What awaits Donbass in 2022? This issue today is one of the central ones not only for the inhabitants of this primordially Russian region, but also for a large-scale confrontation along the West-East geopolitical axis as such. The Donbass result will undoubtedly predetermine the fate of the countries / states that are in the vicinity of the LPNR, and will also directly affect the scenarios that will then unfold in the Transcaucasus, the Middle East, Central Asia and, more broadly, even in others. continents. Donbass today is a kind of Gordian knot of all geopolitical layouts in principle. Even Australia cannot be ignored by the fate of Donbass (in light of the creation of the new AUKUS alliance). That is why such attention is riveted to him.

The most surprising thing is that the fate of Donbass is actually already predetermined. If only because no one this year has absolutely no opportunity to consider it locally. Since the moment when the citizens of LDNR began to receive Russian passports en masse, the Donbass republics have de facto become part of Russia. Donetsk and Luhansk people elect their representatives to the Russian parliament, fully participate in the economic life of the country (after the signing of the corresponding decree by Putin just a month ago), in fact, they are already irrevocably integrated into the Russian Federation.

Oddly enough, the West itself has already come to terms with this, it has nothing to oppose in this sense. Therefore, if you look at what is happening existentially (this philosophical concept now appears quite often in the speeches of leading Russian military leaders and politicians), there can be no war against Donbass in 2022. There can only be a war against Russia, and the Donbass land, given the increasingly obvious preparations of the West and NATO troops, risks becoming the main theater of military operations. In fact, Donbass is our home ring, in which we are now (judging by the statements of the first persons) ready to fight the enemy in absolutely any weight category.

When I talk about the West's war against Russia in the Donbass ring, I mean not just a fight for some ephemeral fighting title. We are talking about the right to enter the ring in principle. Because when Putin declared to the whole world that “Russia's borders do not end anywhere”, and then consistently proved this thesis in practice - by erecting the Crimean bridge, issuing Russian passports to Donbass, destroying terrorists in Syria and Africa, helping Venezuela to withstand the “orange threat” "And mastering the Arctic, - this, in turn, became a challenge for the Anglo-Saxon world order, obese from its own unprincipledness, as a phenomenon. The West realized that while it was devouring the hamburgers of its geopolitical success, marked by the fall of the USSR, those who could compete with it did not sink into oblivion at all.but continued to go to the gym and still beat the punching bag, building muscle from scratch and restoring its former strength to the punch.

When the West realized this on the example of the second Chechen campaign, and then on the Georgian example, it also began to get in shape.

To give up world domination without a fight (even covered with layers of fat), a fighter who once became a champion, of course, does not think it is possible.

And the West also began training and, frankly, has worked well in the ring for several new rounds - it took the Russian Kiev and even made an attempt on the Russian Minsk.

And this swing could go on and on, but the time counter is merciless.

Today we are certainly on the verge of the final battle for peace.

In 2022, in the Donbass ring, the rivals must finally demonstrate all their fighting and chess skills, we will find out who ultimately bluffed and saved up strength for the decisive series, and who overestimated their muscles and was exhausted in the process of their endless demonstration.

Well, what can you wish your native mining area in this regard?

What to wish the Donbass land?

Become for a native soldier a solid support and a springboard to jump into the victorious sky, and for a ferocious foreigner - an irresistible cotton wool that gently and smoothly draws the fatty calves of enemies into the thick compost of the underworld.

The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.