Initially, the collective West was celebrating the Ukrainian invasion of Russia in the Kursk border region. This ill-advised action, so much so … that [they] soon realized was premature. When I use they—sarcastically, I mean Ukraine and NATO collectively, as it is clear that such an operation was planned by outsiders, as even Ukrainian soldiers themselves were in awe of the thought of participating in an attack on Russia—as even simple soldiers knew it would not end well.

It is as if various news outlets with rather bombastic story titles, such as this “How Ukraine turned the war on its head with surprise attack on southern Russia,” by such purported military geniuses as Tim Lister, Eve Brennan and Allegra Goodwin of CNN, describe this as a “war winning” move by Ukraine with such catchy paragraphs as:

“[Ukraine has] demonstrated that they can pull off such a secretive and significant operation successfully, they can penetrate Russian territory so this is no longer the red line, and they … are still very much committed to fight for their country, that there is no such thing as war fatigue, and they’re willing to take these, in a way, extreme measures for the sake of defending their country,” Natia Seskuria, an associate fellow at the UK’s Royal United Services Institute for Defense and Security Studies (RUSI), told CNN.

Even the Flagship BBC leads with over-inflated story lines “Ukraine hopes its incursion into Russia changes the outcome of war” with such clever ideas as the offensive being launched to create, of all things, a Buffer Zone to protect the city of Sumy, and:

“The main purpose of this offensive into Kursk is to divert Russia’s attention from its occupied territories in Ukraine,”

Unfortunately, they are rather let down by President Biden himself, who said:

“I’ve been talking to my staff every four to five hours for the past six to eight days, and that’s creating a real dilemma for Putin.” “We are in direct communication with Ukraine,”

While western media has been full of claims of Ukrainian “victories” in during the invasion of “Old Russia,” and boasting of Ukraine achieving its objectives, particularly the diversion of Russian troops from other areas of the front line in the South and East, and rumors circulate, including form Ukrainian POWs captured........

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