Vi har tydligen alla helt missuppfattat vad syftet är med den ukrainska offensiven eller deras insatser för övrigt. Det handlar bara om psykologi och inte faktiskt militärt besegra den ryska armén helt och hållet.
Självaste Anne Applebaum har skrivit om narrativet:
Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Has Begun. Its Goals Are Not Merely Military.
Kyiv needs to show Russians that the war is not worth fighting.
https://archive.ph/PjT7u
Men vad bra! Då vet vi!
Självaste Anne Applebaum har skrivit om narrativet:
Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Has Begun. Its Goals Are Not Merely Military.
Kyiv needs to show Russians that the war is not worth fighting.
/.../https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/06/ukraine-counteroffensive-russia-goals/674333/
This counteroffensive will also look different from the D-Day movies because Ukraine’s goals are not merely military. Yes, Ukrainian troops are probing Russian defenses up and down the 1,000-kilometer front line. Yes, the Ukrainians are conducting “shaping operations,” hitting ammunition dumps and other targets behind Russian lines. Yes, Ukraine wants to take back territory lost since February 2022, as well as territory lost in 2014. Yes, we know the Ukrainians can do it, because they’ve done it before. They fought the Russians out of northern Ukraine at the very beginning of the war. They recaptured Russian-held parts of the Kharkiv district in September, and the city of Kherson a couple of months later.
But in addition to taking back land, they are also conducting a sort of psychological shaping operation: They have to convince the Russian elite that the war was a mistake and that Russia can’t win it, not in the short term and not in the long term, either. Toward this end, they are also seeking to convince ordinary Russians that they aren’t as safe as they thought, that the war is nearer to their own homes than they believed, and that President Vladimir Putin isn’t as wise as they imagined. And the Ukrainians have to do all of this without a full-scale invasion of Russia, without occupying Moscow, and without a spectacular Russian surrender in Red Square.
https://archive.ph/PjT7u
Men vad bra! Då vet vi!
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