Iran and Israel begin a slide into war

In risking a war with Israel and its backers, the clerical regime in Tehran is at risk of causing its own demise.

- M.D. NALAPAT

Volodymyr Zelenskyy must be feeling a tad let down. He walked away from a Russian peace offer in April 2022. Had he agreed to that, Ukraine would have been a different country now from the shattered state it has become after enduring Russian assaults since then that have only further reduced the areas under Kiev's control. Russophobes such as Victoria Nuland must be as devastated as the President of Ukraine, as neither Putin nor the country he runs have been demolished. Among those policymakers in the US who remain fixated in the 1970s when the US was in an existential conflict of systems with the USSR, Nuland is among several throughout both sides of the North Atlantic whose mission in life is to ensure that the Russian Federation follows the USSR into oblivion. Zelenskyy believed her when she swore, together with then Secretary-General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg that Kiev would be given "whatever it takes" in order to recover the territories which separated themselves from Ukraine in 2014. This was after the Maidan Revolution resulted in the coming to high office in Kiev eof Russophobes who were as committed to the disintegration of Russia as the Nulands of the Atlantic Alliance.