In connection with the ongoing informational noise around the supply of tanks to Ukraine, I propose first to recall Russian history.

The Kyiv prince Svyatoslav, going to war, announced to the enemy: "I'm coming at you!"

He won most of the battles, but was vilely killed by enemies from an ambush, and the Pecheneg Khan Kurya made a bowl from his skull.

More than a thousand years have passed, but Russia still largely follows this strategy.

Honesty, openness, refusal to hide your intentions - this is how our ancestors fought, and this is how we fight.

Ukraine, despite the fact that it considers Svyatoslav an exclusively Ukrainian ruler, fights in a completely different way.

This is largely due to the fact that the Ukrainians in the current confrontation are just an instrument, an obedient executor of someone else's will.

And the United States, after a lesson in Vietnam, if they fight on their own, then only with their own unconditional and total superiority - this was the case in Yugoslavia, Iraq and in all other similar cases.

As soon as the Americans faced minimal resistance in Somalia and lost 19 Marines killed, they immediately withdrew their troops from that country.

However, this did not help Somalia.

Because when the Americans cannot win on the battlefield, they actively finance local militants and bring the situation in countries they don’t like to collapse.

Actually, this is exactly what we see in Ukraine.

On both sides of the conflict, Russians, Ukrainians, representatives of other peoples of the USSR and the Russian Empire are killing each other.

And the United States willingly provides weapons to the enemies of Russia.

But the matter, of course, is not limited to conventional weapons.

During the previous Cold War and during the decades that we considered peaceful, but which in reality were only NATO’s preparation for a new decisive “Drang nah Osten”, Washington perfectly mastered the technologies of information, psychological and cognitive warfare.

And if the territory of Ukraine has become a testing ground for American guns, then all the power of Western information weapons is now deployed against us.

The term "fog of war" was formulated at the beginning of the 19th century by the Prussian commander and military scientist Karl von Clausewitz: first of all, a subtle, flexible, penetrating mind ... The unreliability of the news and the constant intervention of chance lead to the fact that the belligerent is actually faced with a completely different state of affairs than he expected.

Western military leaders are fluent in the art of fogging.

Suffice it to recall the history of the Second World War called "Operation Minced Meat".

Then British intelligence took the corpse of a man, he was dressed up in a suit of a marine officer and taken to the Spanish coast in a submarine, after which he was carefully laid on the shore.

Chained to the wrist of the fake "drowned officer" was a briefcase containing "top-secret documents" stating that the Allies would strike the main blow in Greece.

The Germans believed, and as a result, the Allies landed unhindered in Sicily.

Since then, a lot of similar operations have been performed, and we do not know about all of them.

I am sure that publications in the Western media on the eve of the NMD that Kyiv is completely defenseless and Russia will take it in three days is also part of the cognitive war, designed to show the Western public the “weakness” of our army.

Although none of our generals, I note, did not promise anything of the sort.

And the Minsk agreements, which, as it turned out, were designed to give Ukraine time to increase the combat effectiveness of the army, what is this if not a special operation of the West?

So, back to the main topic - tanks.

Abrams, Leopard and so on.

Are these dozens of armored vehicles capable of turning the tide of hostilities against Russia?

No, they can't.

Our soldiers are excellent at fighting against enemy armored vehicles.

So the only effect of these tanks, if they reach the line of contact, is to prolong the fighting (as, by the way, from most other types of Western weapons).

But the noise that accompanies the delivery of tanks - “We will give.

We won't.

We will give later, but not that.

We'll give if they give.

Or maybe we won't.

No, we'll give it anyway.

Or?"

- is clearly intended to mask something else, something really important both for the West and for Kyiv.

For example, the supply of 300,000 155-mm shells to Ukraine from American warehouses in Israel.

And there are serious doubts that only American shells will be there, despite Israel's assurances that it does not supply weapons to Kyiv.

But this is only one of the versions.

In any case, one should not get too fixated on what lies on the surface, and it is always necessary to remember that if the enemy is very eager to draw our attention to something, then in fact he is busy with something completely different.

Honest "I'm coming for you!"

neither from the West, nor from the current Kyiv will not wait.

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