Is it possible Putin master-minded the Israel-Hamas war as a diversion to take Ukraine? Putin has always been in thick with Iran, Syria and the Palestinian fighters.
Certainly, the gaze of world media swung like a gun turret the day Hamas stormed Israel, and when the gaze went to Gaza, Ukraine disappeared from the news cycle.
Yet the poor Ukrainians are still fighting the West’s proxy war against Russia. There is no way Ukraine can ever defeat Russia without a hideously expensive stream of weapons flowing from the West.
But we are all so distracted by the scale and horror of Israel’s iron fist smashing Gaza to pulp, that attention and funding will turn to the East – and in the depths of a bitter cold winter, Russia will defeat Ukraine.
Just as Palestinians became angry and vengeful when their nation was taken from them and occupied by Israelis, defeated Ukrainians will be just as angry and vengeful when Russians steal and occupy their land. As in Palestine, the only way hard-liners can control the angry and dispossessed is with an iron fist. So Ukraine will become another Palestine.
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