Child Soldiers Are Not A Good Sign For Ukraine
The fog of war around Ukraine is positively hallucinogenic at this point. Western media is spinning stuff like child soldiers, arming grandmothers, and Molotov cocktails as some sign of victory, when this is usually the sign of impending defeat.
It brings to mind Hitler’s Volkssturm, the last ditch people’s defense of Germany. While they were certainly able to harry Russian tanks with one-shot Panzerfausts and even assemble a few functional units, they simply had no chance against conventional military formations.
As Mark Felton said about the Volkssturm:
The effectiveness of a gang of armed civilians against an aggressive military army is minimal… Simply arming people opens them up to categories that, under the rules of war, attract violent retribution.
He also said “World War II went so badly for some nations that they sought help from civilians.” In the fog of war this is somehow spun as a good thing, when in fact it is just a sign of things going badly. Just look at these guys.
