Idealists, diletants, or an aggressive influence agent shouting realists? Will the crash of the Ukrainian counteroffensive reconstruct the substantive, critical discourse of analysts in Poland about this war? In fresh days, I have observed a rash of self-criticism, “great surprise”, an insult to reality, among the various ointments of journalists, bloggers, podcast creators, who abruptly “discovered” that the war in Ukraine fundamentally looks different and that everything indicates that Russia is coming out of it victorious alternatively than Ukraine.
The breakthrough was the articles of the Chief of Staff of the Ukrainian Army General Walery Załużny in "The Economist". The loudest 1 that triggered the large resonance is an article in which he admitted to the fiasco of the large spring-summer offensive, entitled “The Chief Commander of Ukraine on a breakthrough that is needed to defeat Russia”.
Due to my interests, the second article of General "Modern trench war and how to win it" is peculiarly interesting, where the General discusses purely tactical, method military issues.
The well-deserved outlines the course of war far from the narration in force in Poland, causing many disbelief and even aggression. Importantly, in his opinion, the Russian army has adapted to conditions, taught a lot and despite losses has a crucial advantage.
“ Russia should not be underestimated, ” says the well - deserved one. She suffered dense losses and utilized quite a few ammunition. However, for a long time it will have an advantage in weapons, equipment, rockets and ammunition."In fact, General Załużny wrote nothing revealing, for people with cognition of forces, means, method capabilities of the Russian army and the course of this war.
The problem in Poland, in my opinion, is that in the public space, a dominant, far unrealistic, false image of the war in Ukraine was created. surviving in this country for almost 50 years, formed in the democratic III of the Republic of Poland, for a period of time in the form of journalism in this area of armed conflicts, for the first time I faced incredible disinformation of a systemic nature, financed and controlled. In fact, with censorship and pressure, not to say repression of people who effort soberly, scientifically, to examine the events of the Russian Ukrainian War on the issues of technology, tactics and the conduct of armed actions.
Today, after nearly 2 years, 1 can finally, although inactive not quite, talk about what is happening on the fronts of the war in Ukraine differently than the materials provided by the 72nd Center for Information and intellectual Combat of the peculiar Forces of Ukraine.
Perhaps it is time to reflect on who, for what intent and for whose money systematically disinformationed the Polish public about the conduct of military activities in Ukraine, including in the field of purely military and method issues. After all, there was a full group of people with financial resources, who consciously built and promoted the image of war, speaking roughly, far from reality, spreading propaganda in favour of Kiev.
These people spontaneously called themselves experts on the issue of the Russian army, the war in Ukraine and fiercely spread a unilateral warped image. According to Mr. Wyrwał, 1 of the authors of the war in Ukraine in his “self-criticism” wrote: “The treatment of Russia was 1 of our favourite entertainments and our war experts. How many times have we read about the idiotic Russian commanders, the power-stealing equipment, the drones tied on a tritite or the tanks brought to the front of the 1950s. The disregard of Russia has led us – the West – to where we are today."
In terms of my technological investigations, with horror and disbelief, I observed, an idolatrous and unwarranted admiration over the Bayraktar TB-2 drones, which, under the influence of emotional uplifts and false propaganda narrative, were purchased for the Polish Army in the shock version, believing that this was an effective means of combating Russian military vehicles. Bayraktar TB2 were purchased as part of an urgent operational need, regardless of the programmes and plans to modernise the method forces.
Has anyone asked where is PLN 22,000,000 that Mr Sławomir Sierakowski collected for the Bayraktar TB-2 drone for Ukrainians? I found information in the media: "The Minister of Defence of Ukraine Alexi Reznikov sent a letter asking for the backing of a training centre for Ukrainian soldiers," writes Sławomir Sierakowski present on Facebook". "I signed a contract with the Come Back Alive Foundation last week and a payment order (I besides print the order in the comment). The full cost PLN 5.130.000". What about the remainder of the money? This foundation (another intermediary) builds military infrastructure in this training? Someone's moving this money, possibly any kind of foundation, possibly someone's got a good livelihood.
