Just like with HMS Royal Sovereign. What kind of commander fails to teach their troops basic healthcare? Even Eastern militaries do better than that.
H.M.S Royal Sovereign?
Fantastic portrait of these warriors. Feels brutally authentic. Loved the comments on Musk, Johnson, and McCain. Well done, David. More, please…
This is the best article on this website that I have read in ages.
it’s great journalism to tell it how it is, without trying to tell the reader how to interpret it / what to think.
thanks for writing this.
Thank you for this raw insight. It is vital.
“Toxic masculinity” made my day. Thanks for the good work.
A fine look at the front lines of this war. Understandable characters presented with care. Thanks.
Brilliant article.
The Ukranians seem to be masters of creative thinking. Kind of funny sometimes, too.
Do you think the two things go hand in hand?
All propaganda. Check out “The Duran” for the other side.
This is really the crazy world full of madness and stupidity. Please imagine the possible outcomes of this situation. You take your pick.
1. The “boring scenario”: in early 2022, Ukraine agrees to Russia’s demand to stay the same neutrality as Austria in order to avoid the war. The whole world goes on as usual.
2. The “best scenario”: Ukraine wins the war, at the cost of tens of thousands of Ukraine and Russia soldiers lives, millions ordinary Ukraines lost their homes, the whole Ukraine is in shamble. The rest of the world suffers high inflation and food shortage.
3. The “2nd best scenario” is Russia wins the war. Similar outcomes as above, except Russia takes the southeastern part of Ukraine. Ukraine lost large part of her resource rich region and the access to black sea. Pretty screwed.
4. The “worst scenario” is the breaking out of nuclear WW3. Europe becomes a wasteland.
Regrettably so, most readers here seem to glorify 2. ”The best scenario”. I have a strong impression that they don’t actually believe the Ukrainian victory scenario, but choose to go with it in avoidance of reality. Why so..? Possibly because postponing of reality is a well established way of life and thinking. We see a catastrophic course of events approaching but we prefer the ”risk” of trusting any crazy idea we have. Like, defeating Russia once and for all, despite the growing danger and the total irrationality of the winning presuppositions..
I don’t think either of you seem to be aware of the last 100 year’s history in Europe with Stalin and Hitler. Our inconvenient suffering in terms of standard of living and financial standing pales in comparison to that of the Ukrainians under Stalin, the Jews under Hitler, the Poles under both Hitler and Stalin. Russia has been a blot on the surface of the planet for the last 100 years at least, their citizens permanently brainwashed, their forced movement of other peoples and minorities abhorent, their threats are never ending and it’s just not getting any better. At least scenario 4 would give other species a chance to expand their territories, it has happened in Chernobyl and Pripyat.
How do you know you are not brainwashed? Why do you think the history is so simple, black and white? The Self-righteous and lazy people always thinks that anybody on the opposite side is evildoer. They are our enemies, thus they are also God’s enemies. Oxford historian Peter Frankopan wrote in his ” The Silk Road” that before the war Hilter and his gang had an idea of sending all Jews to Palestine. Maybe the talking of the war makes them abandon the project. Do you know which country was controlling Palestine back then?
I’m fairly sure I’m less brainwashed than 99.99% of the Russian population, although it’s not 99% of Russians who are responsible for Russia’s and the USSR’s policies and downright disregard for human rights over the last 100 or so years. My wife’s first 30 years were spent in communist Poland, her aunts spent their years from 1940-45 in labour camps in Germany and Russia. Just see how Poland has flourished since the mid 90’s. The thing is that the threats will just not cease, irrespective of Putin remaining in power or not. It seems to be a national characteristic to maintain oppression within its realm and hostility towards others both near and far. Do you honestly think the west has any desire to set foot over the Russian border? OK,they have resources but in the near future the planet will be better off for not exhausting these. As for the geopolitical factors in Russia, no other country aside from maybe China would be remotely interested in engaging in the Russian future.
Don’t you think that the communist China is also as flourishing as Poland providing that you have ever visited China? Do you honestly believe the Russians are going to invade the rest of the Europe? I condem war, any war and also any intentions and actions to provoke wars. There is no just war, or winnable war. The biggest loser of war is humanity. We have only one earth to live. Why can’t we be realistic and compassionate towards each other and let our biology to unite us, instead of letting ideology to divide and destroy us.
When you said that Russia is geographically unimportant except to China is so inaccurate. Russia is one of the top energy, fertilizer and grains producers in the world. Have you thought of the consequences for those poor countries that are not involved in this war but have to endure food shortage?
Firstly: a really excellent piece of reporting, much appreciated.
Now for the reply:
Was your number 1 ever an option? I do know that in the peace talks in Turkey this was proposed but later dropped. Unclear why.
It seems possible that a coalition of the US and the Ukrainian far right scuppered the effort: the NATO fighting to the last Ukrainian scenario.
It was also very suspicious when Denis Kireev a negotiator was shot at the beginning of March while “resisting arrest”. Maybe he was actually in favour of peace?
