Media starting to admit Russia winning the war
Maybe now peace talks can start in earnest
Just as Congress is approving $40 billion in new aid to blow up Ukraine, the U.S. media is starting to admit Russia is winning, as I have pointed out since shortly after the war began. All along the slaughter has been senseless, and could have stopped if the U.S., which is the main force behind the war, not Kyiv, agreed to keep Ukraine out of NATO and give some autonomy to the Russian-speaking Donbas region.
The NYTimes conceded Wednesday: “Russians Hold Much of the East, Setbacks Aside.” The story: “Obscured in the daily fighting is the geographic reality that Russia has made gains on the ground.” Yeah, obscured because of NYT propaganda for three months.
“The Russian Defense Ministry said Tuesday that its forces in eastern Ukraine had advanced to the border between Donetsk and Luhansk, the two Russian-speaking provinces where Moscow-backed separatists have been fighting Ukraine’s army for eight years.”
Why should Americans care about those two provinces separating from Ukraine? The U.S. has supported: The breakaway of 13 republicans from the Soviet Union. The split between the old Czechoslovakia. Breaking Kosovo from Yugoslavia. Breaking up Yugoslavia itself.
Yet the U.S. regime for eight years has poured billions into Ukraine to prevent independence for the Donbas. Now another $40 billion. And tens of thousands of dead Ukrainians and Russians.
“And the Russians enjoy the added advantage of naval dominance in the Black Sea, the only maritime route for Ukrainian trade, which they have paralyzed with an embargo that could eventually starve Ukraine economically and is already contributing to a global grain shortage.”
To prevent Donbas independence, the Biden regime now is causing global starvation. It also appears Eastern Ukraine, the Donbas area, as well as the Southwest, what’s called Novorossiya — translation: New Russia — will end up being absorbed into Russia. Maybe not right away, but within a decade.
Meanwhile, the ruble is stronger than when the war started. Remember Biden saying, in his State of the Union address, “the rubble is ruble”? Or maybe it was — hard to understand him — “the ruble is rubble.”
One good thing was 57 Republicans opposed the $40 billion to blow up Ukraine. No Democrats did. Even such putatively anti-war Democrats as The Squad backed the senseless prolongation of the killing. Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and the others turned out to be rote-voting, hack Establishment Democrats after all.
So did Rep. Barbara Lee of Oakland, the lone member of Congress who two decades ago voted against the Iraq War. She spoke the Biden blather about supporting “democracy,” that is the Zelensky dictatorship, against the tyrant Putin. But why didn’t she use similar words 20 years ago? Whereas it turned out, as many of us suspected, Saddam never had “weapons of mass destruction,” Putin certainly wields 6,000 of them.
For an old guy like me, it’s weird seeing the Left be the biggest warmongers. I grew up supporting the Vietnam War and despising the leftists who spat on our troops coming home, including a cousin and regular guys I knew from my neighborhood in Michigan. The Left shouted, “Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! The NLF Is Gonna Win!” The NLF was the Viet Cong. When I grew up, I realized the war was a bad one and we never should have joined it.
Now that the Left has become the warmongers, one thing is the same as five decades ago: How much the Left hates America and want to destroy it. Maybe they’ll get their wish and Russia will nuke us.
But maybe the NYTimes admission of how the war really is going will lead to peace talks pronto. The $40 billion will just be turned into the usual graft, with Joe getting his usual 10% cut.
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