Is it not worth considering how the reality described by General Zażalnego is described, to what people like Anna Maria Dyner, Mr. Wolski, Mr. Ogdowski, Mr. Micek, Mr. Korowaj wrote? individual will always say that they duplicated the communicative that was spread e.g. by a retired American general, who each period announced that Ukrainians would “liberate Crimea”, the celebrated Ben Hodges.
Some journalists describe them as “idealists”, recalling that there were “realists” but shouted “rusofile”, “unuce”, “scarpetkosceptic”, “putinists” who were seceded in the public discourse in Poland. This was said to have looked much more plural in the United States, hence the "conceptual shock" after the Deserve's articles is little and the dissonance of what the public expected little severe.
Is it worth listening to the realists for the future?
I'll be back on my own, purely military and method issues. Expert cognition is not something you can "googling" somewhere. These are decades of learning, thousands of articles read, hundreds of books, dozens of trips, cognition of language, the realities of the country and the inhabitants of which we compose analysis. You can put incorrect hypotheses, you can't be wrong, you can't be wrong, you can't be wrong, you can't be wrong.
It cannot be utilized as an authority by individual who is about 30 years old, with cognition being "googled" , does not know the history, the country concerned, the mentality of society, does not know the army and technology in the span of decades. This is pure water diletant. It's truly nothing that they have "ranges" on Fb or Twitter.
It cannot be ruled out that these people (Idealists) were pushed, utilizing planned specialized manipulation, seemingly logical materials, and they reproduced it on social media. The “ranges” were formed and this was the consequence of unprofessional information, and most frequently the disinformation of Ukrainian people, which was fed to Polish public opinion.
These people are to be explained by idealism, a deep desire to aid Ukraine to which the Russian army has aggressively committed. Maybe. They became emotionally active and felt it was right and necessary. However, we gotta draw conclusions. Moral and political assessments of war in Ukraine are 1 thing. And its course, method issues, military is second. Information about this unfortunate conflict should be realistic, alongside the present one, no 1 forbids it emotionally engaged idealistic.
In addition to young people, however, there were besides mature people with deep professional knowledge, who besides spread false information, and who were unaware that they were missing the fact I did not suspect.
If individual spreads information which is written by peculiar services of Ukraine, SBU or HUR, specified activity in the territory of a sovereign state specified as Poland is an evident activity for the interests of a abroad state and this is defined as an influence agent. So can the disinformation of the warlord state, duplicated by the agent of influence, be the only or dominant origin of nonsubjective information about this war? I don't think so.
It is worth that you pay attention to what you read and who is the author. There's so much emotion, and there's so much objectivity.
Fb, as a social media, is unfortunately affected by another “bole”. We have full hordes of "trols" , i.e. false accounts that spread disinformation and attack in pseudo-discourses. In a year and a half, I have blocked over 200 specified profiles (without photo, or with meme, profiles on which are dogs, birds, garden photos, and never the author or his family, and sometimes there is nothing). This trolling, they grow both sides of the war, so we have both Russian and Ukrainian war narratives, but in a ratio of 1:10 in favour of Ukrainian.
Of course, for the sake of peace, you can compose nothing. You can turn off your comments, due to the fact that you can turn off your native unstable people, nationalists or racists, too. As well as the deficiency of people obsessed with the punches of Ukrainians or Russia. These are illness conditions like anti-Semitism or rusophobia. These people have their obsessions and “war” on social media. However, with the cognition of decades deepened, based on passion, experience allowing for a critical analysis of the war on Ukraine, I intend to proceed with your support, to print material concerning it with a deep belief that this publication time will be as short as possible and that unnecessary war on our east neighbours will shortly end.
Krzysztof Podgórski
