Fri Mar 3, 2023 – 1:48 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — The battle for Bakhmut in the Donbass is almost over, with the Russians slowly bringing their encirclement of the town to completion.
Since the Russians began their assault on Bakhmut last August, the media has insisted it is of no strategic importance. There are two reasons why Bakhmut matters.
The media campaign is the one the West has been winning since 2014, when the war in Donbass began. According to the media, the war in Ukraine is only one year old. It is being fought for democracy, despite the fact that Ukraine is not a democracy. It is about freedom, despite the fact the Ukrainian regime has banned independent media, closed down churches and prohibited freedom of expression.
The war is not about Ukraine, which is simply the site of the neoconservative goal of destroying Russia. The plan, which has been laid out in many forms including this RAND Corporation document, is to:
destroy the Russian army in the field isolate and destabilize Russia with sanctions promote regime change in Russia install a client regime such as was done with Ukraine in 2014
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