Truly, glorious victory.
Just as Russian and Soviet era soldiers turned the Nazi tide all those years ago, defying predictions of defeat against the hitherto undefeated Nazi war machine, so too today the fighters of the Donbass their modest international brigades, and their sheer indomitable will and determination to defend their much-loved land, has resulted in a richly deserved crushing rout of the pro-US troops, private thuggish armies, and foreign mercenaries of the Ukrainian junta.
Glory to the fighters of the Donbass! But don't take my word for it.
The Novorussians are in control of most of Debaltsevo (officially 100% as of midnight GMT). More relevantly, there is no more organized resistance. Russian sources say that about 1000 junta soldiers have refused to surrender and are hiding in the outskirts or have fled to the south end of the cauldron. The Novorussians are not even bothering to hunt them down or return their sporadic (and inaccurate) fire: they are waiting for hunger and cold to force them to give up. A spokesman for the Novorussians has reported that all communications between the junta forces in the cauldron and their commanders have been suppressed. Russian TV stations are showing footage of Novorussian soliders raising their flag over the center of the city.
And the information war is a crushing victory as well.
The most amazing event of the day though is Petro Poroshenko's continual denial that there is any Debaltsevo cauldron at all. Apparently the junta is in such a shock from the recent events that the freaks in Kiev has decided to simply completely deny the reality of it all. This is an extremely misguided strategy because even though the Russian media has now been banned on Ukrainian cable and radio stations, and the entire Russian press corps has had its accreditation in the Ukraine canceled, it is still accessible on the Internet and information about the current events is easily transmitted simply by phone (including phone calls from junta forces inside the cauldron). So while the freaks in the Rada and the government can go into the "deep denial" mode, the population is informed about the reality and rumors will, if anything, only amplify the magnitude of the disaster.
Even the NY Times doesn't buy the nonsense from President Chocolateshenko. He may now also be in the crosshairs by the fascist freaks and the West generally. Yesterday's man, like Saakashvili in Georgia, gets jettisoned sooner or later. This time, it may be sooner rather than later.
I think that what we are witnessing these days is truly a historical event. While the defeat in Debaltsevo is tactical in its dimension, it will most definitely have serious operational consequences and possibly even strategic ones.
For starters, all those crack troops tied up bringing the cauldron to a boil are now free to go elsewhere. By the spring, the Novorossiyans will be well prepared for any pro-US Ukrainian attack, however well armed they are. "This might well be the beginning of the end for the Nazi experiment in Kiev." And more.
The implications for the AngloZionist empire are rather clear: if the 1%ers have any kind of sense of reality left, they should toss out Poroshenko and the rest of the crazies and foster some kind of government of technocrats in charge of drafting a new constitution and organizing a referendum on federalization simply because the folks in Kiev better negotiate while there still is something left to negotiate then to way to be hiding in a surrounded bunker like their hero Hitler did. Alas, I don't think Uncle Sam or the Eurocretins have any common sense left in them.Whatever may be the case, by the ballot or by the bullet, but we *are* winning.
