May 9, 1945 – May 9, 2026: Russia is Standing Tall Again.Part 1: the failure of the American containment policy |
May 9, 1945 – May 9, 2026: Russia is Standing Tall Again.Part 1: the failure of the American containment policy
Eighty-one years after the victory over Nazism, the West is playing the same game again. And losing, with Washington becoming entangled in the Iran-Iraq War.
Eighty-one years ago, the Soviet Union put an end to Nazi barbarity. Twenty-seven million dead. Cities were razed. Generations were swallowed up in the fire and mud of Stalingrad, Leningrad, and Kursk. The Red Army didn’t win because it had better weapons. It won because it fought for something the American general staff never understood: its very existence. You don’t negotiate your existence. You defend it to the last man. Hence the term “Great Patriotic War.”
The West preferred to forget this lesson. It reconstructed its narrative: it was the West that defeated Nazism, that liberated Europe, that upholds universal values. The Normandy landings, which took place in June 1944 when the Wehrmacht was already on its knees under Soviet onslaught, became the defining moment of victory. The USSR – which had absorbed more than 80% of Germany’s fighting power for three years – was relegated to the role of a minor player. “Russia helped us win World War II,” Trump claims. This historical falsehood is not a mistake. It is policy.
A policy that allowed the West, particularly the United States, to conserve its troops and spend its dollars. It let the Soviets die and then claimed victory. In 2022, and again since 2024, it’s doing it all over again – with Ukrainian soldiers. The memory of American hypocrisy is still so fresh.
Ukraine: The most cynical war in recent history
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