President Biden paid a surprise visit to Ukraine Monday in a desperate attempt to provide moral support for an increasingly beleaguered regime. But even the normally compliant Western MSM is now beginning to acknowledge the dire straits Zelensky is in
Lies and hypocrisy are at the heart of the Biden foreign policy
The latest tactic for Ukrainian press gangs is to order a pizza and then when the pizza delivery boy turns up with their order, they seize him and force him into service
More informed insights from Scott Ritter. According to the former US Marine Intelligence officer and UN Weapons Inspector, it’s over. Ukrainian forces will soon face a full Russian offensive and run out of ammo as they do so. What’s more, their WESTERN BACKERS KNEW THIS WOULD HAPPEN LAST SEPTEMBER. In other words, they set the Ukrainians up for a fall
UK Minister of Defence Ben Wallace admits that budget restraints over the last thirty years have left Western armies “hollowed out”. “We didn’t count on a real war”, he told Der Spiegal. As a result there is now a shortage of arms and ammunition with which to supply Ukraine
Will the US now use this allegation as the basis from which to escalate its efforts against Russia? As the US vice president pledges that those responsible “will be held to account”; does she mean in the way Saddam Hussien was?
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg warns that ‘Russia is not preparing for peace’, as demands from the war in Ukraine reduce Western military munitions stockpiles to dangerous lows
The Russians aren’t only fighting Ukrainians. According to Rolo Slavisky, there has been squabbling on the frontlines between the Wagner group and the Russian Ministry of Defence
The truth-blackout has been awesome indeed, and instead of history citizens have been given the mind-numbing mantra that big, bad Russia invaded poor little Ukraine for no reason, and so we have to defend Ukraine to protect freedom, democracy etc.
In 2019 the Rand Corporation outlined a plan to ensnare Russia in a military conflict that would result in stalemate. The aim was to entrap Russia in the kind of quagmire which had stymied America’s own adventures abroad. The goal was not only the military humiliation of Russia, but to “bleed” Russia on the battlefield in an unwinnable campaign
With less than 70,000 combat troops, the British don’t even have enough troops to fill a football stadium. While the Germans simply “can’t fight” and the Poles and French are little better. Scott Ritter on why NATO is woefully unprepared to take on Russia.
The incompetence is mind-boggling, and it’s not a short-term problem either. Western nations no longer have the industrial base to provide the necessary supplies and equipment for “large-scale, high-intensity warfare.” Yet here they are setting themselves up for just such an outcome