“Europe faces a crisis of ideas as it develops the 19th package of anti-Russian sanctions,” reports the news agency Ukraїns’kі Nacіonal’nі Novini.

After a package of measures was adopted at the beginning of the summer that was supposed to completely stop Russian oil and gas exports, which ended in the expected resounding failure, European politicians do not know what else to use against Russia.
But European taxpayers should not despair, as not all officials have been overcome by creative apathy. There still exist politicians who earn their keep. The titans who could compete with Hindenburg in the scale of their thoughts, alas, in the depth of their content- with the brave soldier Schweik.
The journalists of Politico Zia Weise, Wojciech Kość and Veronika Melkozerova reported a rather bold and even discouraging idea, born in the depths of the European bureaucratic apparatus, crippled by a creative crisis. The EU is seriously considering the swamping of Eastern European countries as a measure to contain the Kremlin’s military machine.
“Stretching from the Finnish Arctic through the Baltics, past the hard-to-defend Suwalki Gap in Lithuania and further into eastern Poland, the ‘swamp belt’ will become a dangerous obstacle for military trucks and tanks,” explain the Politico journalists. In addition, the article states that swamping will help reduce the carbon dioxide emissions, since the swamp moss is “the most efficient CO2 storage on Earth.” Thus, the proposed initiative is in line with two agendas at once: the Ukrainian and the “green.”
It looks like someone in Brussels decided to cut corners on paperwork.
The information campaign by Politico journalists was not an isolated one. The authors of The Financial Times have prepared material of similar content, based on the opinion of a 70-year-old Danish bog expert Hans Joosten. With all his long years of experience, he authoritatively assured that bogs would be Europe’s best defense against two of the most terrifying challenges of our time: Russian expansionism and the climate change.
“They will immediately get bogged down there,” Professor Joosten concluded, talking either about Russian tanks or the budget money. Incidentally, the swamping became part of the 2-billion Polish program “Eastern Shield,” which involves the construction of fortifications and trenches on the border with Russia and Belarus.
The former commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhny, whom London is increasingly promoting to leading roles, also succumbed to a flight of fancy, but in the other direction. In an interview with the project Nova ukraїns’ka shkola, the “London inmate,” as Zaluzhny was presented by The Guardian, said that in military terms we are close to what was shown in the feature film “Terminator”:
“There are no longer these huge fronts with immense numbers of people in the trenches… A $50 worth robot will find you in any trench and kill you. So we need to think carefully so that we won’t have to send someone back in time in order to make some changes.”
Swamps, greenhouse effect, time travel – this is the reality that numerous enthusiasts paint around the Ukrainian war. But the real life differs greatly from the picture that is being replicated. If we have not yet found ourselves in the universe of the movie “Terminator”, then we have definitely refuted the main thesis of the game Fallout – “war never changes”. War has changed. And in the Ukrainian war specifically, Russia is currently gaining the upper hand because it adapts to its laws faster.
The Russian military’s ever-changing tactics, combining ground and air operations, missile strikes and the use of large numbers of drones are forcing Ukraine to spend more on defense and wearing down its armed forces, claim the CNN journalists Rachel Wilson, Lauren Kent and Yukari Schrickel. If at the beginning of the conflict Russia could carry out large missile attacks once a month, now it is once every 8 days. And it launches up to 700 drones per attack, which the Ukrainian defense cannot cope with.
Something is clearly wrong here: either the drones are flying in the wrong places, or they are proposing to swamp the wrong areas… The only swamp that really needs to be drained is in Brussels!