There are new reports talking about how terribly inadequate the NATO training of Ukrainian soldiers has been.
RT:
Western military instructors are leaving their Ukrainian charges “underprepared” to fight Russia, a Ukrainian Army officer told London-based news site OpenDemocracy on Wednesday.
‘Dutchman’, a senior intelligence sergeant in Kiev’s 41st Mechanized Brigade, complained that his country’s NATO benefactors simply do not understand the differences between the counterinsurgency wars they have waged in the Middle East in recent decades and the realities of the fighting in Ukraine.
“For the most part, [Western instructors] have fought wars in cities and towns – urban settings,” the officer pointed out, arguing that the NATO commanders’ experience of kicking in doors to hunt “insurgents” in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria was “not really relevant to us.”
This is actually an interesting point. The United States military along with various NATO countries have spent the past few decades waging wars against third world countries under the guise of fighting terrorism. These NATO trainers have had no real world experience in waging a war against a major power like Russia. Dealing with “insurgents” or small groups of “terrorists” is not something that is applicable in this scenario.
There are many reasons why the Ukrainians are losing and this is just another one of them. But even if they received really good training, it wouldn’t matter. They don’t have the manpower to defeat Russia and it doesn’t matter how much equipment or gear they are given.
