I don't know if the West ever thought they could beat Russia in Ukraine, perhaps they did but clearly that's not the case now. Today the aim seems to be to kill as many Russians, and Ukrainians, as possible. Hang on, they want to kill Ukrainians? Well clearly if you think the Russians are going to win and that Ukraine will be absorbed into the Federation, then the more damage you can inflict both economically and demographically to the future Greater Russia the better.
As a last throw of the dice the extreme warmongers want any nuclear incident at the Energodar reactor to be treated as an Article 5 attack on Europe, necessitating direct Nato involvement in the war. Clearly this is an invitation to the Kiev regime to carry out such an attack knowing that the mainstream media will rush to blame Moscow. Today's announcement of an evacuation of Nikopol is extremely worrying in this regard.
Meanwhile Wales carries on blissfully unaware that there's a good chance that we are living in the last days of humanity. The actions of the laughable Welsh government make even fervent supporters of devolution regret ever voting for the Assembly. Steadfastly ignoring the real problems facing Wales the Drakeford clique and their Plaid allies seek to solve non-issues by imposing busy-body controls on an apathetic population. The controls rather than the solutions being the whole point of the exercise.