The US has won the Ukraine war, assuring a nuclear exchange with Russia

Putin's antiquated military can't win, so the Russian public is being prepared for nuclear war

As US and NATO propagandists celebrate Ukraine’s long awaited June “counter offensive” against Russia in the eastern provinces around Bakhmut and Zaporizhzhia, retired US Brigadier General Kevin Ryan now sees the likelihood of the war going nuclear as nearly irreversible.

Compliant regime media as cheerleaders for war.

Ryan is a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He served as U.S. defense attaché to Moscow and deputy director for strategy, plans and policy on the Army Staff. He believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine is now a near certainty, and that jejune assurances by US officials to the contrary are delusional.

US-led Western powers have given Ukraine weapons and matériel worth twice the annual Russian military budget in just over one year. The West has already “won.” Russia’s antiquated military has been reduced to “B” movie status. Their depleted forces are now using WW2 vintage tanks to fight Ukraine’s shiny hi-tech Western-led “counter offensive.” Ukraine, on the other hand, is bristling with the most advanced weapons on the planet. Experts are calling Ukraine’s military the most “hi-tech the world has ever seen” and a “field day” for US military contractors.

Russia cannot compete in a traditional war. It will soon have no other options besides nuclear weapons. Putin is not bluffing. He has seen the necessity of going nuclear almost from the beginning.

In a lengthy, meticulously argued and heavily documented May 17, 2023, article for the Belfer Center, Ryan says that Putin has been preparing the Russian people psychologically for the certainty of nuclear war for many months. Lengthy, but highly relevant excerpts from Ryan’s analysis follow.