Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su

Kursk, Kharkov and Belgorod, Russian cities that are back in the news, just as they were this time 80 years ago when Manstein, Model, Hauser and Guderian, the cream of the Wehrmacht’s High Command, slugged it out with their Red Army equivalents, before seeing their forces battered there and, shortly afterwards, mauled beyond hope of redemption in Western Ukraine as well.

Manstein, the architect of the Wehrmacht’s victory in the Third Battle of Kharkov, was, like Napoleon at Austerlitz, the master of the counter-attack but, also like Napoleon at Austerlitz, he had the tools at hand to get the job done. In his case, those tools consisted of SS divisions Das Reich and Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, which crashed into the Red Army’s flank and put them on the ropes.

Whereas Manstein was an operational genius, who had the men at hand to do what was required of him, the same cannot be said of Ukraine’s High Command, who recently sent their best soldiers to their doom in Kursk for no hope of a strategic, operational or even tactical advantage.

Because those Ukrainians and the Russian prisoners they took are stuck in Kursk with no hope of escape or reinforcements, the rank stupidity of those Ukrainians generals, who placed their men’s necks into a Russian noose, knows few precedents. Having allowed the Ukrainians have their day in the Kursk sun, the Russian Army will hunt them down, just as their great grandfathers hunted down the 7,000 or so SS stragglers, who did not surrender alongside Paulus at Stalingrad.

Although that is a particularly high price for Zelensky to pay for a few meaningless headlines in NATO’s press, there is one very important analogy to the trials Manstein faced, when he subsequently tried to establish a defensive line in Western Ukraine for the Red Army juggernaut heading his way. Instead of being let to his own considerable devices to stem the Red Army tide, Manstein and his fellow Prussian field marshals had to waste valuable time and resources dealing with the non-stop interference of Herr Hitler, the petty Bohemian corporal with the same psycho-sexual neuroses we see in Kiev’s cross-dressing, coke-sniffing Zelensky, who has personally claimed credit for the Kursk debacle.

The situation, as I write, is that the Russian Army continues not only to grind down their Ukrainian counter-parts but to undermine their key defensive lines at Pokrovsk and Niu-York. When the Ukrainian lines collapse there, as they will later this month, the Ukrainians, deprived of their strategic reserves wantonly sacrificed in Kursk, will be in headlong retreat, but with no Manstein or Model to stem the Russian advances.

This is not to deny Ukraine the right to a counter attack but it is to say that such decisions should be the preserve of their competent generals, not of cross-dressing Zelensky or the desk generals he answers to in NATO’s Ramstein air base who, like him, have no real skin in the game.

Although Kursk will not be the end of this grizzly show, the end result of a Russian victory has already been determined, just as it was with Kursk in 1943. Only days prior to Herr Hitler blowing his brains out, Marshal Ferdinand Schörner‘s 12th Wehrmacht Army were able to inflict catastrophic casualties on the Poles at the Battle of Bautzen and it was that same month of April 1945 that the Americans suffered their highest fatalities of the European war at the hands of the Wehrmacht, who felt they still had to fight on.

Also in April 1945, de Gaulle, not wanting to be upstaged in the division of spoils which would follow Germany’s surrender, launched a mini-D-Day attack on the isolated Royan pocket, which by any yardstick was a horrendous war crime not only because of the 1,500 French citizens the Yanks wantonly incinerated there but because Germany’s unconditional surrender was known to be only days away.

Nor is any of this to deny tactical options to Zelensky’s men. One may think of Otto Szorzeny, Hitler’s favourite soldier, who sprang Mussolini from his mountain prison, who “almost” captured Tito, who kept Hungary in the war by kidnapping Horthy’s son, who is credited with a string of other spectaculars and who Churchill coldly described as the most dangerous man in Europe but who did not affect the final outcome one single iota.

Prussian field marshals do not mutiny

Preussische Feldmarschälle meutern nicht, Prussian field marshals do not mutiny. Such, by some accounts, was Manstein’s famous retort when the July conspirators asked him to join their plot to remove the Hitler millstone from around the neck of the German people. Whatever about the misplaced sense of loyalty Prussia’s field marshals felt towards the Bohemian corporal, the fact is far too many German soldiers and civilians died between July 20 1944 and 30 April 1945 when Hitler exited the stage for Manstein’s claim to hold moral water. Though Hitler is gone, Zelensky is not and genuinely patriotic Ukrainians should be plotting day and night on how to remove him and all like him from the chessboard.

Russia Today reports that the UN wants to access Kursk to take a few notes on alleged Ukrainian war crimes in Kursk. Russia, in my opinion, should politely tell the UN to take their sorry asses to Palestine or Syria, and to return to Russia and to Kursk only when they have achieved something tangible from those NATO crime scenes that the Russian government can approve of. As regards Kursk, Russia should tell the UN that Russia will deal with that matter in much the same way their forefathers dealt with Manstein’s less fortunate men.

As for the high-heeled Zelensky, much like the Third Reich’s Goebbels government, he thinks he is in some sort of a video game, an alternative Karl May Hollywood world, where Ukraine’s Otto Skorzenys and John Rambos can extricate themselves from Kursk, carry the day in Manstein’s old stomping grounds of Kursk, Kharkov and Belgorod and perhaps even make a last stand in the Carpathians, Ukraine’s equivalent of the Alps the Nazis planned to make their Wagnerian exit from.

Just as with the Third Reich’s exit, so also will the demise of Ukraine’s puppet Reich not be cinematic, no matter how many cut price Mansteins, Skorzenys and Hausers they may think they have. The best the Ukrainians can now do is to eliminate those, like Zelensky, who visited this nightmare upon them, cede ground and buffer zones around Kursk and Belgorod to Russia, kick BlackRock, Gates and the other carpetbaggers out of western Ukraine and start, against all the odds, to inch their way back to some modicum of normality, where they are at peace with both the world and themselves.

NATO, who have used and abused Ukraine in the most despicable and unspeakable ways, care no more about Ukraine’s welfare than do the American and Swiss portfolio managers, who manage Zelensky’s vast property portfolios. Because Ukraine, like Germany in April 1945, has no hope of prevailing, it must now go into survival mode by eliminating those like Zelensky, who have led them into the abyss. Although it is as easy for me to type that as it is as difficult for them to achieve it, Ukraine, which is now at Germany’s July ’44 moment, will soon be at Berlin’s April ’45 moment unless they cut Zelensky and all his fellow parasites loose. That is their major problem and, whether they fully like it or not, Russia’s armed forces are a very large part of their solution to rescuing them from their self-imposed hell. They voted for Zelensky and they got hell, without the option of voting their way out of the trap NATO led them into. With voting no longer an option and heroic last stand delusions of Zelensky’s drug-addled mind a non-starter, they must begin to surrender, to neutralise their officers and to do all they can do to extract themselves and their families from Zelensky’s money making scam.