BOTH WESTERN & UKRAINIAN LEADERSHIPS READY THEIR MUD FOR SLINGING

The truth cannot be tolerated, it is too awful to face, therefore some form of fiction that shields the guilty must take its place. In tandem with total avoidance of the truth many excuses blaming the other side will have been long-readied, a generous supply of mud for ‘those over there’.

The entire panoply of western leaderships are continuing to surround themselves in mirages of misinformation and fact-avoiding breast-beating over Ukraine rather than facing anything as onerous as the facts.

Those facts are of course incredibly hard to face considering the assumption of western leaders that they are hugely righteous, amounting to the greatest collective global power in existence to whom the concept of defeat is entirely unknown. And that defeat, now rushing up to meet them in Ukraine therefore is entirely unthinkable.

Ukraine is going from one defeat to another, talking all the while of an eventual victory. Its political and military are as self-inflictedly blind to the stark reality facing them as their counterparts in Washington. That reality is imminent defeat and complete humiliation.

Therefore, happily for all of them (for the time being) everything is wished away by means of one total fantasy or another including copious amount of fake narrative and outright propaganda.

Unfortunately for them however, reality has a nasty habit sooner or laterof smashing headlong into even the most beloved of fantasies And, if you look closely you will now see those fantasies beginning to leak at the seams, this being evidenced by signs of an inevitable blame game starting to occur.

The first example concerns Joe Biden, who for no evident reason, brought up the fact that Zelensky had initially been unwilling to accept the fact that Russia was about to initiate a campaign in Ukraine. It was a purely gratuitous criticism about a situation more than three months earlier that had no current context to explain it, except an indication from Biden (and perhaps a warning to Zelensky) that if things carried on as they appeared wont to do mud-slinging would not be one-sided in the event of an eventual debacle.

Then there was the article in the New York Times which bemoaned the fact that the western powers knew much more about Russia’s military tactics and activities than about those of Ukraine, giving the distinct (and false) impression that they were to some degree in the dark due to Ukraine not providing adequate information. I predict we will hear more of this kind of talk in due course.

On the Ukrainian side we can also see the mud being gathered ready for slinging. The USA, UK and Europe failed to supply the weaponry that Ukraine needed to win. Despite all the fervent pleading they simply refudsed to give Ukraine what it so desperately required.

Neither Zelensky nor any of those in the front line of Ukraine’s leadership are going to capitulate. They are going to act in defiant fashion, forever calling for more assistance by way of heavy weaponry, never for a moment suggesting any desire to come to any agreement with Russia, always ready to fight to the last man. However, the western world is rapidly diminishing in its ability or willingness to supply what the Ukrainian leadership demands.

Zelensky and his people cannot change their tune now, to capitulate for them means almost certain death, or at least perpetual ignominy. A much safer strategy is to keep breast-beating, keep posturing heroically, keep insisting on eventual victory and most important of all, keep demanding more weaponry from the West.

This latter point is vital as it provides the mud to sling later when the protective spin for them will be that they fought like devils for Ukraine but were let down by those promised so much but then failed to deliver.

There is no way Zelensky and his minions can agree to talks with Russia now. This route, offered by Russia, was taken only a few weeks into Russia’s campaign. It was even bearing some fruit. Ukraine agreed to some important aspects that provided some hope that continued talks might bring a meaningful breakthrough. Then the western leaders convinced Zelensky to break off these talks and renege on the progress made. Chief of those who convinced Zelensky to do this was Boris Johnson. Undoubtedly Joe Biden had a hand in it also. It seems Zelensky was told that if he abandoned talks with Russia he would be delivered overwhelming firepower with which to defeat Russia.

This defeat of Russia is now obvious by its absence. Yet both the western leaders and Ukraine make a pretence of confidence in an ‘if only’ notion. If only the West had provided the number of weapons required and if only Ukraine had informed the West of the true facts of how things were going.

It is becoming ever more clear however that both of these ‘if only’ factors are also going to be obvious by their absence. The logistics of providing the arms, ammunition and training necessary by the West make the first part of the task unattainable and the decimation of Ukrainian troops via tactical incompetence by Ukraine make the second part unattainable also. Besides, Russia has the manufacturing base to supply and resupply both men and materiel on such an unlimited basis to defeat Ukraine no matter what is done now.

We will no doubt see this theatre of the absurd continue whereby both the western powers and the Zelensky regime talk pie in the sky while that sky increasing falls down upon them. Neither of them appears willing to face reality. Too much is at stake for them personally if they do.

Meanwhile Ukrainian troops die in their droves.

The politicians of Kiev, Washington, London and Brussels are doing their level best to save their own necks while the abominable suffering in Ukraine drags ever on.

No talks. No concessions. More deaths. More territory taken.

But, despite everything the heroic status of Zelensky will be determinedly retained until the end with a finger resolutely pointing at the foot-draggers of the West who let his country down. In the USA and across the western world we will hear a different refrain however, one that talks of Ukrainian officials providing “inaccurate information”, officials who talked up victories that had no reality to them but that conjured up only in their own minds.

So it will go, I predict.