You would ask yourself whether Ukrainians have any says after taking so much money and weapons from US and NATO. It seems that they have been hijacked and have to fight until the “last Ukrainian”. Such a cruel world!
Stocks. Rifles have stocks, not ‘handles’. Picky, picky…
Superb war reporting.
Whatever era, and whatever weapons, it’s always about fear and misery–and if your unit is good, knowledge that the people beside you will stand by you.
And the latter is what makes the difference between victory and defeat.
I have not heard the MSM refer to the importance of Starlink. A strange omission.
“Toxic masculinity”???? I think it is quite the opposite.
To me toxic masculinity occurs when masculine attributes, which many women share, are used to dominate or exploit others instead of protect them.
Putin is showing toxic masculinity, not these courageous men.
Another one missing the intended irony? The phrase was used with a sense of humour in the context of the natural odours arising from a group of men in cramped conditions and lack of washing facilities, not as you’ve misinterpreted it!
Mr. Patrikarakos’ experience reminds of the book, “War” written by Sebastian Junger in 2010. Junger followed a platoon in the Korangal Valley of Afghanistan, otherwise known as the Valley of Death. It was a Battle Company platoon. During its tour, Battle Company experienced about 20% of all the combat that was occuring in Afghanistan. To put this in perspective, all NATO troops at the time numbered about 70,000. Battle Company was 150.
It takes guts to get that close to the fighting in order to capture on-the-ground realities. Well done sir.
What’s gone wrong with the comment system?
22.18.BST.
Real reporting. Better than anything I’ve read from the war. Keep it up!
Outstanding.
Terrific piece, thank you
Best bit of war reporting I’ve come across for quite a while. Reminds me of my time in Bosnia
Tremendous journalism. That’s all.
That one article was worth my annual sub. Outstanding !
fgbhsrt
Superb, thank you
Great war reporting, David
I have just paid my first annual subscription to UnHerd (have been a registered member for a long time) – this was because I so appreciated this amazing article on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Keep up the good work! (David Patrikarakos, UnHerd and all you intelligent comment posters!)
Why has this article been re-posted? Can’t Patrikarakos cozy up to some more neonaughties, hipster IT specialists and/or Karens, and write a tear-jerking article that proves his earlier triumphant contention that Ukraine is winning the information war?
Come on, Unherd, it can’t be that difficult to continue following the successful herd-formula of ‘Ukraine Wonderful, Russia Evil’.
Why has this article been re-posted? Can’t Patrikarakos cozy up to some more neonaughties, hipster IT specialists and/or Karens, and write a tear-jerking article that proves his earlier triumphant contention that Ukraine is winning the information war?
Come on, Unherd, it can’t be that difficult to continue following the successful herd-formula of ‘Ukraine Wonderful, Russia Evil’.
They let the US put a bunch of Nazis in charge. Terrible they let that happen. They will be lucky if Russia only takes the South and the East. God bless the Russian armed forces for putting a stop to this evil. NATO and the US need to be knocked down a few pegs
They let the US put a bunch of Nazis in charge. Terrible they let that happen. They will be lucky if Russia only takes the South and the East. God bless the Russian armed forces for putting a stop to this evil. NATO and the US need to be knocked down a few pegs
Truly discouraging to read such propaganda in Unherd.
Brezea can go and f himself “We are just like Israel”?? So Ukraine is an apartheid state that kills and jails freedom activists and journalists? You get zero support from this American
…
The war propaganda articles seem to have slowed to a trickle. LOL. Is Ukraine still winning? How many Russian generals are dead now? It is like all the dead “second in command” ISIS leaders from the middle eastern wars. We must have killed at least a 100 second in commanders. Are we up to 100 dead Russian generals yet?
Obama, George Soros, the CIA and Biden overthrew the democratically elected President of Ukraine with the help of the neo-NAZIs they funded and trained and installed the chocolate oligarch in 2014. Prior to that Bush and the CIA launched the Orange Revolution in 2004 to install their puppet who was trained in the US and married to a U.S. state dept official close to the Bush family.
Half of Ukraine is made up of Russian Ukrainians. After the 2014 coup, different parts of eastern Ukraine held a referendum and voted to secede. Eastern Ukraine has been under attack ever since. France, Great Britain, Canada and the US among others have been funding and training and working alongside the neo-NAZI AZOV battalion. France asked Russian and the eastern Ukrainian for sea DPR to allow their experts stuck inside the Avostal steel mill to be allowed to escape. Zelensky has refused to tell his Avostal troops to surrender and has instead order his troops to execute any soldier who wants to or tries to surrender.
Meanwhile politicians, soldiers and civilians and celebrities flock to Ukraine. All they have to do is step foot in Ukraine and they don’t have to pay taxes for that month and they get danger pay and other perks.
Joe Biden could have easily avoided the devastation of Ukraine but he didn’t want that. He wants endless war and the money laundering and kickbacks and graft to continue. He’s a war monger just like John McCain, the Bushes, Obama and the Clintons. Money hungry blood thirsty megalomaniacal psychopaths.