HOW MANY UKRAINIAN LIVES MUST BE LOST IN AN ATTEMPT TO SAVE WESTERN POLITICAL REPUTATIONS?

Russia was never going to be defeated as the western powers hoped, not since it survived the onslaught of western sanctions. From that point of realisation the West ought to have sued for peace.

The current figure for Ukrainian army losses since the outbreak of violent confrontation in February 2022 stands at just over half a million. Another thousand or so are added to that figure each day. These losses were brought about by the complete absence of anything approaching diplomacy regarding Russia’s concerns over its security. 

The violence began much earlier of course, in the first few months of 2014. It was then that the Ukrainian army arrived in eastern Ukraine and began their campaign of terror against the civilian population there. You can be forgiven for not knowing anything about this campaign as western mainstream/legacy media maintained a vow of silence concerning it for an entire decade. Even now it will not be spoken of by any mainstream media news outlet across the western world.

There were reports from eastern Ukraine but they were composed of an inference that every wrong occurring there was the result of Russian influence. This was a crime of omission by all western mainstream news media editors. The deaths were reported but not those who were responsible. They were silent on this point. It was left to the biased slant implying Russian wrong-doing to give the impression to readers and viewers alike that it had been the Russians who had caused these deaths.

In fact it was the Ukrainian armed forces and neo-Nazi militias who had committed these crimes against humanity. By setting up their mortars and sending random shells into the villages, towns and cities of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions it cannot possibly be more obvious to news editors in the West who is responsible. Yet not a word was spoken clarifying this clear fact. The Ukrainian army laid siege to these regions and began a slaughter in 2014 that continues to this day.

Even now you will not hear the fact of the continuing Ukrainian army crimes against humanity, against innocent civilians, that go on day after day. It simply doesn’t suit the common elite western interest to relate this fact. The civilian population of these regions are already dead to the cold, calculating minds of western politicians, news editors and commentators. They have been rendered null and void ever since they stood up to be counted against the west-assisted insurrectionists who stole their democracy on Kiev’s Maidan Square in 2014.

Despite the horrors perpetrated upon the Russian-speaking civilian population of the Donbass regions Vladimir Putin went every extra mile to gain them the level of autonomy that could bring peace about. He was thwarted by notorious trickery by the western elites, people like Angela Merkel and Francoise Hollande who never had any intention of moving the situation toward a peaceful outcome, there goal was to give the Ukrainian regime time to rearm and bring its army up to NATO specifications. They conspired in essence to move an already bad situation toward an even worse one of all out war. 

The absolutely horrendous toll of lost Ukrainian troops which heads this commentary grows each day. The hands of Merkel and Hollande run bloody as they are directly responsible. And even now, we see not a single leading western politician in the USA, UK or EU calling for negotiations that could lead to peace. No diplomacy is advocated, all that you hear are calls for more war, more weapons and more munitions for Ukraine. War, war and ever more war. A thousand are lost to the Ukrainian army per day yet no one among the western political elites or those who run mainstream media news call for an end to this bloodbath.

The western political elites must know that their long planned undermining of Russia and regime change there has failed. As soon as it became clear that Russia was not going to be brought to catastrophic ruin through the West’s sanctions after being goaded and pressured to start its operation in Ukraine. The Russian economy was meant to collapse. It didn’t. The Russian population was supposed to rise up and sweep away the present Russian hierarchy. It didn’t happen. Yet still the western elites press on in the knowledge that the gambit to bring down Russia is causing thousands of lives to be lost to no purpose save one, a vain attempt to somehow, some way to save their reputations,

Fantasy, wishful thinking and barefaced lies are in epidemic proportions across all western elites who have any connection to the situation in Ukraine. The uniformity of the delusion they suffer under is both striking and frightening. They desperately seek to guard their reputations at the expense of immense Ukrainian suffering. What won’t such people do in support of their impossible aim of bringing Russia down? What atrocities are such people willing to contemplate? How many hundreds of thousands of partially trained, Ukrainian cannon-fodder are they willing to see die or be horrendously injured just to save what is overwhelmingly vital for all of them, their oh-so-important reputations?