{UAH} PUTIN HAS WON!

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While discussing how the western media was covering the war in Ukraine, a British Journalist called John Simpson working for the BBC, hesitantly wondered if the western media wasn't reporting what they themselves wanted to hear about the progress of the war, as opposed to what was actually happening.

The mere fact that a western journalist is questioning his own group's narrative means he has seen or felt something terribly wrong with their story.

Maybe it is that just two days before the war started, when the Kremlin was still gathering the necessary troops at the Ukrainian border for the "Special Military Operation", the world saw President Vladimir Putin blasting his Defense Minister live on television as the Russian leader asked each cabinet member to vote whether they were for or against recognizing the newly independent regions in eastern Ukraine.

In his panic, the Defense Minister mistakenly voted for the "Annexation" of these regions instead of the "recognition" of their independence. Putin quickly corrected him on what the cabinet vote was actually about before angrily telling him to sit down.

The bemused western media and western intelligence services should have taken this tiny erroneous utterance by the Defense Minister more seriously than they did. Because the Defense Minister had essentially just revealed Vladimir Putin's entire plan by mistake, live on television, to the whole world, even before the famous "Special Military Operation" had begun, and that plan was annexation.

Or maybe the British journalist had remembered that while arguing at the United Nations a couple of months later that weapons sent to help Kiev would prolong the war, another Russian official, this time the Foreign Minister, gave even more free insight into both Russia's military strategy and operational goal when he talked about a military buffer deep inside Ukraine so as to better protect the eastern separatist region that was by then under Russian control.

This revelation should have told the allies what Russia's end game was. However, nobody prioritized any action against Putin's blatantly revealed plan.

In an analysis of another compelling event, nobody, not even the CIA, has been able to explain how Russia had a 60km long military convoy of troops, weaponry, missiles, tanks, drones and artillery parked right outside the capital Kiev from day one, staying there for over two months doing nothing, then withdrawing by themselves to the east, yet for example they could have just rolled into the capital and taken the presidential palace and parliament in minutes from the very beginning but didn't, even after it was obvious to the world that the Ukrainian army was in total disarray. Clearly nobody wanted to take the capital or the country, and that had been made clear in Putin's initial speech on the first day of the war.

The British journalist might have realized this, and deduced that western intelligence had therefore completely misdiagnosed Putin's real objective by claiming a plethora of other non-existent Putin goals from their own imagination, including the claim that the Russian leader wanted to take over Ukraine and then the whole of Europe, a situation that has instead consistently prevented the allies from "locking-in" on annexation as the Putin goal that they should prevent from happening.

To me the western intelligence bosses deserve to be fired or at least reprimanded for their huge erroneous analysis of where the war was actually heading.

It also turns out that 90% of areas that the Ukrainians say they liberated, were actually withdrawn from by the Russian military under no combat or any form of Ukrainian resistance pressure whatsoever.
The Russians had simply left to pursue their special operations second phase and true goal in the east. However Ukraine started claiming that their bravery had "liberated these area's".

Even the broader dynamics of the war suddenly changed by Russia's decision, from being on the attack across Ukraine, to Russia bringing in reservists to now simply guard the newly annexed territories.

Here as well the western media is claiming that they are being sent to the war when actually in Putin's view. the war is likely to wind down having achieved its goal.

Ukrainian President Zelensky has himself finally understood Russia's goal and moved away from all his earlier claims about Russia's intentions. After the referendums were announced, he formally announced in his nightly social media address that he was now "focusing Ukrainian forces in the east because the east was Putin's mission."

Meanwhile, let us remind ourselves of the true genesis of this conflict. For the last two decades, nobody in any western capital, not even in the United Nations, responded to the cries from persecution of the people in Eastern Ukraine. Even today the world is acting as if the war in Ukraine is not about these people at all.

In reality it is what this war is all about: The plight of the Russian speaking population in eastern Ukraine.  Anyone in Putin's position would sooner or later tire of the global inaction and double standards of the international community, and decide to do something for a people that Russia considers ethnically its own.

The Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties, a human rights organization that has been awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace prize, is one of the few organizations that has best documented all the heinous abuses, cruel atrocities and untold human tragedy faced by the people of eastern Ukraine over the years without any international assistance or outcry whatsoever.

The US congress itself has records of the neo-nazi activities and their human rights abuses against the people of eastern Ukraine, plus how the Ukrainian government was happy to nudge them on in their cruelty against their own fellow citizens.

All these independent findings are today being brushed under the rag by Russophobes in the western media and allied leadership, a form of systemic censorship in the information war being waged around the conflict in Ukraine. And now the victims are being made to look like mere puppets of Russia, yet for years they have been calling for help in vain and have thus been forced to fight to save their own lives from brutal Ukrainian repression that nobody wants to discuss today.

The hidden records would have told the world that Russia's actions did not come from nowhere. Not even from NATO provocation. They are the result of deep grievances that were simply never attended to, not even by the international community, and the few western journalists who actually covered what was happening in eastern Ukraine, actually embedded themselves with the oppressor.

Now let's take a look at who is actually de-escalating or not the war in Ukraine.

- The world can remember breathing a sigh of relief when Russia declared it was ending its bombardments in the whole country and withdrawing from Kiev to focus on the east. That is de-escalation.
- The world can also remember the unblocking of Ukrainian ports to allow the export of Ukrainian grain and fertilizer to the world and enable Ukraine\s economy restart. That is de-escalation.
- The world can remember Russia handing back the neo-Nazi's captured Mariupol. That is de-escalation.
- The world can remember Russia handing back the famous snake island "in good faith"  to not hinder Ukrainian maritime transport from the ports in Southern Ukraine. That is also de-escalation.

In stark contrast, not a single gesture of de-escalation has been taken by the allies in response to major acts of de-escalation from the Russians. Not even a single sanction has been removed to encourage de-escalating the conflict.

What  this shows is sinister intent. The allies are clearly not leveraging their sanctions to get de-escalation rolling from the two sides of the conflict. It is as if their sanctions  are intended to be perpetual, regardless of what happens in the war.

Yet peace is what they could be used to create. Peace for the Ukrainian people, but also for the innocent population of Russia who are being impacted the most from these sanctions, let alone the billion people around the world currently affected in one way or another by the conflict and/or the subsequent sanctions. Something isn't right in western intentions.

Now that Putin has achieved his objective, this means that Russia's initial military offensives followed by withdrawal to the east, then the referendums, were all meticulously planned beforehand.

So ladies and gentlemen, despite my heartfelt sympathy for the people of Ukraine and all the death, destruction and human suffering they have painfully endured at the hands of a brutal and crushing Russian hammer and sickle, the reality is that pursuant to an extremely odd and unusual military strategy that confused everyone including the people of Russia themselves, a strategy that left the world wildly misjudging what Putin's intentions were even after the Defense Minister fumblingly revealed it to the planet, the annexation of eastern Ukraine being the ultimate goal of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin has won!

Lumumba Amin
Kampala, Uganda

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