pcr speaks about the ukie war;

The Ever-Widening War

Paul Craig Roberts

As we enter 2026, the ever-widening war is further widening. Russian foreign minister Lavrov accuses the European Union of escalating the conflict and preparing for war with Russia. As a fifth year of conflict begins, Russian president Putin’s limited military operation is expanding into a general conflict between Europe and Russia. The EU has raised apparently from loans from banks approximately $100 billion to enable Ukraine to continue the conflict while Europe builds up it’s military capability to directly enter the war with Russia. This statement is not merely my opinion. It is the stated policy of the German chancellor, the British prime minister, and the French president.

From the beginning of Putin’s limited military operation in Donbas, I have described it as folly that would prolong the conflict until it ever-widened into a general war. It seems that now Russia’s foreign minister has come to agree with me.

The conflict should have been a very quickly settled affair. Russia should have cut all rail and sea routes into Ukraine, thus preventing the transfer of Western weapons. The government in Kyiv should have been attacked, and the entire electric supply in Ukraine shut down. With Ukrainian government disrupted and the inability of Ukraine to move troops and weapons, the conflict would have quickly been over............more.........