Get ready for an imperialist narrative pivot from “stand with Ukraine!” to “destroy BRICS!”
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Last month, the commentator Pepe Escobar speculated that the Ukrainian side’s full military humiliation may come by the middle of this summer. He didn’t feel this was guaranteed to be the moment when this happened; only that given how’s Ukraine victory was mathematically impossible from the start, its defeat in Bakhmut and its futile attempt at a counteroffensive could soon render the “Ukraine will prevail in time” narrative untenable. Now that we’ve gotten into mid-summer, the events Escobar was expecting have indeed come to be; what territorial gains Kiev has gotten have failed to take away Russia’s strategic advantages. What Escobar couldn’t anticipate was the wild twist which has since been added to this story; that being a revolt by a Russian private military company leader which ended up making the failure of Biden’s Ukraine proxy war even more assured.
Get ready for an imperialist narrative pivot from “stand with Ukraine!” to “destroy BRICS!”
Get ready for an imperialist narrative pivot…
Get ready for an imperialist narrative pivot from “stand with Ukraine!” to “destroy BRICS!”
Last month, the commentator Pepe Escobar speculated that the Ukrainian side’s full military humiliation may come by the middle of this summer. He didn’t feel this was guaranteed to be the moment when this happened; only that given how’s Ukraine victory was mathematically impossible from the start, its defeat in Bakhmut and its futile attempt at a counteroffensive could soon render the “Ukraine will prevail in time” narrative untenable. Now that we’ve gotten into mid-summer, the events Escobar was expecting have indeed come to be; what territorial gains Kiev has gotten have failed to take away Russia’s strategic advantages. What Escobar couldn’t anticipate was the wild twist which has since been added to this story; that being a revolt by a Russian private military company leader which ended up making the failure of Biden’s Ukraine proxy war even more assured.