Brutal assessment of the war in Ukraine from the West Point of view

“No matter how Western leaders and their media vassals may seek to spin it, the US-led response to what Vladimir Putin called a ‘special military operation’ in eastern Ukraine, has been an unmitigated disaster. In military terms, while the well-trained Ukrainian forces have fought bravely, the final result has never been in doubt. Russia is now close to achieving the goals set out by Putin just prior to the military operation. This month, the Russian Defence Minister Sergei K. Shoigu announced that the Russians had successfully created their desired ‘land bridge’ between the Donbass, Crimea, and Russia….. The worse disaster for the West has been the spectacular failure of the much-vaunted economic sanctions against Russia. A more misguided and frankly imbecilic set of sanctions would be difficult to imagine, than the one designed by the Biden administration and then facilitated by an enthusiastic Brussels, as well as key American allies. We now have a situation where despite being subject to the most punitive Western sanctions in history, Russia has emerged in rude economic health, with inflation dropping and their currency, the ruble, stronger than it was before the military operation started. Not just that, but the EU nations are experiencing an unprecedented economic freefall, much of it caused by the sanctions they championed and that were designed to punish Russia.”

This is an incredibly brutal assessment of the war in Ukraine from the Wests point of view.

Whilst it’s hard to know what exactly is happening on the ground, the economic sanctions are damaging Western economies through inflation brought about by a shortage of raw materials, especially oil and gas.

It has demonstrated just how much neoliberal and woke policies have damaged manufacturing sectors in Western economies and how vulnerable we are to external shocks.

The media of course report none of this. The Western world is going to be in for a rude shock if we don’t wake up to ourselves.