One of the reasons that Russian media has been completely blocked in the West, along with the unprecedented control and censorship over the Ukraine war narrative, is the fact that western governments simply do not want their public to know that the world is vastly changing.

There is no realistic scenario for Ukraine to win. Washington should push for a settlement.

White House officials are losing confidence that Ukraine will ever be able to take back all of the land it has lost to Russia over the past four months of war, US officials told CNN, even with the heavier and more sophisticated weaponry the US and its allies plan to send.

Ukrainian troops retreat from Severodonetsk city in the eastern Luhansk Oblast after weeks of fighting.

Severodonetsk is not a Pyrrhic but a telling Russian victory

The war in Ukraine is a multi-dimensional disaster, which is likely to get much worse in the foreseeable future.

As weapons inventories dwindle, there’s little chance the West today can build a surge hardware-making capacity

If the war is to ever end, it will have to do so through some form of pragmatic compromise.

The war in Ukraine has dragged on long enough now to reveal certain clear trajectories.

Germany and France want peace while the US and UK push for more war