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Britain's top military minister Ben Wallace was in Kiev this week on a
surprise visit -
only days after the stunning news of Russian forces finally taking the city of Artyomovsk (Bakhmut).This year marks the 80th anniversary of the same city being liberated by the Soviet Red Army from the Nazi Wehrmacht and their Ukrainian fascist collaborators.
The shockwaves from the defeat of the NATO-backed Kiev regime are shaking Western capitals, and none more so than in Washington and London, the two most prominent protagonists of the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.Ben Wallace, like his American counterpart, Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin, is up to his neck in pushing this dangerous proxy war.
The fall of Artyomovsk comes after nearly nine months of intense and grueling fighting, which is reckoned, conservatively, to have cost up to 30,000 Ukrainian military deaths. The defeat of NATO's well-armed proxy army demolishes the relentless propaganda narrative in the Western media claiming Ukraine's eventual success against Russia.
Wallace has been one of the most gung-ho Western politicians,
predicting at the end of last year Ukraine's victory against Russia.
Now, it's a debacle akin to NATO's defeat fiasco in Afghanistan. Questions will be asked: what of all the tens of billions worth of weapons that the West has plowed into Ukraine?
The blowback is going to be torrid for Western posturing about "defending Ukraine for as long as it takes".
Hence, as a diversionary media necessity, we had U.S. President Joe Biden making the U-turn
announcement at the weekend that Washington was giving the go-ahead for supplying the American-made F-16 fighter jet to Ukraine. We also then had the daring
cross-border raid by NeoNazi militants from Ukraine on Russia's Belgorod region, which
appears to have been orchestrated with U.S. support.
Comment: A moment of clarity for potential action? May there be others.