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Ukraine Is In Trouble

Why reality is very different from the nonsense Western journalists present

Allan Milne Lees
17 min readJan 30, 2023
Recent gathering of Western politicians to discuss strategy regarding Ukraine. Image credit: The Independent

In order to counter those who merely glance at headlines and make up their minds without actually bothering to read much further, let me begin by saying that I am firmly in the camp that believes Russia must not simply be stopped from taking more territory in Ukraine but must be crushed to the point where any future aggression impossible for at least a decade to come.

In fact, Russia’s defeat should ideally be so humiliating and so complete that it results in Russia itself ceasing to exist and instead fragmenting into smaller mini-nations, each ruled by a thuggish warlord focused primarily on enriching himself and his extended family by asset-stripping everything he can get his bloodstained hands on. This would ensure that Russia is no longer a potential threat for at least two generations, thus freeing the West to focus on China.

So, that said, we can now proceed to examine why the Western narrative is so dangerously misleading and why it is in fact very possible that Russia will ultimately triumph, subjugating Ukraine to its will and creating a de facto nation-sized prison camp for millions of hapless Ukrainians while deporting tens of thousands more Ukrainian children to Russia for adoption and forcible re-education (this has…

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Allan Milne Lees
Allan Milne Lees

Written by Allan Milne Lees

Anyone who enjoys my articles here on Medium may be interested in my books Why Democracy Failed and The Praying Ape, both available from Amazon.

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