{"id":21823,"date":"2023-12-11T19:42:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T19:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=21823"},"modified":"2023-12-11T19:42:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T19:42:04","slug":"mainstream-media-bitterly-comes-to-terms-with-vladimir-putins-successes-in-the-ukraine-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=21823","title":{"rendered":"Mainstream Media Bitterly Comes to Terms With Vladimir Putin\u2019s Successes in the Ukraine War"},"content":{"rendered":"

The reality of Putin\u2019s victories in the Ukraine war is hard for the MSM to swallow.<\/strong><\/p>\n

All over the relentless news cycle, the once all-powerful Mainstream Media is doing endless rounds to warm up the unsuspecting public to the seemingly inevitable fact of the upcoming Russian victory in the Ukraine war.<\/p>\n

The most painful (for them) exercises have to deal with the fact that the Russian President is personally on the cusp of a major military and geopolitical victory.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the bitterest pill for the mockingbirds.<\/p>\n

Read: <\/strong>Belt and Road Summit: Honored by China, With a Host of Bilateral Meetings, Putin Is Much Less Isolated Than Western Propaganda Would Have You Believe<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s interesting to take a look at an opinion piece by Daniel Hannan for the Daily Telegraph<\/a> \u2013 which incidentally is a politically conservative paper that has endorsed the Conservative Party at every UK general election since 1945.<\/p>\n

Much like the Tories in the last decades, there is a heavy Globalist streak tainting the British \u2018conservative\u2019 coverage of this war.<\/p>\n

I highlight this piece not for the profundity of the insight or for any appreciation of the tired geopolitical takes \u2013 but, on the contrary, as a shining early example of how the MSM is being dragged \u2013 and will continue to be dragged \u2013 kicking and screaming, into admitting the defeat of their Ukrainian wishful-thinking.<\/p>\n

He begins conceding that \u201cUkraine\u2019s counteroffensive has failed \u2013 or, in Volodymyr Zelensky\u2019s words, \u2018did not achieve the desired results\u2019.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

As the initiative is swinging to the Russian Federation forces and international aid begins to run out, Ukraine\u2019s first lady, Olena Zelenska, went on the BBC to warn that her country is in \u2018mortal danger\u2019.<\/p>\n

Read: The Putin-Kim Alliance in Action: Rail Traffic Between the Countries Spike, After Reported Beginning of North Korean Weapons and Ammunitions Deliveries to Russia<\/a><\/h2>\n

Hannan highlights the Russian big demographic advantage, the industrial drive to war, and says they \u2018may now have the edge when it comes to drones\u2019<\/em> \u2013 which is a cope by the writer, since the superiority by now is clear and undisputed.<\/p>\n

He dares utter the feared words: \u201cRussia has made it through to winter without a Ukrainian breakthrough.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

He is ready to admit to have been deluded as \u2018one of those who expected Ukraine to break through to the Sea of Azov, a move that might well have ended the war\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy did I get it wrong? I had been talking not only to Ukrainians, but to British military observers with direct knowledge of the battlefield. They had watched the extraordinary Ukrainian gains in Kharkiv and Kherson in 2022 \u2013 gains that had emboldened the West to offer the kinds of mat\u00e9riel that they had previously held back from sending, lest it fall into enemy hands.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

This is hardly the forum for that discussion, but while Ukrainians did re-conquer Kharkov, in Kherson Russian forces \u2013 who in fact are very averse to troop losses \u2013 retreated across the Dnieper fearing that Ukraine would explode the Dam and flood the region \u2013 which ended up happening later in the war.<\/p>\n

But the author is right that the often-sung victories \u2013 they have to forget they lost Bakhmut since that period, but oh, well \u2013 gave impetus to backers, and Ukraine now had long-range missiles, mine-clearing kit and modern tanks for their troops.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the invaders had learnt from their earlier mistakes. While Ukraine rushed to train its men in how to operate their new weapons last spring, Russia seeded mile after mile of landmines, built fortifications, dug trenches and amassed drones.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

He reaches a painful admission that \u2018Putin needs only to hang on for another 12 months\u2019 \u2013 which is another cope, because Russians are not \u2018hanging in\u2019, they are advancing in many parts of the front.<\/p>\n

Read: Russia\u2019s Putin Claims Charges Against Trump Are Simple \u2018Political Persecution\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Allow me to skip his detestable takes about Donald Trump and the republicans \u2013 his feelings are hurt.<\/p>\n

He goes on to say that \u2018You can\u2019t have missed the spring in Putin\u2019s step<\/em>\u2018 \u2013 which is a keen observation \u2013 as he visits UAE and Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

Putin\u2019s victory will signal to the world that NATO could not succeed in \u2018rescuing\u2019 a country that the US and the UK promised to protect.<\/p>\n

Read: Ukrainian Forces Are Running Out of Artillery Shells as Russia Presses With Offensive \u2013 New Military Aid Has Fallen by 90%<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Next Hannan has an almost mea-culpa over the reality of Ukraine\u2019s increasingly authoritarian political system.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe case for intervention in Ukraine is not that it is a liberal democracy. [\u2026] Russophile parties have been banned, and there is a worry that the crackdown might extend to pro-Western opposition politicians, too. This week, I was at a meeting of global Centre-Right parties at which Petro Poroshenko, the former president, was meant to speak. At the last minute, he and two of his MPs were banned from leaving Ukraine \u2013 and though Poroshenko patriotically declined to make a fuss, it left me wondering, not for the first time, why Zelensky refuses to draw other parties into a wartime coalition.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

He may be wondering, but we know for sure.<\/p>\n

Read: Defender of Democracy? Increasingly Authoritarian Zelensky Forbids Former President Poroshenko From Leaving Ukraine, Calls Him \u2018A Tool in the Hands of the Russians\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

His final take is also worth sharing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile we are not ourselves at war this time, we are so invested in the Ukrainian cause that a Russian victory \u2013 and absorbing conquered territory is a Russian victory, present it how you will \u2013 would mean a catastrophic loss of prestige for the West and the ideas associated with it: personal freedom, democracy and human rights.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Russia Confirms Presidential Elections for March 2024 \u2013 Unlike Ukraine\u2019s Zelensky Who Cancelled Vote Because of the War, Putin Is Set To Win His Fifth Term in Office<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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