I don't talk about Ukraine much because, strategically, it's been over for years. But now, tactically, you can hear the gears grinding to a halt. Arms are being cut off, ritual praise is becoming ritual humiliation, and attention is disappearing from the dim Western consciousness. The lights are going out, the propaganda has moved on, and Ukraine should be able to see its true enemy all along. America, and the whole White Empire that strung them along.

Ukraine had the best deal it could have had before 2014, when they had decent relations with their neighbor Russia. But then they were couped and corrupted by Americans, and then the war actually started (in the Donbass, etc). Ukraine had the next best deal they could have in 2022, before the warpig Boris Johnson was sent to, again, scuttle it. Russia's peace offer was not the best deal for Western warmongers, who wanted to bleed the stuck pig as long as possible. So the couped, corrupted, renazified state lumbered on, kidnapping its own people to feed into the Western war machine a little longer. As Henry Kissinger said, in a hypothetical that's now just fact, it's dangerous to be America's enemy, but fatal to be America's friend.

America does not give a fuck about Ukrainians any more than it gives a fuck about Chinese Muslims or Taiwanese or even Jews in Palestine. These are all just conscript colonies to serve the needs of capital and this—as the White Empire is dying—is the time to capitalize. We are witnessing a global fire sale of old American weapons and the perfunctory firing of American ‘allies’ out the proverbial cannon. The last of Ukraine's menfolk are just fodder for the old warhorse, like Hitler, White Empire gives a fuck about Slav on Slav violence and in fact encourages it. America couped Ukraine in 2014 in order to throw them at Russia, just as it uses Taiwan to poke China, and 'Israel' to frack the Middle East. Don't judge them by their words, which are increasingly absurd, but by their actions.

At any point America could have accepted Ukraine into NATO but they did not, they just led them on. At any point America could have put boots where their mouth was, but they did not. No, they just used Ukraine to fight to last Ukrainian and to sell old, expiring weapons at inflated prices. It was just a mafia-style bust-out, and now we're at the point where they light a match and move on. America, as the imploding capital of White Empire, also used the conflict to attack Germany and sell them American gas at inflated prices. America wasn't sticking to principles in the Ukraine War. They were just sticking Europe up.

What about Russia? What about Russia? Assemble a giant army next to any great power and see what happens. Russia is a rational actor that communicated its security concerns for decades, but America simply doesn't accept that anyone else has security interests at all. White Empire only understands one language, and that's what Russia is speaking. In fact, war had been raging in the Donbass for eight years before Russia directly got involved, and NATO was assembling the largest European army right on their doorstep, where Hitler and Napoleon had marched in before. Russia clearly communicated that this was a red line for them over and over, but the White Empire are ‘habitual line-steppers.’ Russia put them in their place and was happy to negotiate in 2022, but no, America scuttled that like they scuttled Ukraine's elections before. They installed Zelensky as dictator and pulled the ultimate dick move by bleeding Ukraine to the bone. Now the place is a ruin.

One of the striking things about the Russo-Ukrainian War is how little striking of civilians there is by the Russians, especially compared to the war on Palestine raging right now. Like they did in World War II, Russia is putting its own soldiers on the line and hitting almost exclusively military (and industrial) targets, and taking plenty hits back in return. The destruction of Ukraine has been the destruction of its fighting men and military infrastructure, it has been just war, not genocide and carpet bombing as the White Empire does unto others. For this, Russia is slandered by the Western press, but consider the source. They're the ones currently laundering the genocide of Palestine.

Western media, like so much else, does not cover what an absolute desperate ruin they have made of Ukraine. Men are press-ganged off the street and regularly beaten or tortured to death in Ukrainian captivity. They are thrown into the front with little training and even less strategy, to be eviscerated to maybe make some pointless headlines in the selfsame Western media. The whole thing is really sponsored content for the military-industrial complex; the corruption runs deep and both ways. These media stringers should be strung up as much as Julius Streicher; the whole establishment is complicit in the de-establishment of Ukraine, which has all been a vicious and cynical betrayal.

Now Europe has a lot of stabbed in the back Nazis right on their doorstep as they veer far-right themselves. It's not a good situation for anybody except America, which made its bones from a ruined world post WWII, and has made this their business model ever since. Europe doesn't get it. They think they're allies of the White Empire, but they're vassals, there to be humiliated and eviscerated and to contribute troops and land to their own occupation. But being arrogant Europeans, they can't see it, and turn their ire to immigrants, ie the slaves driven north by other imperial campaigns. As I've said, the White Empire thrives in the background, and white supremacy is the heady drug that makes it invisible to white people. The Ukrainian War was not just a sneak American attack on Ukraine, but on Europe itself, which also marched itself into ruin.

The standard policy of White Empire is divide and conquer, which is what it has done with Ukraine, and tries to do across Asia. To divide and conquer Slav vs. Slav in Ukraine, Chinese vs. Chinese in Taiwan, and Semite (whatever that means) vs. Semite in Palestine. To get people fighting each other, sell them the weapons to do it, and steal the resources from underneath. Beneath all the marketing about Democracy™ and Freedom©, that's all it is. After couping or corrupting the last few elections in Ukraine, America has simply suspended them. This is not new; America installed brutal military dictatorships in occupied Korea and all over the world and called it freedom. It's all marketing for the real business, which is arms dealing and stealing.

And so Ukraine ends up with half a country, half its menfolk gone, and half-mad as a consequence. With friends like Americans, who needs enemies? After Kissinger's warning during the Vietnam, people should have gotten the hint, but we're half-a-dozen sequels deep into the same thing. Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac, as that creep Kissinger also said, and there's no shortage of countries willing to fuck themselves. Corruption is a hell of a drug, and there's always some narrow segment willing to sell their own people and own eventual necks out for some temporary profit. That's what happened with Ukraine, and corruption goes both ways. The Western media used to report on the rampant corruption before it became their corruption, but it's the same.

So now in late-stage Ukraine, a narrow class is coked up and private jetting around while the masses are choking and unable to leave. And in late-stage Europe, an unelected caste is talking about ‘democracy’ while deindustrializing their own populations to prop up a dictator. The whole thing is a tinder-keg and America's selling matches merrily. All the talk about ‘supporting’ Ukraine and defending Europe was just flattering to deceive. The whole wretched lot has been strung out and left to bleed for the blood money. I feel bad for Ukraine, but I feel bad towards America. In the end (and this is the end), America and not Russia was Ukraine's worst enemy. As the saying sorta goes, with fiends like these, who needs enemies?

If you want to understand how horrifyingly bad things are in Ukraine, I recommend the Substack Events In Ukraine.