Russia Ukraine war, page-167067

The kinetic war in Ukraine has gotten less attention over the summer than in past periods due to the much-previewed-and-hyped counteroffensive in the southern oblast of Zaporzhizhia being worse than a bust. Yet we’ll give some examples below of how the Western press, to a large degree, is applying unimaginable amounts of porcine maquillage to Ukraine’s deteriorating situation. At best, this is a desperate effort to keep the war going in the hope that somehow, someway, luck or divine intervention will shift the tide in the West’s favor. But the damage to Ukraine is catastrophic, and the cost to the European economy from sanctions blowback, to arms stocks in the US and NATO member states, and of the fiscal commitment distorting national priorities (guns over butter in societies already showing social decay and fracture) is not shabby either.

From time to time we’ve repeated the advice we first heard from the investment bankers at Lazard to their CEO clients, of the dangers of believing their own PR.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/west-and-war-ukraine-selling-buying-hopium

They need to change the word in the title to Ukropium.

It is a disaster for Ukraine.

THe West/NATO/ US continue to be engaged in a delusional denial as to what is happening on the ground. Ukraine is getting put through the grinder and yet the West/NATO/US are engaged in a fantasy narrative