Hopium is all the West and Ukraine have. From Yves Smith at nakedcapitalism.com:
The kinetic war in Ukraine has gotten less attention over the summer than in past periods due to the much-previewed-and-hyped counteroffensive in the southern oblast of Zaporzhizhia being worse than a bust. Yet we’ll give some examples below of how the Western press, to a large degree, is applying unimaginable amounts of porcine maquillage to Ukraine’s deteriorating situation. At best, this is a desperate effort to keep the war going in the hope that somehow, someway, luck or divine intervention will shift the tide in the West’s favor. But the damage to Ukraine is catastrophic, and the cost to the European economy from sanctions blowback, to arms stocks in the US and NATO member states, and of the fiscal commitment distorting national priorities (guns over butter in societies already showing social decay and fracture) is not shabby either.
From time to time we’ve repeated the advice we first heard from the investment bankers at Lazard to their CEO clients, of the dangers of believing their own PR. Here we see this psychopathy as a mass phenomenon as too many individuals in or near positions of authority keep repeating things that are bunk and genuinely seem to believe them. And that is occurring even as more and more Administration-friendly outlets are signaling the counteroffensive is going badly.
The apparatchiks took it seriously when Turd Blossom Karl Rove stated that we make our own reality.
Comrade Karl Marx agrees as reality is a construct of the white male patriarchy.
There has to be a mission accomplished moment for OBrandon by any means necessary with sporty aviation sunglasses and bike parked by the festive bunting.
The War Pigs don’t care one white about the KIA count or the cost of rebuilding as corporate comrades are in line to build it back better.
The comeuppance for the fake GAE empire of lies will come externally.
how many lives has the arrogance of the west claimed in that corruptocracy? the evil of the west grows daily. it will not last forever. there will come a day of atonement. may it come with vengeance and determination directed at the evil people who always and everywhere do the same thing.