It is for some time now that Western politicians have been keeping saying that Putin has lost the war in Ukraine. As proof for that they quote the numerous sanctions imposed on Russia and the fact that Sweden and Finland have joined NATO. They may also add that the whole international community has condemned Russia. Has Putin really lost this war?
① In 2014 Russia incorporated Crimea – in other words, Ukraine, the West’s darling, has lost it;
② since 2022 Russia has been occupying almost the whole territory of the four Ukrainian regions of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia; it is not Ukraine that occupies Russian territories;
③ the popularity of Vladimir Putin in Russia is at an all-time high, even the Western media admit it;
④ the Russian nation is consolidated like never before for the last few decades;
⑤ Russia and China are politically and economically closer and closer and are more and more effectively opposing the West;
⑥ Belarus, which tried to have friendly relations with all its neighbours, has been compelled to unite with Russia as much as possible;
⑦ Russian tactical nuclear weapons have been moved to Belarus, i.e. closer to the borders of NATO states;
⑧ most of the international community have not joined the West in imposing sanctions on Russia;
⑨ sanctions have backfired and inflicted damage on the Western countries;
⑩ Ukraine, the West’s dependency, has had its economy ruined while its population has been decimated due to war losses and mass emigration.
Putin has already lost this war? Really? Let us view the above from a different vantage point:
① in 2014 the West lost Crimea, a prospective area for Western military presence and the resultant control over the Black Sea;
② since 2022 Ukraine (i.e. the West) has lost control over the four Ukrainian regions of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia;
③ the international, political prestige of Western leaders due to their political ineffectiveness in Ukraine is waning;
④ the Western governments and nations are split over the issue of the war in Ukraine;
⑤ Iran and North Korea have gained powerful protectors in Russia and China, while Turkey is an unreliable ally of the West ;
⑥ Belarus has ultimately and probably irrevocably been lost for the West;
⑦ the utility of the West’s weaponry has proved not so effective in the Ukrainian battlefield as it has been thought;
⑧ the international community is backing away from the dollar and joining or wishing to join BRICS, where Russia and China call the shots;
⑨ Russian gas and oil has found recipients in no time, and these are China and India to name the two biggest customers, while Russian uranium is still being provided for American power plants, generating revenue for Moscow;
⑩ Ukraine’s political, economic and demographic future is dismal to say the least.
The West may join Austria and Switzerland to NATO to prove that Putin has lost this war, but has he? Napoleon was in Moscow and Hitler was on the Volga (take a map to see how deep inside Russia the river flows!) and in the Caucasus, and for all that they both lost to Russia. Today the West has not even made an appreciable incursion into Russian territory, and still its leaders keep saying that Putin has already lost this war. How mendacious one can be?
