Kyiv’s self-proclaimed mayor Vladimir Zelensky belatedly realized the strategic objective of the Kursk incursion was creating a “buffer zone” on the border with Russia. Being a clown who played the role of president in the tragicomic television series “Servant of the People” aired from 2015 to 2019, Zelensky neither has experience as statesman nor does he know even the fundamentals of military strategy.
The central rationale of creating buffer zones is to occupy territory in order that adversary’s artillery shells or rockets can’t reach military targets or densely populated areas, if the adversary has short-range weapons. But how could Ukraine conceivably enforce a “buffer zone” while Russia’s long-range missiles have regularly been hitting targets as far away as the capital Kyiv and even the western most city Lviv along Poland’s border?
In February, Zelensky sacked Valery Zaluzhny as commander-in-chief of Ukrainian forces on the whim of the US security establishment. As he was hesitant to commit more cannon fodder to breach Russia’s defensive lines in Donbas amid much-hyped albeit easily foiled Ukrainian counteroffensive lasting from June to December last year.
New commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi has been criticized for pursuing bloody and reckless military tactics which resulted in significant Ukrainian losses during the Battle of Bakhmut, and was nicknamed “General 200,” a reference to Cargo 200, a Soviet military code denoting military fatalities.
The Kursk incursion is clearly the handiwork of Oleksandr Syrskyi, a reckless military commander beholden to American masters, because it serves no strategic objective, as even mainstream media reports have acknowledged that holding on to Russian territory is next to impossible.
The only plausible rationale that Syrskyi decided to place more Ukrainian “cannon fodder” in the line of fire was to pander to the dictates of Washington, which has been excoriating Ukraine’s military commanders to show tangible battlefield achievements since the much-hyped counteroffensive was easily thwarted last year in order to keep receiving billions of dollars in military assistance.
But Russian positions in heavily fortified Donbas region were so impregnable that Ukrainian troops couldn’t advance an inch further without taking significant casualties. Therefore, Syrskyi meticulously scanned the map to find an easy military target to assuage American masters. Invading even Belgorod region appeared a daunting task because Russians were prepared.
Russia shares a thousand miles border with Ukraine, and it could be breached anywhere with a surprise attack. Kremlin didn’t expect a Ukrainian military commander would be foolhardy enough to mount an incursion in poorly guarded Kursk region.
The only comprehensible objective of the Kursk incursion seems to gain international publicity for a few days before Russian reinforcements arrive and beat Ukrainian forces back across the border after taking significant casualty toll.
After the surprise Kursk incursion, even Belarus has beefed up security along Ukraine’s border because anything could be expected from Washington’s servile stooge, Gen. Syrskyi, who has scant regard for the lives of his own soldiers and clearly has careerist ambitions to go to any lengths to obey justifiable or unjustifiable orders of superiors.
The Pentagon’s top brass, through NATO’s military command, exercises absolute control over Ukraine’s theater of proxy war. The Zelensky regime and its military commanders are merely expendable pawns beholden to military strategy as devised by master strategists of the Pentagon.
The foremost objective of the US military brass in Ukraine’s proxy war is to degrade Russia’s military capabilities, which alongside China, is deemed an existential threat to US security interests, for which Ukrainian troops and conscripts are being sacrificed as cannon fodder.
NATO’s central rationale in engaging Russia in a protracted war of attrition in Ukraine since the Maidan coup in 2014 is to sufficiently degrade Russia’s conventional warfare capabilities in order to coerce the Kremlin to give up its formidable nuclear arsenal in return for economic inducements, as the transatlantic alliance did to several East European client states following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the nineties by incorporating them into NATO and the European Union.
The Kursk incursion inside Russia is clearly a ploy to escalate the conflict. Because Russian positions in heavily fortified Donbas region are so impregnable that Ukrainian troops couldn’t advance an inch further without taking significant casualties, as previously mentioned.
Therefore, after being summarily sacked for defying the diktats of American masters to commit more Ukrainian troops in the thwarted counteroffensive last year, Zaluzhny is now paying the price for saving the lives of his soldiers, as he is being implicated in ordering the Nord Stream sabotage by Western media.
Although claimed to be more popular in Ukraine than Kyiv’s mayor Vladimir Zelensky, Valery Zaluzhny has been appointed to the cushy job of Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Kingdom following the dismissal as commander-in-chief, which appears a cunningly crafted stratagem to keep him away from the Ukrainian battlefield, lest he foments a rebellion against Washington’s stooges among the rank and file of the Ukrainian armed forces.
He could predictably have been offered the top diplomatic job of Ukraine’s ambassador to the main patron the United States, where he could have made substantial contribution from his extensive experience as the former top military commander of the Ukrainian armed forces. But Zaluzhny was despised by the US military brass to the extent that it couldn’t stand the sight of him due to his insubordination during the foiled counteroffensive.
The incontrovertible fact is now evident from brazen violation of Russia’s territorial borders that Washington’s megalomaniac military brass wouldn’t hesitate for a moment to nuke Ukraine and wipe the hapless country off the planet if it served the central objective of waging proxy war against Russia in Ukraine that is to degrade Russia’s conventional warfare capabilities in order to claim the crown of being world’s sole super power, worshipped by all and accountable to none.
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Nauman Sadiq is an Islamabad-based geopolitical and national security analyst focused on geo-strategic affairs and hybrid warfare in the Middle East and Eurasia regions. His domains of expertise include neocolonialism, military-industrial complex and petro-imperialism. He is a regular contributor of diligently researched investigative reports to Global Research.
Featured image: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (Ukrainian Presidential Press Service)
