You shouldn’t be surprised by now to hear that the Western media is lying to you again. Right now, they’re engaged in a desperate, full-volume distraction campaign to stop people from noticing two very awkward truths:

1. Project Ukraine is collapsing, and there’s nothing NATO or the EU can do about it.
2. Donald Trump is exposing the reality of American empire—not a force for democracy, but a global protection racket where European leaders play the role of submissive underlings.

The result? A blizzard of absurd headlines, each more ridiculous than the last. Keir Starmer’s ‘comfort force’—a non-combat, vaguely military, feel-good initiative—vanished before anyone could figure out what it was. His ‘four-point peace plan’ was just another delusional attempt to pretend Ukraine could negotiate a ceasefire without involving Russia. The ‘coalition of the willing’ was another farcical PR stunt—an alliance of European states willing to do absolutely nothing except pose for photographs before quietly backing out. Meanwhile, every 48 hours, we get another ‘defence summit’ where European leaders promise to ‘re-arm’ with theoretical billions. The latest joke figure is €800bn, a number large enough to generate headlines but meaningless in practice—there’s no plan, no budget, no deadlines. Even The Guardian, while dressing it up as a ‘watershed moment,’ admitted that the entire proposal depends on decisions by individual states, meaning it is purely imaginary.

And then there’s Macron, reduced to ‘calling for’ an ‘air truce’—which amounts to begging Russia to stop winning. Nobody was ‘calling for’ a truce when Ukraine was lobbing Western missiles into Russian cities, but now that the tables have turned, suddenly it’s time to appeal to fairness. Zelensky himself, standing amid the rubble, has now joined the chorus: “We need Russia to stop attacks.” A stunning insight into how war works—asking the enemy to stop fighting.

Strip away the noise, and this is what’s actually happening: The war is over, and Ukraine is being carved up. Trump doesn’t care about Ukraine any more than Biden did—he just wants a PR win and a slice of the mineral deals. The EU is trying to muscle in on those deals, but they won’t get one. And Europe’s leaders, hopelessly dependent on Washington, are about to be shaken down for protection money. They will pay, because they have no other choice.

Meanwhile, as Ukraine collapses, the Western media will work overtime to frame its humiliation as some kind of ‘honourable settlement.’ A puppet president will be installed, peace talks will be arranged, and Russia will dictate terms while the new Ukrainian leadership nods along. The war will end with a surrender, dressed up as a ‘negotiated peace.’ And Starmer? He’ll put on his serious face, deliver a speech about his ‘vital role’ in securing this ‘historic moment,’ and hope nobody notices how irrelevant he actually is.

And what is left of Ukraine? Nothing. It has been burned to the ground, its people scattered, its industry gone, its future mortgaged for generations. The Western media once called it ‘NATO’s shield’—in truth, it was NATO’s fighting cock. It fought, it bled, it lost, and now it is being abandoned.

If Ukrainians had studied history, they might have seen this coming. Great powers always do this—stirring up wars, plundering resources, leaving destruction in its wake. The strong take what they will: the weak suffer what they must.

And if you’re looking for someone to blame for the mountains of dead Ukrainian teenagers left to rot in the trenches, start with Boris Johnson. Back in 2022, Ukraine could have negotiated peace. The war could have ended before the worst of the destruction. But Boris flew into Kyiv and told Zelensky to keep fighting. Peace wasn’t allowed—America and Britain needed the war to go on. Well, now it’s over, but not before thousands more lives were wasted for nothing. And where’s Boris now? Cashing in on speaking gigs, playing Churchill to an audience that has already forgotten why this war even started.

And still, the headlines roll on, ever more hysterical, ever more detached from reality. Because the more obvious it becomes that Ukraine has lost, the louder they have to shout to convince you otherwise.