Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Hindustan Times"
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@blantyre60 They're definitely biased. So is everybody else. You have to read between the lines for the full story.
To my eye, the Ukrainians are seeking territory by any means necessary. They're not trying to prove they're winning. Just create the appearance of gains so it's politically popular for Western leaders to escalate, which they REALLY want to do, but are finding public support evaporating, in spite of all their minion media outlets speaking with one pro-war voice. The problem is that corporate news is just not listened to or respected by a growing majority of the American people.
But to some extent, it doesn't matter what the people think, if the media and the government are in agreement, they can give enough of an impression there's broad support to do whatever they please. It lends them an apparent level of credibility that they don't actually have.
What HT is leaving out is reports from opposite-bias media of tank losses on the Russian side. Hard to say which side is exaggerating more.
But to my uneducated eye, I see Ukrainians advancing rapidly through unfortified areas, driving Russian forces before them, but paying a heavy price in men and material to do so. Something else I see are minor skirmishes being reported globally as monumental events. But in the main, I see Russians using overwhelming firepower to take and hold strategic points, while utilizing "fighting retreats" everywhere else. They just try to slow down the Ukrainian probes long enough to call in the artillery. Ukrainians appear to be suffering between 3-to-1 and 7-to-1 losses to the Russians.
As an American, I see Ukraine as yet ANOTHER undeclared war being prosecuted without the permission or support of the American people. We haven't declared war since WW II, but the killing never stopped, and we Americans are sick of it. We don't NEED to behave like this, and our Constitution specifically FORBIDS it. But our government doesn't let minor things like laws get in its way.
USA has plenty of resources and plenty of good people. We don't need to TAKE anything from ANYone, nor should we bully the rest of the planet on behalf of other nations. If they want to join the USA, then we'll defend them like our own. But the way our government acts, why would a sovereign nation want to join our union?
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Let's forget about annexation of Tibet, because you have to if you're going to hold up China as a paragon of virtue, which it is not.
But that's a poor defense of the USA, whose intelligence and security institutions have committed many nefarious crimes for short-term advantage. The nefariousness always catches up to you.
USA should have engaged with Mao rather than scorning him. There's a middle path that our leaders, apparently drunk with power since 1945, are unable to negotiate. They oscillate between saber-rattling and handing out the keys to the safe to Mandarins. Guard our intellectual properties and our institutions. Incentivize the respect of Natural Rights and de-incentivize authoritarianism and exploitation.
"Constructive engagement," prudently executed, would give China the respect it was denied since Mao took over, without enabling totalitarian evil.
All of this is moot, as America takes on a surreal, Maoist aspect in its domestic governance.
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