As the Ukrainian civil war draws to a close, the veil of censorship the Kiev regime has imposed on the world is starting to lift. Slowly, the damage caused by the so called Ukrainian nationalists and their insane war is becoming apparent, and the extent of it is shocking. The regime has lied about their causalities since the beginning of the war, but now the situation has become so dire that even they can no longer conceal the truth. After burning through an entire generation of it’s youth, the Kiev regime is now forced to conscript old men, women and the disabled in a desperate attempt to please their masters in the west.
After all, it was the west who forced Ukraine to deny a generous peace agreement from Russia which would have allowed them to keep all their territory in exchange for neutrality. After Boris Johnson’s emergency flight to Kiev to kill the deal, Ukrainian intelligence liquidated Zelensky’s close friend and hand picked negotiator, Denis Kireev, just to make sure the regime knew NATO’s opinion on the deal. He was shot dead in the back of a SBU owned car and dumped into the street. Despite the gravity of this situation, no investigation was ever attempted. While the SBU later called him a traitor, the regime issued statements calling Kireev a hero mere hours before his murder and he was buried with full state honors.
From that moment on, the Ukrainian people fought and died for NATO, an alliance which will not allow them to join, rather than for themselves or their nation. Once we understand this, the strategy becomes clear. NATO never wanted a free or independent Ukraine, but rather a festering wound on the side of Russia. In order to do that, NATO needs the war to continue as long as it can, regardless of the cost to Ukraine and it’s people. The only value Ukraine holds to the “rules based international order” is cannon fodder, dying in sodden trenches so NATO’s troops don’t have to.
Unfortunately, the war has now progressed beyond all reason. The chances of the Kiev regime ever winning the war were remote at best, but now the situation has progressed to a point where the future of Ukraine is threatened. Just like they did once before, the Ukrainian nationalists have bled the Ukrainian nation almost to the point of collapse.
Those with the opportunity and the means to seize it left the country. According to the United Nations, there are currently 6,338,600 Ukrainian refugees living abroad. This is roughly 16% of Ukraine’s pre-war population of 37 million, itself a reduction of over a quarter of Ukraine’s 1991 population. While the nationalists assume that the refugees will come back, they base their assumption on the fantasy of Ukrainian victory.
In reality, the refugees have little reason to return to the shattered remnants of their war torn country. This leaves Ukraine with a serious problem, as 77% of the refugees have a tertiary education, creating a threat of brain drain which will haunt Ukraine for generations. Once again, while Ukraine suffers, it’s “allies” in the west will benefit from the influx of cheap, educated labor which they can exploit for profit just as their ancestors did in the 1940s. Much of the wealth of the German bourgeoisie was built off the enslavement of the Soviet people, including Ukrainians. The so called Ostarbeiter program kidnapped and enslaved over 2 million Ukrainians, who were forced to work jobs ranging from nannies and secretaries to miners and explosives assembly.
The process has already begun. Countries like Poland and Germany happily tout the economic benefits of mass Ukrainian immigration to help plug holes in their labor markets, essentially weaponizing desperate Ukrainian workers against their own working class. This further exacerbates the economic shocks which have struck Europe after the war and already boiled over into widespread economic blockades of Ukraine by European truckers.
The demographics of Ukraine will suffer a permanent disruption from this war. As martial law prevents any 18-60 year old man without enough money for a bribe from leaving the country, the vast majority of Ukrainian refugees are women and children. This means that the next generation of Ukrainians will be born abroad, further lowering the population growth in a nation already facing a critical decline. As we have already seen from the disasters of the 1990, these disruptions can take generations to overcome.
Analysis of the numbers shows a dire picture. From 2014 until today, the population of Ukraine has been nearly halved thanks to the suicidal policies of the United States and their “nationalist” pawns in Bankova. There can be no clearer demonstration of the true nature of Ukrainian nationalism than this. Ukrainian “nationalists” have never fought for a Ukrainian nation, but rather a Galician reich, cleansed of it’s native people and prepared for exploitation by Western capital.
According to the NATO aligned Wilson Center and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the population of Ukraine is set to decline until at least 2035 and even these numbers assume, with the typical magical thinking common to the Banderites and their masters, that the Kiev regime will miraculously win the war, it’s refugees will return and they will re-integrate the 10 million people now living in Russia. This scenario is so unlikely that even NATO propagandists now admit that Ukraine will not reclaim it’s former territory. Therefore, we can safely remove another ten million people from these projected numbers at a bare minimum.
