Is this victory? - asks George D. O'Neill Jr., a member of the American Ideas Institute's board of directors on the American Conservative website , adding that Western leaders can no longer hide the truth about Ukraine.

Recently, Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, recklessly revealed the number of Ukrainian lives lost in the war.

"Over 20,000 civilians and 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers are estimated to have died so far"

- He told. The comment sparked a backlash, and the ECJ later cut that part from the video of the speech. The censorship was left unexplained, pointing to the confusion of the mainstream narrative.

If Von der Leyen's estimate is correct, it is nearly ten times the figure announced by the Ukrainian government, and his comment shows that even the strongest supporters of the war can no longer hide the truth: the danger of Ukrainian defeat.

The mainstream media and the Biden administration are endlessly clinging to the idea that Ukraine will defeat Russia. But the facts don't fit their narrative, and both the administration and the media know it—the war hawks are aware that their cynical policies have failed to drive the Russians out of Ukraine.

Tragically, it is the Ukrainians who suffer the incalculable losses of this foreign policy failure, that their nation was destroyed at the behest and instigation of the globalist American empire.

As Ukraine loses the heavily defended and important hubs around Bahmut, the Western press has launched a campaign to downplay the significance of the loss. Here's the report from Defense Express:

"British defense intelligence claims that the capture of Bahmut will become primarily a symbolic, political goal for Russia."

However, based on the results of the last six months, the Ukrainian "victory" looks like this:

The country lost an estimated 20 percent of its territory. At least 22 percent of Ukrainian agricultural land is under Russian control. Minsk II. due to the failure of the agreement, Russia launched a special military operation to liberate these areas from the grip of the Ukrainian government. To date, Russia appears to have come close to achieving some of its original goals.

In May 2022, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reported that nearly eight million Ukrainians had been displaced, and another six million were registered as refugees. This figure will probably be even higher during the winter. As a result of the recent Russian missile attacks on the Ukrainian electricity grid, even more people are leaving Ukraine, and Europe is expecting hundreds of thousands of refugees. The mayor of Kyiv may call for the evacuation of his city because he cannot provide basic services to the population.

CNN reported a month ago that at least 30 percent of Ukraine's power plants had been destroyed. The BBC reports that six million Ukrainians are without electricity. EuroNews reported that 60 percent of Kyiv is struggling with a lack of electricity and 80 percent with a lack of water. However, according to the news, the capital is preparing to survive without electricity, heating and water. Ukraine has evacuated cities that have become uninhabitable, the World Health Organization warns that millions of lives will be "at risk" this winter.

Forbes magazine reports that nearly half of Ukraine is without electricity. Newsweek reported that the Ukrainian energy giant has run out of equipment to deal with power outages. How long can Kiev "work" without electricity?

According to the estimate of the Ukrainian central bank, the country's GDP in 2022 will decrease by 32 percent, inflation will reach 30 percent, and unemployment will also reach 30 percent. According to the New York Times, Ukraine's agriculture has suffered an estimated $23 billion in losses due to the war. The International Monetary Fund informs that the war has led to the largest food shortage since 2008. CNN claims that Ukraine's communications system is entirely dependent on Elon Musk's Starlink system. If there are problems with the system, the country goes dark.

Brookings reports: "The war destroyed at least $127 billion worth of buildings and other infrastructure in the country, according to the Kyiv School of Economics." The Washington Post reports that the Ukrainians are asking for $700 billion in addition to the more than $100 billion the US is sending.

Ukraine faced difficulties in occupying territories protected by the Russians. The recent "victory", the capture of Kherson, is now lost in the fog, the Ukrainian military machine unable to maintain control over a city that has already been evacuated by the enemy. All of the Ukrainian offensives in September and October have stalled, and the Russians appear to be consolidating their defensive lines and dramatically increasing their manpower in the field, while Ukraine is fielding sixty-year-olds.

Ukraine will also lose access to the resources necessary to continue the war. The United States and Europe are running out of weapons to send; the military equipment of the Ukrainians, especially with regard to the artillery, is depreciating, and most of them cannot be replaced by the West.

Foreign Policy reports that NATO officials are very concerned about the shortage. Even the neoconservative Frederick Kagan admits that NATO is not prepared for a conflict like the one in Ukraine.

"NATO didn't really plan to fight these kinds of wars, and by that I mean wars with super-intensive artillery systems, lots of tanks and guns," Kagan told Foreign Policy. "We were not prepared for such a war in the first place."

According to Raytheon's CEO, Ukraine used thirteen years of Javelin production in ten months.

It shouldn't have happened that way though.

Ukraine and Russia could have concluded a lasting peace treaty if the globalist American empire had not intervened.

In March 2022, the two sides appeared to be close to an agreement, at least to clarify the terms aimed at settling the conflict. The agreement seemed to ensure that Ukraine would never join NATO, and that is a cardinal question of the matter. However, the US and UK scuttled the agreement and the war has continued ever since, killing tens of thousands of Ukrainians, Russians and other nationalities.

Their blood is drying on the hands of American and British leaders.

American defense contractors, politicians and think tanks profit at the expense of Ukraine and its hapless citizens.

And Europe is suffering from “maximum sanctions” against Russia, while Ukrainians continue to flee their own country. The people in charge of American foreign policy don't seem to care about all this suffering. They are not interested in destroying Ukraine, only in stabbing Russia.

This is an inevitable product of the Washington mentality of treating people as cattle.

There is no doubt that the price of war is high for Russia; they accounted for themselves and made mistakes during the tragedy.

But the narrative conveyed to the American people was neither honest nor accurate.

What does Ukraine gain by sacrificing tens of thousands of lives and a significant part of its infrastructure? Many Ukrainians have lost loved ones and are facing a brutal winter, all for the sake of people like Ursula von der Leyen, Joe Biden and their neocon "retention officers".

It is time for Western leaders to face the truth, negotiate and finally save the Ukrainian people from further tragedies that await them.

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