Without historical context, buried by corporate media, it’s impossible to understand Ukraine. Historians will tell the story. But the Establishment hits back at journalists, like at CN, who try to tell it now.

While Western leaders still talk of total victory against Russia, they risk ignoring a grim reality with no end in sight.

”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.

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.

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

Game pretty much over in Ukraine.