Severodonetsk to fall to Russian forces in coming days while ‘who lost Ukraine?’ debate starting in Washington

Soldiers and volunteers in Bakhmut, Ukraine, are fatigued as the front with Russia moves ‘closer and closer’

One hundred days of all-out war has been plenty of time to get acquainted with the Russian troops.

Americans increasingly wonder where US involvement in the Russo-Ukrainian war is heading. Although this nation is not officially in the fight, it is a belligerent in all but name. US officials have essentially declared war on the Russian Federation and its president, Vladimir Putin.

The White House may say it wants diplomacy but its actions — sending more advanced weapons — could have the opposite effect.

BAKHMUT, Ukraine (AP) — Workers pulled scores of bodies from smashed buildings in an “endless caravan of death” inside the devastated city of Mariupol, authorities said Wednesday, while fears of a global food crisis escalated over Ukraine’s inability to export millions of tons of grain through its blockaded ports.

Intelligence agencies know far more about Russia’s military, even as the United States ships billions of dollars in weapons to the Ukrainians.

The Ukraine War, its complexities and global spillover effects, have not been adequately depicted by either political leaders or the more influential media.

President Joe Biden spoke to the American people after a fashion. He, or whoever writes his material, sought to calm rising fears about the consequences of intervening ever deeper in the Russo-Ukraine war. Early popular enthusiasm for the victims of Russian aggression has given way to more practical concerns over the potential for an expanded war, higher prices, a possible recession, and more.

Unfortunately for establishment critics, the war in Ukraine is making their own case for US primacy less appetizing by the day.