Remember how Putin saying that Russia was fighting the USA and not Ukraine was supposed to be an example of either him going insane or puffing up the conflict for his domestic audience? Well, for whatever reason now the western media are allowed to tell the truth. Now, why would that be - that's still a mystery.
It's no mystery. The US regime changed to one sympathetic to Russia (at the very least), so the ever-supplicating political establishment has started realigning. Remember this is the same paper that helped drum up support for the Iraq War. Even "leftist" corpo media is still just blue-flavored state media.
As far as the truth, the problem is the lack of two functioning political parties. Two parties representing different approaches to the US's interests would have meant that the opposition poking holes in the official narratives would point to a competing US-benefiting alternative. Imagine instead of this feckless trickle of weapons effectively keeping the Ukrainians on a leash, the US could have taken the lesson from the Moskva and let Ukraine run with it. That is the debate we should have had.
Run with it and do what? Defeat a nation with five times the population? And remember, far from everyone in Ukraine is eager to serve the new masters. The men from the "occupied" territories? They are on the front lines fighting, and not on the US side. American media have started to cover "busification". They may be able to talk about this angle soon.
Let's say you are much smarter than me. If you managed my finances you'd probably get much better ROI. Should I voluntarily hand everything over? Notice that I am not equating you with me: I acknowledge that you are smarter. Still, my survival requires that I fight you with all I've got if you decide to take my stuff away from me.
That's what this "subjugation" business is at the end of the day: a satellite country trading one master for another. And before you start with national pride: superpowers absolutely see their satellites as currency.
And it sucks that your family had to flee adversity. At the same time, my grandfathers entire family was killed by soldiers from a country we now consider a paragon of democracy. So spare me.
