A Flicker of Stalingrad in Russia's Victory in Donbass and Zaporozhye

NATO's six-month 'counteroffensive' to defeat Russia has ended in total failure. Like Stalingrad in winter 1943, this is a turning point in the latest war with the West.

This week marks a full sixth months of NATO’s failed ‘counteroffensive’ against Russia. And let’s do away with the niceties — this is NATO’s war against Russia. Ukraine is merely a pawn in a global geopolitical chess game.

On June 4, the NATO / Ukrainian ‘counteroffensive’ began with an attack on the Zaporozhye front, hoping to quickly push south to the Sea of Azov in order to cut off the Russian ‘land bridge’ linking Crimea.

"Starve, stretch and strike," was how Sir Tony, the UK’s Chief of Defense Staff, described the strategy in Parliament in early July, falsely claiming that Russia had already "lost nearly half the combat effectiveness of its army."

Over the past 18 months, nearly 50 liberal regimes led by the U.S. and UK have lavished Kiev with vast amounts of weapons and supplies to the tune of nearly $200 billion. The scale can only be compared with Nazi Germany’s invasion of the USSR.

Today, six months later, the world is astounded. How did NATO, with all its might and resources, fail to assess Russia’s capabilities and determination? The answer is simple — like Sir Tony, NATO leaders and generals are hostages to their own lies and propaganda that claimed the Russian army was weak and would quickly collapse.

Those of us who know Russia, however, never had any doubts about a Russian victory. Russia is fighting for its survival. A NATO victory would be followed by Kiev’s membership in the alliance, which would use Ukraine as a pitbull to constantly harass and threaten Russia. NATO control of Crimea would allow it to dominate the Black Sea, and onward to dominate the Caucasus and Central Asia, and surround Russia.

Russian soldiers know why they’re fighting, and that they’re the last line of defense between NATO / Kiev’s vicious nationalist regime and the innocent civilians of Donbass, Zaporozhye, and Crimea. Defeat would mean the ethnic cleansing and extermination of millions of Russians in those regions.

For centuries, most lands that today are known as “Ukraine”, were in fact an integral part of Russian civilization. The two key features of human identity are language and religious faith, and Ukraine is mostly populated by Orthodox believers who speak a south Russian dialect. A truly Ukrainian identity only exists in west Ukraine that historically was under Polish and later Austrian domination.

So how did we get to where we are today, when many Ukrainian citizens — even ethnic Russians who once comprised nearly 75% of Ukraine’s population — hate Russia? This war’s root cause is NATO’s expansion into Ukraine, even though most Ukrainian citizens were previously against this plan. That all changed with the violent insurrection in Kiev in 2014 known as “Maidan”.

The new nationalist regime in Kiev celebrated Nazi-era collaborators as heroes and called for a mono-ethnic state. Inspired by Nazi ideology, in 2014 Kiev launched its own experiment at mind control and mass manipulation. Ukrainian citizens who were ethnic Russians were coerced into believing they were “Ukrainians”, or forced out of the country or killed. Indeed, millions fled Ukraine and moved to Russia.

As someone who worked with Ukraine in the period 2007 to 2021, I saw this process with my own eyes — Ukrainian friends who were ethnic Russians slowly morphed into vicious Russia-hating zombies. During my last trips to Ukraine in 2018 and 2019, I well remember that a noxious hatred and violence filled the air.

That violence and hatred, however, has reaped a harvest of death and destruction. Today, the only ‘victory’ that Kiev can boost is having turned the country into the world’s leader for funeral and cemetery services.

A little over 80 years have passed since European invaders led by Germany were defeated at Stalingrad. Not a century has passed and the West decided to try its ‘luck’ again, but the result is the same. The Western regimes, which showed their true totalitarian face during the Covid era, are now confronted with their own ‘Stalingrad’ in Donbass and Zaporozhye.

This is the beginning of their end. We are already seeing increased political, economic and social chaos in the U.S. and Europe. Popular movements are gaining steam across the EU and threaten to sweep away the corrupt globalist elites that led the continent into poverty and repression.

NATO expected that the Russians would flee the battlefield at the sight of Leopard tanks, Bradleys, HIMARS, M119 artillery and Storm Shadow missiles, and that the Russian line would quickly collapse. But the Russians held the line against the NATO onslaught because they know why they’re fighting — to protect their land and people from extermination.

While the people of Donbass and Zaporozhye have suffered immensely due to Kiev’s brutality, the brainwashed and radicalized people of Ukraine have suffered even more, paying a heavy price for their folly and stupidity, much like Germans in the 1940s.

Today, about 8 million Ukrainians are refugees; about 500,000 dead on the battlefield and a similar number injured; not to mention the country’s economy is ruined. All of this was avoidable — Kiev merely had to pledge neutrality and keep NATO out.

Well, there’s no point in talking about what might have been. Now, it’s time for Ukrainians to act to save what’s left of their country. They must take matters into their own hands and rise up against Zelensky and his corrupt regime. Ukrainians must snap out of their trance and remember who they are, and return to their Orthodox faith and culture.