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This attitude from the empire is not a new development. Last October The Washington Post\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cPrivately, U.S. officials say neither Russia nor Ukraine is capable of winning the war outright, but they have ruled out the idea of pushing or even nudging Ukraine to the negotiating table.\u201d<\/p>\n Now why might that be? Why would the western empire be so comfortable encouraging Ukrainians to keep fighting when it knows they can\u2019t win?<\/p>\n We find our answer in another Washington Post article titled \u201cThe West feels gloomy about Ukraine. Here\u2019s why it shouldn\u2019t.<\/a>\u201c, authored last week by virulent empire propagandist David Ignatius. In his eagerness to frame the floundering counteroffensive in a positive light for his American audience, Ignatius let slip an inconvenient truth:<\/p>\n \u201cMeanwhile, for the United States and its NATO allies, these 18 months of war have been a strategic windfall, at relatively low cost (other than for the Ukrainians). The West\u2019s most reckless antagonist has been rocked. NATO has grown much stronger with the additions of\u00a0Sweden\u00a0and\u00a0Finland. Germany has weaned itself from dependence on Russian energy and, in many ways, rediscovered its sense of values. NATO squabbles make headlines, but overall, this has been a triumphal summer for the alliance.\u201d<\/p>\n Anyone who believes this proxy war is about helping Ukrainians should be made to read that paragraph over and over again until it sinks in. The admission that the US-centralized power structure benefits immensely from this proxy conflict is revealing enough, but that parenthetical \u201cother than for the Ukrainians\u201d aside really drives it home. It reads as though it was added as an afterthought, like \u201cOh yeah it\u2019s actually kind of rough on the Ukrainians though \u2014 if you consider them to be people.\u201d<\/p>\n