Backstabbing Mythology Takes Shape
One of the causes of the Second World War was the idea that the German Army was winning on the western front. It was incompetence from the high command and politicians that sold the German soldier. This big lie festered and developed. It was one of the grievances that led to the rise of Adolph Hitler.
We all should remember that Hitler was a Corporal in the German army. He was under chemical attack. He survived the war and embraced this big lie. As they say, the rest is history.
The same is starting to take shape on telegram, abs the author is a former Russian military officer who participated in the 2014 invasion. He is Igor Girkin, who took Berdyansk with some of his friends in the opening hours of that operation.
Over the last few days, he’s posted on Telegram his criticism of the high command. Some are basic military doctrine. Russia, all threats to the side, has not taken out rail junctions in the west of Ukraine. This is allowing Ukraine to transport NATO weapons with some ease.
But some have turned dark and gone into how the Russian command refuses to do a general mobilization, or even supply the troops. He is not just telling his readers that this new offensive in the Donbas is going to fail, but more significantly that while Russia retreated from the field in the northern front: “Ukraine is in its…