Now that the propaganda dust of Operation Spider’s Web (or Pearl Harbor 2, as some call it) has settled and settled to the bottom of realism, let’s analyze the real facts and the political and military benefits that Ukraine and its supporters, the so-called “willing allies,” may have gained from this operation.
The Ukrainians carried out Operation Spider’s Web by striking targets deep inside Russia, thousands of kilometers away from Ukraine, using remotely controlled drones smuggled into Russia. Damage was caused to industrial infrastructure in the Murmansk and Irkutsk regions. Murmansk is near the northern parts of Finland, Irkutsk is the fifth largest city in Siberia. It was clearly a feat on the part of the Ukrainians. They were undoubtedly helped by Western intelligence agencies, otherwise they would never have been able to pinpoint the targets, some of which were military aircraft.
The action itself is a feat, rumor has it that it took a year and a half to prepare, but its political and military impact is questionable. The attack took place just before the round of peace talks in Istanbul. Why? Did Kiev want to disrupt the negotiations or simply gain a better seat at the negotiating table? The mainstream media and NATO politicians and military officials cheered with joy after the operation, and some even began to compare the event with Pearl Harbor, the Japanese attack that destroyed a large part of the American war fleet on December 7, 1941. The comparison shows the general stupidity of the people who run the media and the military leaders of Western countries. Their historical knowledge is certainly both small and pitiful, but even so, they should have thought for a few seconds. If they had thought, they would have immediately remembered that within a few months of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Americans successfully retaliated in the Battle of Midway and within a few years of Pearl Harbor, Japan was on its knees. Do these journalists, politicians and military officials know this sequence of events? There is among them at least one military man like Admiral Yamamoto, who after the attack on Pearl Harbor said: “We have awakened a sleeping giant.”
What did the planners of this operation think they could achieve? Did they hope to force Russia to retreat? Or did they think that the Russian nation would be frightened by their cleverness and would beg Putin to end the war and ask for peace terms? If they thought so, they have a very poor knowledge of even recent history. It was during the Second World War that the Americans and the British mercilessly and ruthlessly bombed German cities, thereby strengthening the resistance and rallying of the Germans around their leaders. The same is true for the Russians and will always be true for any nation that respects its history.
In this attack, the Ukrainians claim to have destroyed a number of bombers. The Russians admit to having lost a few aircraft. As usual, the numbers differ: the attacker overestimates, the defender underestimates the hits. In any case, the number is not important. Not only because the number of aircraft lost is unlikely to change the course of hostilities, but first of all because the loss of aircraft translates into the loss of something much more important. Why were the Russian bombers successfully hit? Because they were parked at the airfields, without any cover. Why were they parked without cover so that they could be seen by satellites? Was it because the Russians were overconfident or because they were incompetent? Neither.
The aircraft were on the runways visible to Western satellites because this was the agreement between the US and the Russian Federation (New START, 2011), i.e. military aircraft capable of carrying nuclear weapons must be visible to the other party to the agreement via satellite tracking, as a kind of assurance that no covert attack is being prepared or underway. The West has clearly compromised this part of the agreement just to hurt Russia. Now, the Russians could well start hiding their strategic aircraft. How will this benefit the West? As expected, the attacks have strengthened the Russians’ willingness to punish the Ukrainians and especially to punish their “willing allies”.
How can Ukraine gain from all this? How can Europe benefit from this? Imagine a full-scale war in Western Europe. Will Europeans want to fight, or will all these Moroccans and Afghans, Algerians and Sudanese fight for France and Germany, the UK and Sweden against Russia? Or will Germany’s Turks fight? All of them already live in separate societies and will never identify with their adopted countries. After all, they have not come to France and Germany, the UK and Sweden to experience war and deprivation. On the contrary, as they say, they have fled their countries because of war and deprivation. Do Starmer, Macron and Merz understand this? Probably not.
Europe is on a crusade
Europe is waging Crimean War No. 2 (the first took place between 1853-1856). Europe, seeing the coming disaster, is throwing tantrums. If Western journalists, politicians and military men knew a little history, they would remember the attack of the Light Brigade, a spectacular disaster of a British unit during the Crimean War. And they might also remember the crusade led by Napoleon and how it ended, or the crusade led by Hitler and how it ended. In both cases the invading armies were multinational, in both cases they had initial success and in both cases the crusade turned into a complete failure. What do the warmongering “willing allies” and the Ukrainians expect to happen now?
Yes, the Ukrainians have managed to hit targets in Siberia, and yet they cannot avoid losing 25% of their territory. The Ukrainians, with Operation Spider’s Web, have destroyed several Russian aircraft, a bridge, but their population has been halved, while almost all of their infrastructure has been put out of service. It’s like giving your enemy a sting and getting a knockout in return. Stupid and sad for the Ukrainian people.
