It would not have taken the totalitarian steamroller Sergey Lavrov to know what Moscow was up to. According to the most recent words of the Russian foreign minister, even the last doubter should now realize what the Kremlin is about: he wants to wipe out Ukraine as an independent state and destroy the freely elected government.
The goal of Ukraine and the West must be to prevent this project by all means. Every weapon – from bazookas to combat drones, from tanks to howitzers – serves this purpose. For this reason it is necessary not to let up on military supplies and to remedy the situation as quickly as possible where things are faltering.
All Kyiv and its allies can achieve is to discourage the thug from hitting and make it impossible for him to exploit their inferiority and apparent weaknesses into their submission. If this succeeds, Moscow would be forced to negotiate and make concessions. So far, Ukraine has played bravely and wisely exploited the mistakes made by Moscow.
Moreover, Kyiv is increasingly turning to the strategy of guerrilla warfare. This means: stubbornly avoiding every decision as long as the enemy is powerful and, if necessary, giving up areas such as in the Donbass, but not accepting any decision as final. To paraphrase Mao Tse-tung, one of the fathers of guerrilla tactics: “Appear weak when you are strong, and appear strong when you are weak.”
The essence of guerrilla warfare is to weaken the enemy by holding out, and never to wage the kind of war that the enemy expects. This requires long-suffering and the understanding that such a struggle takes time, a lot of time, a hard, terrible, bitter time of war. However, if everything goes according to plan, this will sooner or later benefit the Ukrainians. Why? The guerrilla tactics answer that too: Because the locals can’t get off in the next military plane.
Germany blocks Ukraine’s export requests for heavy weapons. Lastly also for purely defensive air defense systems. Tanks from Germany could make an important difference, especially in this phase of the war, says WELT author Gregor Schwing.
Source: WORLD