by Michael

Let’s be sincere about what is de facto occurring in Ukraine.  The US is offering a lot of the funding, a lot of the tools, a lot of the ammunition, a lot of the excessive stage intelligence and far of the coaching.  That makes america a direct participant within the battle.  Sure, many different NATO international locations are additionally contributing in numerous methods, and that makes them direct individuals as nicely.  However the mainstream media right here within the western world continues to insist that that is Ukraine’s conflict and that we’re simply serving to them out.  Certainly, Ukraine has misplaced an unlimited variety of troopers over the course of 2022, however at this level the Ukrainians are actually a junior accomplice within the conflict.  If the U.S. and NATO had not intervened on an epic scale, the conflict would already be over and Russia would have received.  Sadly, now that we’re so deeply invested within the battle there is no such thing as a simple approach out, and that has very critical implications for all of us.

A lot of the dying and destruction that we’ve already witnessed might have been prevented so simply, and we ought to be continuously pushing our flesh pressers to discover a peaceable approach out of this mess earlier than nuclear weapons are used.  Again in 2020, I revealed a ebook during which I particularly warned that conflict with Russia could be coming, and lots of people thought that I used to be nuts to say such a factor.  However positive sufficient we now have a conflict with Russia.

And the Russians are very clear about who they’re actually preventing.  Earlier this month, Russian International Minister Sergey Lavrov boldly declared that the U.S. and NATO are “straight taking part” within the battle in Ukraine…

“You shouldn’t say that the US and NATO aren’t participating on this conflict, you’re straight taking part in it,” Lavrov mentioned in a video name with reporters. “And never simply by offering weapons but additionally by coaching personnel. You’re coaching their navy in your territory, on the territories of Britain, Germany, Italy, and different international locations.”

I want that this wasn’t true.

Sadly, on this specific case Lavrov is kind of right.

Most Individuals don’t understand this, however Ukrainian troopers are being flown into america on a regular basis.  The next comes from a BBC article about one location in Kansas the place Ukrainian officers have been receiving “strategic coaching”…

Senior-level Ukrainian officers have been learning within the US state of Kansas, 1000’s of miles from Russia’s invasion and the battlefields of Donbas.

Outdoors the Fort Leavenworth military base, wheat fields are beginning to flip. Broad, open prairie land, with softly rolling hills, stretches for miles, and the sky is big.

This quintessentially Kansas panorama has grow to be the backdrop for generations of worldwide troopers, who head to the US base to obtain strategic coaching.

After all Ukrainians are additionally being educated within the UK and in different NATO international locations as nicely.

Until we really wish to be thought-about direct individuals within the conflict, we shouldn’t be doing this.

All of us must also be deeply alarmed by how a lot cash we’re giving to Ukraine.

Based on the Kiel Institute, as of October third the U.S. had already given 54.43 billion {dollars} value of navy and non-military support to the Ukrainians…

Ultimately I tracked down a database operated by the Kiel Institute, a German suppose tank. They’ve been monitoring complete navy and non-military support to Ukraine because the starting of the battle. Their numbers embrace all support from Jan. 24, 2022 to Oct. 3, 2022 (the info is scheduled for an replace on Dec. 6).

Based on Kiel, the U.S. has transferred navy and non-military support value $54.43 billion to the federal government of Ukraine. The database Kiel has maintained is by far essentially the most granular and detailed accounting of what the U.S. authorities has supplied to Ukraine, together with descriptions of the person batches of navy tools. If you happen to’re , you possibly can test it out right here.

Evidently, extra support has been approved for the Ukrainians since October third.

So the grand complete is even greater now.

At this level we’ve really spent far, far extra money on the conflict than the Ukrainians have.

The Ukraine navy is now outfitted with leading edge tools and ammunition, however all of that cash is being spent in different methods as nicely.

Huge hordes of worldwide mercenaries have been employed to battle, and your tax {dollars} are paying for them.

You see, the reality is that the Ukrainian military that existed originally of the conflict has largely been destroyed.  To exchange them, Ukraine conscripted a complete bunch of latest troopers, and so they additionally employed giant numbers of mercenaries from different nations in Europe.

Sure, there are some western Europeans and Individuals among the many mercenaries, however the overwhelming majority of them seem like from the poorer international locations of jap Europe.

Sadly, most of us don’t appear to care that these poor mercenaries are being fed into an infinite meatgrinder that’s in contrast to something that we’ve seen because the worst days of World Struggle I…

As Russia moved recent formations to the realm in latest weeks, together with reinforcements beforehand within the Kherson area, the preventing within the Bakhmut sector has descended into trench warfare paying homage to the primary world conflict.

Over the weekend, photographs emerged of Ukrainian troopers in flooded, muddy trenches and battlefields dotted with the stumps of timber minimize down by withering artillery barrages.

For a second, I would really like so that you can think about what it’s prefer to be a soldier on the entrance traces in jap Ukraine.

Think about standing in a muddy trench that’s stuffed up with water as much as your waist.  Your tooth are chattering like loopy due to the bitter chilly, however you don’t dare crawl out of the ditch since you are more likely to be killed.  Your socks are soaked, your underwear is soaked and every thing else you’re sporting is soaked.  Each side are endlessly shelling each other, and so it’s nearly inconceivable so that you can sleep.  There are lifeless our bodies throughout you for so far as the attention can see, and also you simply hope that it is possible for you to to make it by way of one other day one way or the other.

At navy hospitals all throughout jap Ukraine, there’s an infinite parade of the lifeless and the wounded.  The next comes from the New York Occasions…

For nearly an hour, the stream of Ukrainian casualties within the jap metropolis of Bakhmut appeared endless: Ambulances, an armored personnel service and personal automobiles all screamed to a halt, one after one other, and disgorged the wounded in entrance of the town’s solely navy hospital.

A soldier propped up by his comrades, his face a mass of mangled flesh, walked in the primary gate. The darkish inexperienced stretcher that awaited him was considered one of a number of nonetheless lined in blood.

Sadly, there is no such thing as a finish to the conflict in sight.

In reality, each side simply proceed to escalate issues.  The Ukrainians at the moment are recurrently shelling targets inside Russian territory, and the Russians at the moment are systematically going after energy and water techniques throughout Ukraine.

That is going to be an especially bitter winter for each the Ukrainians and the Russians.

And as this conflict intensifies, there’s a rising danger that somebody might finally use weapons of mass destruction.

As soon as that occurs, there can be no going again.