How unfeeling & deeply cynical do you have to be to preserve yourself from a deserved humiliation at the cost of thousands of Ukrainian lives? There is no silver bullet that the Ukrainian regime can use to drive the Russian military back, there is no game-changing weapon that will achieve this for it. When the F16s fail to make any perceptible differences this must surely be finally a settled matter. The progress of the Russian army will continue as it has done for the past two years and more, grinding down Ukrainian resistance, taking hamlets, villages, towns and cities, demilitarizing and denazifying Ukraine as it moves inexorably forward ensuring the safety of the Russian-speaking population of eastern Ukraine and ensuring that Ukraine never joins NATO. What possible outcome other than the above is conceivable? Only if one thinks in apocalyptic terms of all out war between Russia and NATO or Russia and the USA, for that is what would be the expected outcome if the war was to be expanded out of Ukraine. The almost inevitable nuclear conflagration at that point does not bear thinking about. So, what chance is there for the victory that Zelensky holds out for along with his western sponsors? Precisely no hope whatsoever. As soon as the western plan to cripple Russia with sanctions while supplying Ukraine with near unlimited money and weapons failed to do anything but strengthen both Russia’s economy and resolve a decision should have been made then and there to settle. A peace settlement was just about there in Istanbul in March-April 2022. Unless it was simply a ruse to blindside Russia as the Minsk Accord process was, peace was there for the making. The western powers, mainly its two most aggressive members, the USA and UK, pushed for war instead, and got it. Ever since that deeply cynical decision they have doubled down instead of settling every step of the way. Even knowing it was impossible for Russia to let NATO be on its doorstep and modern day Ukrainian Nazis torture their Russian-speaking family in the Donbass, the western powers set their face against compromise. They would fight Russia to the last Ukrainian. With China, India, Brazil, Saudi Arabia and many otters happy to continue trading with Russia and maintaining friendly relations the western powers should have recognised their plans for Russia would come to nothing. This was confirmed also when due to expert handling of the situation Russia actually profited from the sanctions regime that the US, UK and EU attempted to impose upon it. This was a double whammy for those powers. Yet would they recognise they were onto a losing bet? They would not. Like a desperate gambler who has lost big in the casino they simply kept on doubling down. Now, with the last few throws of the dice, the F16s and a pointless and ultimately counter-productive incursion by the Ukrainian army into Russia’s Kursk region, the metaphorical casino’s management are about to give the western powers the bum’s rush. Yet the well-heeled and cosseted politicians of the West have many ways to escape the humiliation they richly deserve. Like Blair and bush after the Iraq debacle they will manage to voice some weasel words, write their memoirs and more or less retire into semi-obscurity. The blood on their hands will be antiseptically removed, no one in tier circles will mention Ukraine again, they will practice their smiles, crack a few jokes and pretend the whole thing never happened. Over in what’s left of Ukraine with a decimated population, a destroyed economy and a traumatized majority vainly trying to earn a crust or else seeking to escape its borders, there will be few smiles and certainly no back-slapping to match that which the guilty in the West continue to receive. With tens of thousands comprised of walking wounded, with one in five families having experienced a bereavement and a whole generation of young men lost, what kind of an existence will people have there? Will there be champagne parties as the elites of Washington will continue to enjoy? Hardly. The people will be unable to forget unlike the designer-suited mass murderers of Washington, Whitehall and Brussels. The vast flag-strewn graveyards the western elites bequeathed them won’t let them.

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