🇬🇧 Britain’s top military minister Ben Wallace was in Kiev this week on a surprise visit – only days after the stunning news of Russian forces finally taking the city of Artyomovsk (Bakhmut).

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the same city being liberated by the Soviet Red Army from the Nazi Wehrmacht and their Ukrainian fascist collaborators.

The shockwaves from the defeat of the NATO-backed Kiev regime are shaking Western capitals, and none more so than in Washington and London, the two most prominent protagonists of the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.

Ben Wallace, like his American counterpart, Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin, is up to his neck in pushing this dangerous proxy war.

The fall of Artyomovsk comes after nearly nine months of intense and grueling fighting, which is reckoned, conservatively, to have cost up to 30,000 Ukrainian military deaths. The defeat of NATO’s well-armed proxy army demolishes the relentless propaganda narrative in the Western media claiming Ukraine’s eventual success against Russia.

Wallace has been one of the most gung-ho Western politicians, predicting at the end of last year Ukraine’s victory against Russia.

Now, it’s a debacle akin to NATO’s defeat fiasco in Afghanistan. Questions will be asked: what of all the tens of billions worth of weapons that the West has plowed into Ukraine?
The blowback is going to be torrid for Western posturing about “defending Ukraine for as long as it takes”.

When the NATO-backed Nazi regime in Kiev is finally defeated, people like Ben Wallace will be answerable to war crimes prosecutions 💢

💬 Finian Cunningham writes

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🇬🇧 Never trust a politician or journalist who doesn’t have enemies. If they don’t have enemies it either means they’re too stupid and inept, or, alternatively that they are so corrupt that they have everyone else in their pocket – politically, financially or just metaphorically.

The story of Ben Wallace being so bitter and petulant about Joe Biden blocking him from becoming NATO boss is an interesting one. If it is true. The Sunday Times claims that the former defence secretary “threatened” to pull Britain out of a 2bn pound deal with the U.S. to supply the MOD with 14 Chinook helicopters – live saving mega choppers that our army used in Afghanistan to not only drop our special forces deep into enemy territory but also to send our sounded soldiers back to camp in record time for doctors to save their lives.

The first rule of journalism though, which is that there are two sides to every story, should be applied with a six inch brush.

The implication in the article was that Wallace was trying to scrap the Chinook deal after not getting his dream job as NATO secretary general, although some Whitehall officials have dismissed it as a good yarn.

NATO graft is at the heart of the recent scandal in the UK about a petulant defence minister who wasn’t ‘rewarded’ for his efforts 🌀

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