It was difficult to decide upon the title but “Making the Best of a Bad Situation: Recruiting Cannon Fodder for the Ukrainian Army” pretty much gives an oversight of what is now the most critical problem facing Ukraine, notwithstanding the constant ongoing issues such as lack of appropriate weapons, rampant corruption, untrained troops, lack of freedom of speech and apparent knowledge that the conflict with Russia is not winnable.

To be blunt, even if there were a victory in some sense, through the sort of mental gymnastics that the rapidly failing western hegemony has become infamous for, it still wouldn’t mean restoring Ukraine to its pre-2014 borders, as there would be set conditions as stipulated by the Russian Federation.

It is also becoming clear that the closed ranks of Western resolve, e.g., to support Ukraine unconditionally, no matter what, and it does not matter how long it will take, is starting to wear very thin indeed, in the face of both the staggering cost, and the atrophied state of western military manufacturing capability.

As we can already see from the results of the recent European elections, this policy has failed, the populace is moving further to the right, anti-war and [most likely] this reflects a lack of resolve from the onset. It should have been obvious from the “get go”. The actual situation now faced by Old Europe has evolved into more political rhetoric than anything with semblance of a Churchill like doctrine as to how and where they would fight against Russia.

“We Shall Fight On The Beaches” was a speech delivered by the Churchill as Prime Minister to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom on June 4th 1940.

It is ironic that the country that was able to deceive the same population that was so “gung ho” infighting for “Slava Ukraina” is now facing a human resource crisis in its ranks; some go so far as to claim that there arestill not enough warm bodies to keep feeding into the proverbial meat grinder as cannon fodder. Already the level of recruits has been severely diminished, and is definitely akin to scraping the bottom of the barrel, as already........

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