Even if by some miracle the regime in Kiev could gather a few hundred thousand more hapless conscripts together it must be in doubt how long they would last on the battlefield with the few weeks of basic training they now receive. These final conscripts must surely be the least experienced and least motivated yet. All that could be expected of them perhaps is that they hold a gun and don a uniform before they are blown away without firing a shot.
This conflict is clearly lost. While Russia can make widespread missile attacks time after time, what earthly chance does the Kiev regime have of mounting anything approaching an effective challenge? This whole thing has developed into a West-sponsored, long-drawn-out mass suicide for Ukraine. It is long overdue that a halt was called and the modest Russian demands are acceded to.
To observe this ongoing tragedy for any length of time is excruciating for anyone not completely caught up within a partisan mania filling them with hatred for whoever they conceive their enemy to be. This cold-blooded perspective can only be maintained at a distance where the grotesque daily horrors of the battlefield are viewed almost as if they were onscreen features of a computer game. No blood, no screams of pain, no bodies ripped apart. No loved ones back home grieving considered. A sanguine gazing at a screen with only the occasional thought of satisfaction that others and not ourselves are doing the suffering and dying.
There are those however who feel nothing at all for any of the combatants in this war that never should have been. Those who continue to promote the Ukraine war, urging its continuation into some unseen and uncertain future. People such as Anthony Blinken, U.S. Secretary of State along with the coterie of U.S. Neocons that have similarly cauterized emotions. They clearly manage the task of compartmentalizing their foreign policy ambitions from the heart-wrenching realities of the battlefield. The same clearly goes for Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commision and the majority of EU nation leaders and officials. At every turn they resist any and all calls for the abomination of this war to be brought to a close.
In the USA and in Europe however, there are a growing number of politicians who recognise the utter tragedy of the war and are determined to stand against the tide and call for it to be ended through negotiations and a permanent settlement. No one doubts that the war will end in negotiations sometime in the future, however on the Blinken/Von der Leyen side that time is never now. Politicians in Europe such as Victor Orban of Hungary and Robert Fico of Slovakia have long called for negotiations to begin immediately and for an end to the fuelling of the war by both the USA and EU. They have been joined in recent times by the U.S. president-to-be, Donald Trump and many who he has picked to be in his administration.
With somewhere between two and three thousand deaths/injuries occurring per day it is clear that this monstrous conflict is inflicting a monstrous on all sides, Ukrainians, Russians, Poles, U.S. and UK troops, and those of many other nations, who are fighting on the front lines. The trauma involved stretches out from the battlefield to involve an increasing number who look on in horror. The fighting in Ukraine and the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza and in the West Bank is traumatising and dividing the entire world. We have never been as divided as a species in the way we view the wars we have been in recently and on those raging now.
The attitude of the Biden administration, following on from previous U.S. administrations, is that where nations differ substantially from those in the West in regard to governance then they are fair game for covert or overt destabilization, even to the extent of fomenting war within them. Using non-governmental organizations (NGOs) societies are split apart and elements within them weaponized against their governments. In addition, punitive sanctions are applied affecting the poorest in those societies in the hope of making them rise up and bring down their national leaders. This was effected most dramatically during the Maidan insurrection against Ukraine’s democratically-elected president and government in 2014.
There are those in leadership positions across the western world who clearly find it easy to ignore the suffering of millions when it comes to the achievement of their most fervent goals regarding regime change and their desire to achieve full global domination in perpetuity. This latter goal is in truth what the wars fragmenting our world are all about. The western powers are fighting to retain their geopolitical pole position that they have held for so very long now. Since 9/11 they have been motivated not only to shore this domination up wherever it is at risk of being weakened, but to push ever forward to an unassailable position of what they call, ‘full spectrum dominance’ ie. total global control.
No amount of suffering, death, destruction, chaos or fragmentation of nations can emotionally touch those who believe that the ends, in every case, always justify the means. They will use whatever tools that come to hand in their project to reach a position where they exercise total control. No ethical, moral or legal barrier will restrict them. No plea to their collective conscience will affect them. For them war is an effective tool whereby they can disrupt the status quo and create the chaos they need in order to bring down their target leaders and raise their choices to power. This was seen most clearly after the Maidan riots where the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt and the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, Victoria Nuland decided who would be the new government of Ukraine.
Those who see their role in the world as regime change warriors cannot afford a conscience. They have risen to the positions they currently hold due to the ability they have to eye events only with the coldest, analytical and tactical thoughts in mind. On the global chessboard they visualize only their next moves. The blood-strewn chessboard is never in sight. These are quite unique individuals whose latent compassion and capacity for fellow-feeling regarding those they disagree with has been long excised from them. They gaze down from on high, completely convinced of their being exceptional and all-knowing, wise beyond any need for advice, coldly manipulating our world in supreme arrogance. These are the sociopaths whose work we now see in both Ukraine and the Middle East. Their ice-cold hearts can devastate every last one of us if we do not remove them from power… and soon.
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