”The worse, the better.” During the short-lived coup attempt by Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner mercenaries over the weekend, it seemed that much of the US commentariat had adopted this old Leninist creed, aimed originally at undermining Tsarist rule and hastening the triumph of Bolshevism. The more trouble Putin faced at home, many American media influencers reasoned, the better off America and the world would be.

If the truth be told, we are getting sick and tired of the little piss-ant who runs the cease-pool of corruption, tyranny, delusion and death called Ukraine. This clown – and that’s what he is actually trained as – just can’t seem to stop stridently demanding money, arms and support from the rest of the world and lecturing everyone to fall into line or else.

The CNN, followed by the New York Times, broke the story on Sunday that the US and western intelligence were indeed aware of the failed coup attempt on Friday night by Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner Group of Russian military contractors, “for quite some time and making preparations for such a move, including by massing weapons and ammunition.”

When Vladimir Putin was recently asked about the potential use of nuclear weapons in the context of Ukraine, an understanding of back-alley Russian slang was needed to understand his response.

If the Ukraine conflict continues on its current trajectory, it will end in a total disaster for humanity

The article I am responding to here states a frightening truth. The US has taken us to the very edge of the abyss. True, it could well be that President Putin has indeed anticipated that the west would see sense, but at the same time, the west expects Putin to back down on his nuclear threat.

It was obvious from the beginning that the Kremlin’s “limited military operation” would result in an ever-widening war leading to a nuclear confrontation, and there is no doubt that the conflict has continued to widen.

Sixty years after Kennedy’s commencement address at American University, crucial lessons must still be learned about how to end dangerous conflicts in a nuclear world.

There are no surprises in the current developments of the war and the ongoing tragedy and current crisis: Everything that is happening is what honest and competent authorities and observers – of whom there are indeed many outside the farcical so-called mainstream US and British media – have repeatedly predicted and monitored.

In 1943 Hitler’s Germans tried to take Kursk from Stalin’s Soviet troops and failed