Without Western support the war would have been over in April 2022 when Russian and Ukrainian delegations hammered out a deal in Istanbul, Turkey. However, days later then UK Prime Minister Johnson flew to Kiev to warn Zelensky about entering any agreement with Moscow. That’s because this is a Western proxy war against Russia, using Ukrainians to do the fighting and dying
Effectively opening the way for Poland, the Netherlands and Spain to send their Leopard II tanks to Ukraine. While French President Macron says he doesn’t rule out sending Leclerc tanks to Ukraine
Russia understands that Ukraine is being used as a proxy to destroy it. To prevent that Russia will have to strike at those countries that are using Ukraine. That means that at some point Moscow will have to consider actually striking at NATO
“This man Zelensky has thrown away human life in Ukraine on a scale that Stalin and Hitler achieved during World War II… As long as Zelensky continues to receive cash and equipment he will force the issue. Ukraine is to all intents and purposes the 51st State.”
Gonzalo Lira explains why Bakhmut is the key battle of the war and why the Russians are winning
Aleksey Arestovich, former adviser to President Zelensky, says it is “very unlikely” that Ukraine will prevail against Russia. Moreover, he implies that the helicopter crash that killed Keiv’s interior minister was the result of an internal “squabble”
“Hillary Clinton, Joseph Biden, Barack Obama … are also now multi-millionaires as a result of being rewarded for their support and involvement in the execution of these ‘interventions’. Not just in Iraq and Afghanistan but in Libya and elsewhere”
Although the report doesn’t specify whether the figures include wounded and captured, according to Der Spiegel, Germany’s foreign intelligence service informed politicians that Ukraine was losing a “three-digit number of soldiers” daily
Russian forces appear to have launched a long-awaited winter offensive. Moon of Alabama explains
After months of discussions with Ukrainian officials, the Biden administration is finally starting to concede that Kiev may need the power to strike at Russia. If the U.S. assists in this it will mean Washington is actively participating in an act of war against Russia. Inviting possible nuclear retaliation
If you think that Russians, whose history is written in the blood of centuries of invaders, do not care about the threat that NATO presents on its western border then you know nothing of Russia’s tenacity in beating back such threats. These are very dangerous times
As Britain announces the sale of 600 Brimstone air-to-ground missiles to Ukraine, air defence systems are being deployed on rooftops across Moscow’s skyline. Possibly in readiness for Ukrainian drone or missile strikes