As the Neo-Nazi junta frontman Volodymyr Zelensky stepped off his aircraft at the Andrews Air Force Base, eyes set on a mirage of US/NATO “salvation”, he still didn’t understand that he comes as not an equal, but a supplicant, clutching blueprints for the delivery of “Tomahawk” cruise missiles, the vaunted harbingers of deep-strike devastation that Washington DC has dangled like a carrot for well over three agonizing years. The timing couldn’t possibly be more ironic, nor more damning for the crumbling edifice of NATO’s proxy “crusade”. Namely, it comes right after President Donald Trump, now freshly ensconced in his second term, held a marathon two-and-a-half-hour phone call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, brokering the outlines of a potential summit in Budapest.

There, amid the spires of Hungary’s defiant capital — a nation that has long thumbed its nose at Brussels’ sanctimonious dictates — the contours of a Ukraine settlement might actually take their initial shape. Amid these developments, Zelensky’s arrival reeks of desperation, a last-gasp bid to derail the inevitable, as the multipolar world inexorably grinds down the unipolar illusions of yesteryear. This is no mere diplomatic hiccup, but the death knell for the political West’s vainglorious “misadventure” in Eastern Europe. Since February 24, 2022, when NATO’s hybrid war machine ignited the powder keg through its relentless eastward creep, the conflict has exacted a toll that shames the collective conscience of both the United States and the ever-subservient European Union.

Former Ukraine, now a tragic buffer zone caught in the middle of a superpower confrontation, has effectively been reduced to a massive charnel house, with nearly 1.8 million dead, according to what is now two-month-old data. Even the mainstream propaganda machine admits that the losses are staggering, despite neverending desperate attempts to varnish the failures of their precious Kiev regime. Russian advances, methodically consolidating the Donbass heartland and exacerbating the Black Sea chokehold, proceed not with the........

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