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Ukraine Update #2

Paul Craig Roberts

The function of the Western media is to turn fiction into fact and lie into truth. Once the narrative is established, it is repeated endlessly.  I worked hard yesterday to give my readers a true account of the situation.  Today I will update the military situation and point out difficulties that the Kremlin might have overlooked.

Using high precision missiles, Russia destroyed Ukraine’s military infrastructure. The strikes were limited to military airfields, air defenses, munition and fuel depots, and military communication centers.  There were and are no strikes on civilian populations.  The Kremlin’s operation contrasts starkly with Washington/NATO indiscriminate bombing of civilian populations in Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Pakistan.  Hypocritical Western “leaders” shedding crocodile tears for the few casualties in Ukraine never showed even fake concern for the tens of thousands of civilians they slaughtered in their illegal wars based on lies such as “Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction.”  Western presstitutes such as CNN have tried to create the impression that Russian forces are attacking civilian populations by showing at a distance smoke plumes rising in a city.  In reality the smoke is from precision hits on military communication or storage locations. The Russian weapons are extremely precise, so the Russians don’t need to bomb everything in sight, leveling every building in order to achieve military purpose.  Russia will get no credit for this humanitarian policy, and might be forced to abandon it, a question I will explore later in this report.

As far as I can tell, the initial Russian strikes prevented any coordinated military action by the Ukrainian armed forces which doesn’t seem to have been very determined.  Some Ukrainian soldiers laid down their weapons. Others, according to reports, are helping Russian troops guard the nuclear power plants from CIA sabotage.  Many Ukrainian border guards sought refuge in Russia.  The Russian troops are doing their best not to kill Ukrainian soldiers......read more........