This dishonesty advances the US’ escalation control and soft power interests.

If it weren’t for the English Channel, and the Royal Navy, this country would either be a heavily armed police state or a subject province in someone else’s empire.

While NATO proxy warriors rejoice at an assault inside Russia with US weapons, Ukraine is failing to achieve its immediate goals and newly undermining long-term survival.

The concentration of Ukrainian forces in the Sumy region had not gone unnoticed, as numerous sources reported. What was surprising, however, was the unexpected use of this military force. One might have thought that this gathering was intended to reduce the salient created by the Russians in the Kharkiv region, or that it was a preparation for a hypothetical Russian attack in the Sumy sector, a possibility mentioned by the Ukrainian authorities a few weeks ago.

As the Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk Region rolls on, war conditions have appeared in Russia for the first time since the Second World War. It is a stunning experience that an estimated 180,000 people have become internally displaced.

Ukraine’s Kursk offensive has killed off any chance of ceasefire talks beginning any time soon, Russian diplomats say.

Ukrainian soldiers are overmatched in some areas and deployments in the trenches can stretch for months

More territory in Donetsk region is taken while Kyiv presses ahead with its cross-border incursion into Kursk

The Pentagon is already working through fixes to allow Ukraine to launch the weapons from its fighter planes.

What is the point of this campaign, if not just to prolong the war?