What this means is that our best case scenario is a Ukraine with fewer than 25 million people in 2024, roughly half it’s population in 1991. Even for Ukraine, a land which has been conquered and re-conquered beyond counting, this is unprecedented. Not even Hitler could cause this level of devastation to Ukraine. In 1945, after nearly three decades of brutal war culminating in the largest and deadliest conflict in the history of the world, the population of the Ukrainian SSR was 27.5 million. Once again, where Hitler failed, his successors in NATO have succeeded.
Even these staggering numbers do not show the full cost of this war. Often in war, the living pity the dead. Beyond the millions who have died or left the country, orders of magnitude more will suffer from long term injuries and traumas caused by the war. One of the few industries in Ukraine which has grown after the Maidan coup is the prosthetics industry, and by looking through this window, we can see a glimpse of the truth.
It was estimated in October that more than 50,000 Ukrainian soldiers already had at least one limb amputated, and this was before months of suicidal offensives at the front caused thousands more casualties every day. The number, an undercount in the first place, is now likely much higher. From there, using typical casualties ratios from previous conflicts and a little math, we can assume the the total number of wounded, according to open source data, now sits at 300-800,000. This still does not consider the missing, most of whom are dead, adding another 650,000 to the grim total.
This would amount to over 1 million total casualties, almost three times more than all branches of the US military has suffered in all of it’s post WW2 wars combined. The United States has a population of 331 million people, almost 8 times higher than that of pre-war Ukraine.
It is difficult to see how Ukraine can survive this. Nearly half it’s population is dead or gone, with much of the remainder needing permanent medical care. The survivors will be facing a bleak reality, the war has already caused over 150 billion in damages to Ukraine’s crumbling Soviet-built infrastructure. The economy is similarly shattered, in the first year of the war, GDP contracted by 35% and as the fighting rages on that number will only increase.
The agricultural sector, historically the most lucrative industry in Ukraine, is also destroyed. The industry has already suffered around 9 billion in damages, even with NATO subsidies so extreme that they have put European farmers out of business. When the subsidies are removed, the situation will not improve. Much of Ukraine’s land and water has been poisoned by war and the nation faces critical shortages of workers, fuel, heavy machinery and logistics meaning the industry will invariably collapse. Demining and soil contamination alone will take decades at best, and the water table may never recover from the devastation of war. As it’s fertile black soil dries up, the previously self-sufficient Ukraine will be left utterly dependent on usurious western “aid.”
The numbers are beginning to make the future of Ukraine look clear. Ukraine faces an inevitable economic and demographic crisis, both of which are playing out at the same time. A country in desperate need of a complete rebuilding will find itself with neither the money nor the workers necessary to do it. While the Kiev regime could turn to it’s masters in Washington, the United States will find a way to extract an even heavier toll from Ukraine than they already have. The Biden regime already demands “reforms” from Ukraine before they will consider investing, a euphemistic term which means little more than complete economic control. The Yankee buzzards will finally strip the carcass clean and leave the Ukrainian people to starve.
While the Zelensky regime holds hundreds of millions in money and property all around the world to ensure their safe landings, the average Ukrainian is not so lucky. Already ravaged from decades of neoliberal economics, the country was one of the poorest in the world even before the war broke out.
It didn’t have to be this way. Only 40 years ago, Ukraine had one of the highest standards of living in the world. The Ukrainian people enjoyed free, world class education, guaranteed employment and housing, free medical care and access to arts, recreation and culture far in excess of what a western worker could expect. Under this system, the Ukrainian people thrived.
All of that changed in 1991 when NATO’s banksters arrived to finish the job their grandfathers started. Despite their endless rhetoric about freedom and democracy, the people of Ukraine have seen nothing but suffering and death under their regime.
Once, when they lived under what we are told was a repressive dictatorship, the Ukrainian people traveled the stars. When he went to space in 1962 the first Ukrainian Cosmonaut Pavel Popovich sang songs in his native tongue. Now, under the watchful eye of the “rules based international order”, the next generation of Ukrainians will struggle to walk on missing limbs.
Well written from a historical perspective.It could have been so different .NATO ,i.e. the US made sure events proceeded as they did.
One would like to interview Thomas Malthus, who must be clapping his burn-scared hands in “glee,” if an eternity in Hell was worth it.