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When Putin ordered the Russian army to invade Ukraine on 24 February last year, he committed one of the greatest blunders in European history
He announced in his state of the nation address this week that “Russia suspends its participation in the New Start treaty,” the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between Russia and America. After threatening to resume nuclear testing, he said that the local war in Ukraine was now a global confrontation between Russia and the West. “The Western elites do not conceal their goals to bring Russia a strategic defeat. What does it mean? It means to end us, once and for all.
Ukraine also hopes to break the stalemate by deploying new weapons, such as several hundred Leopard 2, M1-Abrams and Challenger 2 heavy tanks. But these reinforcements may well be swallowed up in the vastness of the Ukrainian battlefields. Super weapons, such as the British tank in 1917 or the German V-1 and V-2 missiles have usually had less of an impact than hoped, once the initial shock of their use dissipates and the other side undertakes counter-measures.
An ominous aspect of the Nord Stream pipeline bombing has been the reluctance of the mainstream Western media to report the issue before or after the Hersh article. This is a worrying indication that news reporting of the Ukraine crisis has regressed into war propaganda, the essence of which is not so much lying about what is happening, but a selective approach to the news whereby anything beneficial to our side is reported and anything harmful is marginalised or ignored.
Critics of his Nord Stream story also say that, whatever his scoops during the Vietnam and Iraq wars, his more recent claims about the killing of Osama Bin Laden have been insufficiently supported by named sources, which would enable the allegations to be tested by other journalists. His latest report has attracted their scrutiny for similar reasons.
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