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Thank you Tom for realistic depiction of the situation and as well multitude of wake up calls along the last few months.

Irrespective of the way the situation is presented (sarcastic; upbeat; downbeat) - there is no reason of hiding actual deficiencies and not to act on them. The thing that I sorrowly miss is what are the actions being taken by Ukraine. And this is in fact the most worrisome signal. Thus when you titled one of your review "Car-crash in slow motion", even prior opening it, I've realized that my fears are getting more foundation.

I do want Ukraine to win or at least to stop the murderous russian regime. I will support and actively supporting Ukraine through my available means. But it will become harder and harder mentally if no clear visible actions are taken by Ukrainan government. It is impossible to rely all the time on heroic work of the soldiers on the Frontline.

As somebody mentioned in a different blog - if everything works well, you don't need heroes.

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Plan for defeat:

1. For mad money we are engaged in landscaping parks, mow lawns somewhere in Donetsk region, preferably 5-10-20-30 km from the front, but in no case let the same mad money to help and provide for their own military units, which are located in this or that community, let the volunteers do the provision, they von 50 000 - 60 000 UAH. a month collect, it should be enough;

2. Instead of a competent information policy and media support of recruiting campaigns of each brigade, which are directly on the first line of the front - we fill the cities with bigboards with our cute face with the thesis a la “We live here”. and let TCC deal with brigades staffing according to the same scheme as before, it is the same working and provides maximum quality resources for these brigades, while declaring that “the topic of recruiting is a failure” and it is not able to fully meet the needs of brigades (have you done a fucking thing to develop this very recruiting?);

3. no responsibility for corrupt officials, including those who directly affect the provision of these very brigades, for memes and pictures we detain individuals with tons of bucks “on the crib”, and then publicly declare, “we can't change the legislation, so there will be no responsibility as such”, and in general, what are you lackeys indignant about, well, everyone's getting fucked up, everyone's out on bail and whatever;

4. We first form requirements to everyone in the world and claims, we form nothing to ourselves - everything is fine, everything is perfect, especially when in the hottest phase of the change of brigade commanders in some key brigades for whatever fucking reason, and then we stomp our feet and shout at the naradas, but what went wrong?!

5. We do not deal with internal financial disappearances, we do not shake customs and entire schemes of theft in different echelons of power, in order to use the stolen money for example to pay the GPO or to strengthen the regions, and then loudly declare that people “for some reason” return to their frontline homes and homes in the occupation. Similarly with the previous point - we loudly stomp our feet, declare, but do nothing;

6. We continue to air all kinds of “experts” who prophesize that prices will rise. which prophesize the increase of prices for light, gas, water and air, and at the same time we raise taxes, while in no case we do not deal with point number 5 and do not explain to the people what we plan or do not plan, and how the “top of light, gas and water” have more wealth than some villages put together;

and now compare these points with the ones you've been reading.

for now - which plan are we following more?

moral: if you don't want to win (or if you want to, but don't want to make drastic decisions to achieve the goal), what is the point of making ordinary people believe in it?

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