Tuesday
In January of 2022, the population of Ukraine was around 44million. Today it sits at less than 20million. Many have emigrated, many have died. They sought a war against Russia and they got it – good and hard. They were promised unlimited support by the U.S./N.A.T.O. It turned out to be limited support and the Ukraine military was swatted aside by the impressive Russian military.
Did the U.S./N.A.T.O. force this war in the belief that Ukraine could win? If not, and surely they could not have been that stupid, then what was the real reason?
A more logical, though horrible, reason is that they knew that the Ukraine troops would be slaughtered, but they assessed that the process would severely weaken Russia. The inevitable destabilisation would allow the U.S. to gain access to Russia’s resources.
It did no such thing; quite the opposite.
It is the U.S. that has been weakened; quite probably permanently.
Ukraine has been destroyed, as have U.S. pretensions to world hegemony.
Ukraine has been destroyed by their lunatic president. Only old women and old men – really old men – remain. Will the recent emigres return? Some will; most probably will not. Ukraine’s infrastructure has been destroyed. The industrialized east has been permanently lost. No power, no jobs – what’s to go back to?
What is left of the old Ukraine will be permanently de-militarised. That part which used to be a part of Hungary will probably be returned, with the proviso that no N.A.T.O. presence of any sort will be permitted. It is doubtful that Poland or Rumania would be trusted with the same option.
Will N.A.T.O. continue to exist? It has been exposed as an expensive toothless tiger.
The Ukraine proxy war will go down as the greatest ever strategic cock-up.