In order to win the war, we need people

There is a war of genocide against us. Its true goals were formulated by my former friend, forgive me, and now Russia's leading schizo-milblogger Anya Dolgarova: to kill all those who resist and raise their children as Russians.

This formulation has been tested in practice. This is exactly what they are doing in the occupied territories. The bottom line is this.

We can still lose this war. At the cost of extraordinary efforts and the help of our partners, we have managed to reduce the likelihood of this situation, but not to zero. We can also find ourselves in a situation where the conflict will be semi-frozen for most of our lives. In the first case, the choice will be to run away or die. In the second, the option of "living in poverty and fear" will be added.

To win the war, we need people. Weapons and money are given to us (if you think that as soon as the military enlistment office pulls you out of the economy, it will turn to despair and sadness, this is not quite true).

“And here is a problem that is not obvious to civilians. We need people not only to replace the dead and wounded. We also need people so that there is at least an imaginary possibility of rotation for those who have been fighting for two years now.”

War is exhausting. Morally and medically. People cannot fight for years. You just see them changing before your eyes, like in the movie called Come and See where the main character goes from a child to an old man in a day.

This can be prevented by rotation. I'm not even talking about such happiness as demobilization, but if people are at least given a sufficient period of rest, it will be easier.

They don't have such intervals. They really melt before your eyes, you can see the scenery through them. And there is no reason to do so, because they are now holding up the sky.

And the people who could pick it up are busy. They are holding “alternative fronts.”

“And this is what really breaks all the molds. It's as if a person next to you was carrying stones 20 hours a day, seven days a week, and others were passing by and rejoicing that all their shifts were dumped on one person on duty.”

And as if all the arguments have some relation to reality. Flat feet, pacifism, "I don't know how", value in other professions, and difficult life circumstances. And even "not everyone should go to war" - okay, not everyone, but why not you?

I'm not even blaming you now. I'm just explaining why all these excuses for those who see the situation from both sides sound like, I don't know... As if three hoodlums are raping a girl, one man is trying to drive them away with a piece of brick, and there is a whole bus stop of citizens nearby, and everyone has their own extremely serious and urgent reasons not to intervene. Something like that.

You may not agree with this, but you have to understand it.

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About the author: Viktor Trehubov, Ukrainian journalist, blogger, publicist and public and political figure

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