Meanwhile the ruble is the best performing currency in the world — and Zelensky admits that 1/5 of Ukraine is in Russian hands — including the industrial centers and ports.

But in the USofA the arrogance still blusters. The world's largest empire — with military bases in 150 countries around the — is trying to use this proxy war and Ukrainians' blood as a weapon to expand itself. The USofA corporate owned media— and tool of the military-indistrial complex — is daily trying to figure out how to rewrite the propaganda narraiative which they feed the masses via the Fox/CNN/NYTimes.

Having grown up facing the draft around the Vietnam invasion I have been blessed with knowing not to trust my government's war adventures. May all people around the world— Russians and Ukrainians included — learn this lesson also. War is a racket.