Three news articles caught my eye. First from CNN, “Russia is entering its third year of war in Ukraine with an unprecedented amount of cash in government coffers, bolstered by a record $37 billion of crude oil sales to India last year, according to new analysis, which concludes that some of the crude was refined by India and then exported to the United States as oil products worth more than $1 billion. This flow of payments, ultimately to Moscow’s benefit, comes from India increasing its purchases of Russian crude by over 13 times its pre-war amounts, according to the analysis by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), exclusively shared with CNN. It amounts to US strategic partner New Delhi stepping in to replace crude purchases by Western buyers, reduced by sanctions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the analysis said.” Sanctions never work. Just ask Iran.
Second from NBC News, “After months of requests from Ukrainian officials, the Biden administration is working toward providing Ukraine with powerful new long-range ballistic missiles, according to two U.S. officials. Late last year, the U.S. began to supply Ukraine with Army Tactical Missile Systems, known as ATACMS, but so far it has provided only the older medium-range ATACMS. Now, the U.S. is leaning toward sending the longer-range version of the missile, the officials said, which would allow Ukraine to strike farther inside the Russian-held Crimean Peninsula.” Too little, too late, as always.
Last from The Guardian, “Russia has said it has taken full control of the eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka, its biggest gain since capturing Bakhmut last May, after a retreat by Ukrainian troops. Russian troops launched multiple attacks further west from Avdiivka in a bid for further battlefield gains, a Ukrainian army spokesperson said on Sunday. … The US president, Joe Biden, had warned that the city might fall to Russia due to weapons shortages exacerbated by months of Republican congressional opposition to a new US funding package for the Ukrainian military.” Biden et al.’s naivety about the RepubliKKKlan Party’s resistance led to this.
All of these point to the same conclusion I predicted starting two years ago: The Fall of Ukraine and then Back to the Fall of Ukraine, as a couple of example posts. Let me first reiterate that I am a staunch Ukraine supporter and fervently — and wickedly so — anti-Russian. Save the handful of Russian protestors in that country, I’m perfectly fine with nuking the rest of the population. Nonetheless, I predicted at the start of the Ukraine-Russia war the fall of Ukraine because I knew — I just f***ing knew — that the West would eventually fail Ukraine. Despite pledges from NATO and EU states of unlimited support and whatnot, it’s all been a drip, drip, drip process whereby Zelenskyy has to spend more time traveling to beg countries for help, including the U.S. and Biden. And Biden has failed on this point in a couple of ways. Despite his marshaling NATO cooperation, it has always been a day late and a dollar short. From the very start of the war, Zelenskyy said he needed everything now, yet Biden et al. resisted. They resisted providing jets. They resisted tanks. They resisted short-range missiles. They resisted long-range missiles. You know, everything Ukraine needed to actually win the war. Yet, Biden and the rest of the West opposed providing Ukraine with what they required at the time quickly enough; and where the West relented (e.g., tanks and jets), it has been too little and too late. They’ve promised jets, yet they still have not arrived on the battlefield. More waiting and more delaying. More broken promises.
And now Biden is “considering” long-range missiles. Christ-on-the-f***ing-Cross. After two years, they are only now “considering” doing so when, technically, there is no funding in the U.S. budget for Ukraine. And after two years, the West still hasn’t put its economies on a war footing. War production in the West is non-existent to meet the moment when it should have been cranked up years ago. Whatever! No one cares. The West, after all this time — since 2014 — still has not taken Putin’s aggression seriously, save Poland and the Baltic states, which appear to have a bit more urgency. But I can see how other Western nations are a bit more blasé about the threat of Putin invading more countries since he’ll have to get through Poland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania first before knocking on the doorsteps of Germany and other countries. Has Europe learned nothing since World War II? (Um, the answer is no.)
And if I have to hear one more dumbass Democrat, including Biden, proclaim they are going to pass a Ukraine funding bill, then I’m going to blow my f***ing brains out. Once again, and as usual, dumbass Democrats are utterly oblivious to the resistance of the RepubliKKKlan Party and MAGA morons led by traitor trump. F***tard Democrats and dotard Biden still fail to apprehend that the RepubliKKKlan Party is nothing more than a wing of the American Putin Party and traitor trump is mini-me Putin. Once this sh*t-for-brains country decided to give RepubliKKKlans control of the House, they should have known future Ukraine funding was never going to happen. I knew that, but dumbass Democrats haven’t grasped it yet — and probably never will. I mean, Biden is still trying to shame the opposition party into acting as if that will work. And don’t get me started on this discharge petition B.S. as a workaround. The MSM, idiot political pundits, and even other moronic Democrats keep touting the discharge petition as a backup plan. Yet, none of these idiots seem to understand that this legislative instrument takes months to succeed! I’m not sure Ukraine has months left. Democrats should have started a discharge petition last year, but no! They were still under the misguided and delusional notion that RepubliKKKlans actually wanted to help fund Ukraine. This whole border demand, coupled with Ukraine (and other) funding, was all a rouse and a delay tactic. And dumbass Democrats fell for it hook, line, and sinker. Christ! Kill me now with this sh*t. I can’t! I just f***ing can’t deal with idiot Democrats anymore! No one seems to get it. Their hope-y, change-y, and other wish-casting is going to blindly lead us into another traitor trump presidency as dumbass Democrats quixotically believe America is “better than this” in all matters. (News flash: We’re not!) Welcome to stupid America! No one cares, and Democrats are stuck in “everything is fine” mode. Nothing to see here. Move along, please. Move along.