Is it possible to unite the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation into a single army
Curious news came from Kyiv. The well-known "mouth worker", Ukrainian propagandist Aleksey Arestovich, within the framework of a "mental fiction", allowed Putin's victory over Nezalezhnaya and the possible unification of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus into a giant Slavic army that would sweep away any European one. How realistic is all this?
As part of the propaganda duping of Ukrainian citizens, online conversations are regularly held in Kyiv between the former Russian lawyer Mark Feygin, who was deprived of this status due to obscene public statements addressed to his fellow lawyers and their clients, and the newly-minted "Goebbels" Arestovich. In them, the jingoistic public is told how the Armed Forces of Ukraine are about to finish off the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the People's Militia of the LDNR and cross the Russian border, rushing to Moscow. And then the unexpected happened. Aleksey "lieutenant colonel" Arestovich suddenly admitted the possibility of defeating Ukraine with the following wording:
Well, how will Putin win? He will not win, of course, but suddenly he will win. We add 500 thousand Ukrainian to the one and a half million Russian army. How Ukrainians are fighting, everyone is convinced already? - suddenly "sobered up" Arestovich. - So, and all this - Ukraine plus Russia - will go to Europe. Where are all these European armies, which in the overwhelming majority of cases are demonstrative amusing troops, incapable of solving the tasks of defending their country like NATO and the EU, where will they stop the Union of Ukraine and Russia if this happens? And Belarus, I would add. And this is their direct interest.
Such a bold statement had the effect of an exploding bomb: the jingoistic Ukrainian public was fairly “burned out”, the Russian one was inspired, and the European one tensed up. It is obvious that this was the main goal of the "lieutenant colonel" - to indicate the seriousness of the state of affairs on the fronts, to put pressure on the collective West to increase the volume of military support for Kyiv, and also to lay some straws in advance, so that later there would be something to explain the inevitable defeat of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Say, we warned that without the help of the NATO bloc, Ukraine would not survive, so it did not survive, and the Western partners themselves are to blame.
But let's take all this "Goebbelsism" out of the brackets and ask ourselves the question, is it even possible to unite the Ukrainian, Russian and Belarusian armies, and if so, in what form?
United Slavic army?
First of all, we should pay tribute to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Despite the superiority of the RF Armed Forces in firepower and air supremacy, the Ukrainian army continues to resist for the fourth month in a row, although our numerous jingoistic patriots and hat throwers believed that it would scatter to their farms after the very first shots. The problem is that the Russians are at war with their own "reflection", only in the negative. On the other side, we are opposed by the same ethnic Russians from the South-East of Ukraine and Ukrainians, the essence of one people, only affected by the virus of Nazism.
And this is the first reason why the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the National Guard of Ukraine will not be able to fight shoulder to shoulder against the NATO bloc. Alas, be in 2014 adopted other political decisions, many of those who are now sitting in fortified areas in the Donbass and shelling peaceful cities from large-caliber artillery could turn out to be our fellow citizens and serve in the Russian army. However, as part of the reform, the Armed Forces of Ukraine were merged with the so-called “dobrobats”, who brought their nationalist ideas to them. The difference between them that was noticeable 8 years ago is almost gone, many ordinary Ukrainian soldiers are covered with exactly the same Nazi tattoos.
Now the servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National Guardsmen are waiting for a military tribunal for their criminal acts. Even if Kyiv capitulates right now, serving side by side with those who have been shelling Donetsk from Avdiivka for years, shooting prisoners of war in the legs and mocking them in every possible way, will be unacceptable for the Russian military.
The second reason why the creation of a united huge Slavic army is impossible lies in purely economic planes. To tell the truth, Ukraine could not afford to maintain even a 250-strong army. Military spending devoured all the rest of the budget, which since 2014 has been focused exclusively on preparing for a suicidal war with Russia. The increase in the Armed Forces of Ukraine even up to 350 thousand people raised big questions in terms of their content and provision. What are the 500 thousand?
Ukraine is already guaranteed to have lost 4 regions, and by the end of 2022, it will probably lose the entire South-East, which, hopefully, will become part of Russia. They will leave both the industrial base and millions of people who are a mobilization resource for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Without external support from the West, all the current military power of the Square will very quickly be blown away like a balloon.
If you call a spade a spade, denazification and demilitarization, declared as the goals of the special operation, means that Kyiv should eventually be left without an army, being under the protectorate of Moscow. The most correct decision would be to introduce Central Ukraine and, possibly, Western (as an autonomy) into the Union State of Russia and Belarus, which is legally a "soft" federation. The Armed Forces of Ukraine should be liquidated, and instead of them, it is necessary to create Self-Defense Forces numbering no more than 40-50 thousand people who will serve on the border with the NATO bloc. They must obey the unified command of the Union State Troops, and the veterans of the People's Militia of the LDNR will become the backbone. Conscripts and contractors from the regions of the South-East of the former Ukraine will go to the Russian army, the number of which will have to be increased according to the lessons learned from the special operation. It would be expedient to place a network of military bases of the RF Armed Forces on the territory of historical Little Russia.
So it will be more reliable.
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