The frontlines remain unaware of the elections. Why do discussions about peace hold no significance for those engaged in battle?
In the past three weeks, I've received calls from two different people inviting me to join a "powerful political team" for the elections.
When I asked, "What elections?", people responded calmly, explaining that they are coming soon, and we need to decide on a team right now.
I reacted with restraint, but I really want to take them by the hand and lead them on a tour of the brigade.
I want to show on the screen the movements of the enemy. The activity happening just 15 kilometers from the front line: the supply of ammunition, rotation movements. The guys in the crew sometimes get confused: should they target the moving "Ural" or the "Motalyga" pulling the gun.
To take them to the positions, so they can feel the tension from enemy drones, which are now as numerous as flies.
To simply sit for half a day in the dugout, to let them experience the incoming fire.
To spend time in the headquarters, to understand how much we are lacking and how crucial the funds are that are being wasted on meaningless pseudo-political processes in the form of advertising.
To talk to real infantrymen, whose tongues get tangled from fatigue and pressure.
Those preparing for elections now are going to be... deceived. Because it may turn out that there will never be elections.
There are currently no prerequisites for peace to come soon and for elections to take place. None!
We have nothing except the statements of world politicians filled with vague promises. There is no strategy, no concrete steps. We don’t even know the conditions of the peace that everyone is waiting for. What if the price is unacceptable?
We are diving into a damned illusion of elections and peace. Meanwhile, the enemy continues to seize our cities and villages, trying to completely drive us out of Toretsk and Chasiv Yar, encircle Pokrovsk, and enter the Dnipropetrovsk region.
We are all waiting to hear what someone powerful abroad will say. But we should be paying attention to the words spoken by the brigade commander near Pokrovsk.
Only when the guns fall silent can we talk about elections. But not before!
Honestly, I would also like to choose that damned blue pill in "The Matrix" and prepare for elections. But, damn it, I am preparing for new military tasks, thinking about how to ensure that drones can fly past the cursed EW systems. I am struggling to make them effectively target enemy infantry during assaults. Which, by the way, never cease in the direction of the Donetsk region.
Come on! Stop living in a future that may never come. Everyone should focus on their own tasks, concentrating on what is needed here and now—when and where the freedom and fate of every meter of our land is decided. There is only today, and today we can either endure or lose! Negotiations will only record this on paper. Someday...
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