Early this morning, the news was the usual, The Ukraine, with NATO weapons, are easily defeating the Russians, a story we've seen pretty much non-stop since 24 Feb 2022. The first story today was Russia forced to re-mobilise Soviet-era T-62 tanks due to losses .
But not long after that header, the Ukraine complained that they lost Liman (or Lyman). Horror of horrors, their first loss (Mariupol doesn't count, that was completely destroyed in the Western press, so Russia didn't really win anything).
So the next header was Live Updates: Russian Attacks Intensify, Along With Accusations of Genocide
If the Russians are winning, then it must be genocide, as far as the Western media are concerned.
And then Zelensky asked for long range missiles, and Biden and Johnson promised to send him some.
We don't know for certain what 'long range' means. Zelensky almost certainly means Moscow, but Biden and Johnson might be a teeny bit smarter than that.
But I wouldn't bet on it.
They might figure Russia will just carpet bomb Kiev, or maybe all of the Ukraine. What, if anything, is going through their minds escapes me.
But Russia are very unlikely to blame Kiev if a missile hits Moscow. And I have no idea how they'll respond.
So far, the Western sanctions are destroying Europe (good, the US do not want any Western European rivals who could challenge the US economically), those sanctions are causing some pain in the US (but only for the rabble, and they've been told they must sacrifice to save Democracy, and they're not complaining much), and doing little or nothing to hurt Russia. So how to destroy Russia? Missiles hitting Moscow?
Somehow, I think Moscow knows ways to make the West suffer far more than Russia, no matter what they try.
Unless the West goes for total destruction of the entire planet. That's one way to make sure a non-existent Russia and a non-existent PRC cannot challenge a non-existent West.
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