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Ukraine’s Struggle For Survival: Facts And Figures

Forget Western media and endlessly misleading narratives. Let’s look at the numbers to see the real picture

Allan Milne Lees
6 min readMar 4, 2024
With leaders like these, how can Putin lose?

While most people get their “information” from babbling sensation-mongering journalists whose interest in conveying reality is at best patchy and at worst entirely absent, reality grinds on regardless of the misinformation peddled by the Western media in its perpetual scramble for monetizable clicks.

Russia benefits greatly from our media organizations. Not only do they sooth gullible ignorant Western citizens with totally misleading accounts of the was in Ukraine but they also regularly promulgate Russian misinformation that’s designed to further weaken the already feeble and ineffectual support we’ve provided to Ukraine so far.

So, in order to clear away the dross and provide a more accurate assessment of the last two years and today’s state of affairs, let’s forget media narratives and look at a few basic irrefutable facts.

Fact One: Ukraine managed to hold off the major part of the Russian invasion despite the West doing what it does so well: absolutely nothing.

Fact Two: After it became apparent that Putin’s attempt to execute regime change via seizure of Kyiv had failed, the…

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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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