Western elites fret over Ukraine and Gaza… and Russian nukes, by Martin Jay

It’s appalling how unimpressive and uninspiring the U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken is, especially when seen in person. From Martin Jay at strategic-culture.su:

The West is losing and the hope that Blinken has in the establishment there to keep up a failing military campaign is misguided and foolish.

With the unannounced visit of Anthony Blinken in Kiev recently, there was naturally a great deal of speculation as to what the mindset is in Washington during an election year not only for the U.S. but for the EU as well – and let’s not forget Britain whose leader just announced a snap election which caught everyone off guard.

Western elites are getting skittish. And they have a lot on their plates to justify their nervous twitches of late. The recent meeting between Russian and Chinese leaders affirmed the message to them: “Mulitpolar world is coming quite fast”. In Ukraine, there is little point any more in faking it. The West is losing and the hope that Blinken has in the establishment there to keep up a failing military campaign is misguided and foolish. Desperation now is no longer opaque and shrouded in a smoke and mirrors of fake news by western journalists who only have their NATO talking points to write up. Now it is palpable.

Barely a week passes without a new measure taken by either NATO or President Zelensky which must have a devastating impact on morale.

Just recently Zelensky signed into law a bill allowing some Ukrainian convicts to serve in the country’s military in exchange for the possibility of parole at the end of their service, a move described even my the New York Times as “Kyiv’s desperate attempts to replenish its forces after more than two years of war.”

Of course for those criminals to benefit from their contribution they also have to live, an unlikely scenario for most of them on the front line of battle surrounded by old men or 25-year olds making up the numbers of what has been dubbed the “meat grinder”.

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