The Russians have shown far more respect for human life during the Ukraine-Russia War than either Ukraine or the U.S. From Patrick Lawrence at consortiumnews.com:
What happens when a powerful nation cannot afford to lose a war it has already lost?
Field of Mars at the Lychakiv Military Cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine, Dec. 2023. (President of Ukraine/Wikimedia Commons)
It is now two and a half years since Moscow sent two draft treaties, one to Washington, one to NATO in Brussels, as the proposed basis of talks toward a new security settlement — a renovation of relations between the trans–Atlantic alliance and the Russian Federation.
An urgently needed renovation, we must quickly add. And after that we must also quickly add the Biden regime’s rejection of Russia’s proposals as a “nonstarter” faster than you can say “deluded.”
Let us pause for a sec to bring to mind all those who have died in the war that erupted in Ukraine a year and a few months after Joe Biden refused, even mocked, Vladimir Putin’s honorable diplomatic demarche. All the maimed and displaced, all the towns and cities destroyed, all the farmland turned into moonscape.
And the all-but-complete peace accord, negotiated in Istanbul a few weeks into the war that the U.S. and Britain rushed to scuttle. And of course all the billions of dollars, somewhere north of $100 billion now, not spent on improving Americans’ lives but spent instead on arming a regime in Kiev that steals aid extravagantly while fielding an army with professed neo–Nazis.
It is useful to recall these things because they give context to a string of recent developments it’s important to understand, even if our corporate media discourage any such understanding.
Victory isn’t on the menu as there are no watches or time for any of this.
Victories are long gone as the faculty lounge fundamentally transformed the military.
Too much online chatter about at least we have the military?
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