Loser General Valerii Zaluzhnyi: Ukraine’s Butcher of the Steppe

Consequently, Western media outlets, enthusiastically and outspokenly led by “Time,” America’s news magazine of record for most of the past century, ludicrous and pathetic though it is today and “Forbes” which tells Wall Street what to think (which explains a lot) hailed the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) commander-in-chief General Valerii Zaluzhnyi as a military genius. And Zaluzhnyi, like his master, regime President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, claimed by Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi was the worthy successor to Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, reveled in the applause of idiots and whores.

Zaluzhnyi was acclaimed as the “Master” of a new form of warfare that made old fashioned integrated infantry, armor, air support and artillery operations obsolete. He had, the credulous US and British publics especially were told, completely blocked and bamboozled the Russian Army and exposed its supposedly hollow, fraudulent nature. “Time” named him as one of 2022’s 100 most influential people in the world. Wow.

It is now clear that this ludicrous nonsense was swallowed by the top policymakers of the Biden administration, most notably Secretary of State Antony Blinken, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and Acting Under Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland.

However, with Ukrainian war dead now in excess of 400,000 and credibly projected as high as 450,000, at least 123,000 new war graves detected by satellite imagery and scores of thousands of young Ukrainian soldiers suffering amputations, often carried out in primitive and horrifying conditions, Zaluzhnyi’s hosanna chorus among the instant “military genius” talking heads in Washington and London has gone strangely quiet.

The simple hard, clear truth must now be obvious to all: Zaluzhnyi was never a brilliant military genius: He never ever had serious high class professional military experience or training: He knew how to look attentive when loser US and NATO senior officers dumped their 40-year-old obsolescent equipment on him and told him how wonderful it was going to be. 

Because Zaluzhnyi’s soldiers were self-sacrificing and brave, they made him look initially good in the first weeks of the conflict.

But when serious military operations and issues of longer-term strategy and even basic combat tactics were needed, it quickly became apparent that like Herbert Kitchener, Josef Joffre, Franz Conrad von Hotzendoerf and Erich von Ludendorff – the fateful British, French, Austrian and German military supremos in the astounding mindless butchery of World War I, Zaluzhnyi hadn’t a clue. And an entire generation of brave young Ukrainians has already died to prove that point.

First, Zaluzhnyi clearly ignored the sage military strategic advice of Jesus in the Gospels: Do not go against 20,000 men with 10,000 men less, unless you really do have a good plan and capability for defeating them.

And Zaluzhnyi seems incapable of even spelling or pronouncing correctly the name of Sun Tzu, China’s supreme master of strategy and war. 

Instead, like Germany’s thuggish, simplistic Carl von Clausewitz, he proved obsessed with attacking the Russian army head on. 

Sun Tzu always demanded “Attack your enemy where he is weak. Avoid that which is strong.”

Instead Zaluzhnyi, like the ghastly World War I military commanders, especially Britain’s Douglas Haig, insisted only on attacking that which was strong.

Sun Tzu, followed by the great Soviet Red Army commanders, US General Douglas Macarthur and Britain’s Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery in World War II, urged the crucial importance of masrilovka – strategic military deception – as to where you are going to attack. 

Zaluzhnyi instead, for an incredible four to five months in advance, made clear where he was going to attack the Russian army head-on, just as his US and NATO puppet-masters had “advised” him to.  At least 100.,000 Ukrainian soldiers have died this summer so far – and more are following by the day – as a result.

If one bothers to look behind “Time” and “Forbes” shameless blow-job profiles of Zaluzhnyi (and it takes less than five minutes to do so), a simple, honest and clear picture immediately emerges.

Ukraine’s Napoleon (or Alexander Suvarov) never served in the Soviet army. His main command experience was in protecting neo-Nazi terrorists who killed 14,000 Russians, largely civilians in Luhansk and Donetsk from 2014 to 2022.

In other words, Zaluzhnyi never learned his business first-hand in any serious professional military, either in the East or West. He never had any small unit command, or battalion or brigade level, let alone divisional command in any serious combat situation against any competent land force. Nor, unlike such great World War II Western commanders like Macarthur, Omar Bradley, George Patton, Montgomery or Charles de Gaulle, has he shown the slightest hint of independent cognitive capability. Put simply: He cannot think.

Sun Tzu teaches the essential importance of responding to instantly changing conditions on the battlefield. The great World War II commanders either exercised this power close up to the battlefield and stayed tightly connected to it, or delegated such authority to those who could.

Also, Zaluzhnyi has consistently shown no ability to learn from his mistakes. The price for his bullish stupidity and mental passivity continues to be paid in the lives of his soldiers.

Montgomery, Bradley and Ulysses Grant during the US Civil War made their share of command mistakes, everyone does. But they learned from them and never repeated them. By contrast, Douglas Haig continued his insanely incompetent battle tactics on the Somme in 1916 until half a million British boys were dead.

Like the other worst military butchers in history – George Meade, Douglas Haig, Ludendorff, Foch, Robert Nivelle and Joffre in World War I he never learns from his mistakes and just keeps grinding at it.

Like Britain’s little boy pathetic Desert commanders in World War II until Montgomery purged the lot of them, Zaluzhnyi also has a child’s faith in commandos and special operations.

He is now pleading for more US-built F-16s and HIMARS systems after the US and NATO armed forces have already stripped their own weapons arsenals dry supplying them to him. It does not seem to have crossed his clearly limited brain that the Russian army has already developed operational tactics that slaughter them. Or that the F-16 system, magnificent for so long, is now nearly 50 years old and dangerously out of date.

Zaluzhnyi therefore shows he is piss-ignorant of yet another fundamental Sun Tzu principle: Never reinforce failure. Never waste more troops, energy, weapons and resources in tactics and attacks that have already repeatedly failed.

Finally, Sun Tzu teaches: When defeat comes, it is the general’s fault, not the soldiers.

In the harsh, clear verdict of history, Valerii Zaluzhnyi already stands convicted and condemned.

As do the ignorant, arrogant, cowardly and utterly inept Western military “geniuses” who groomed and guided him.