Russia is fighting, and winning, a methodical war of attrition and seems to be in no hurry to end it. From Pepe Escobar at strategic-culture.org:
Somewhere in her private pantheon, Pallas Athena, Goddess of Geopolitics, is immensely enjoying the show.
No one ever lost money capitalizing on the unlimited nonsense spewed out by the collective deer caught in the headlights also known as Western mainstream media – complete with showering Person of the Year awards on a megalomaniac, cocaine-fueled lousy actor impersonating a warlord.
The non-stop trashy parade of Western military analysts is now “assessing” that the first targets of an incoming, joint Russia-Belarus attack on the 404 black hole formerly known as Ukraine will be Lviv, Lutsk, Rivne, Zhytomyr, and why not throw Kiev in the mix straight out of a second axis.
The Russian General Staff is attentively monitoring all the action and may even follow the advice of such “analysts”.
And then there’s outright panic, as the Ministry of Defense announced that the Strategic Missile Forces have loaded two Yars ICBMs into their intended silos. Cue to widespread shrieks of horror of the “Russia Readies Nuclear Missile Capable Of Striking Deep Into US” variety.
Some facts though never change. Number One is NATO as a figment of the collective West’s – extremely impaired – imagination. If push ever came to shove – as Straussian/neo-con armchair warriors hope and pray – Russia can conveniently defeat the whole of NATO as there is hardly anything “there”.
STRAIGHT LINE LOGIC 
Keep an eye on Poland and various “advisers” posted on borders.
There won’t be any 2003 rah rah fweedom fwies cannon fodder fest back in das Homeland or Former USA.
That is long gone never to return.
Note to all 18 year olds in the unity collective-don’t forget to sign up for selective service.
And yes they are just that stupid and evil in the imperial putrid cess ridden vermin swamp to think that the only winning move is to play.
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