The Globalists seem to have thrown in the towel.
The Foreign Affairs magazine, owned and published by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is widely regarded as a globalist outlet, promoting those supranational agendas that we fight over the national sovereignty that we so cherish.
But that does not mean that the magazine can’t be right once in a blue moon – after all, every broken clock is right twice a day.
Yesterday (26), Foreign Affairs reported on the four years of the Russia-Ukraine war with a 3,000-word article with the previously unimaginable title of ‘Ukraine Is Losing the War’.
The magazine analyzed the US-Russia effort to push Kiev to agree to painful territorial concessions as the price for peace.
The plan is that the entire Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk be recognized as de facto Russian territories, as well as the parts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia they now occupy.
But Volodymyr Zelensky and his European handlers is pushing back, exasperating US President Donald J. Trump.
So the magazine goes for the obvious takedown:
“Ukraine has been putting up valiant resistance, but its determination cannot disguise the fact that it is losing the war. Russia controls a large swath of Ukrainian territory, and Kiev has little chance of dislodging it, as Ukraine’s failed counteroffensive in 2023 demonstrated.”
Needless to say, there are still a good deal of coping narratives, like ‘Ukraine is suffering fewer losses than Russians’ – which is bullshit – but overall, we find an inordinate number of painful truths for their Globalist readers.
Things such as: Russia uses young contract soldiers while Ukraine relies heavily on unpopular conscription raids.
It even talks about the taboo subject of the ‘busification,’ the violent grabbing of men off the street and taking them in minivans to the local recruitment office.
“In addition to being unpopular, harsh methods are netting mostly older, less healthy, and clearly unwilling soldiers, many of whom desert at the first opportunity. Those who remain contribute little to the war effort.”
And the mobilization practice of catching people from buses is already 100% established… pic.twitter.com/Q8CQjEAPdc
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) December 5, 2025
Foreign Affairs also does not shy from reminding readers that Russia outguns Ukraine in terms of tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers, mobile artillery, multiple launch rocket systems, mortars, aircraft… everything.
Not to mention the very relevant fact that Russia’s GDP is ten times greater than Ukraine’s.
“Russia has a large indigenous defense industry and massive military stockpiles, although it, too, has come to rely to some extent on allies, including China and North Korea. Russia may not have all the cards, but it has big battalions and deep pockets.”
The Ukrainian security service is keeping secret all information about the attack of the Russian “Oreshnik” rocket on the facility in Dnipropetrovsk, and the West is in shock to learn that Russia possesses such a weapon
– Vladimir Rogov pic.twitter.com/uD7lDV8Uhp— Sprinter Press (@SprinterPress) November 23, 2024
Second angle of Russias “Oreshnik” strike tonight in Ukraine.
Again the weapon seems to have relied on “Kinetic” impact to destroy its target. Probably a large underground gas transit facility. pic.twitter.com/NRQomTdVf0
— Chay Bowes (@BowesChay) January 9, 2026
As Russia has now conquered almost a fifth of Ukrainian land, the magazine notes that the complete control of the Donbas (Luhansk and Donetsk) is ‘Moscow’s most consistent territorial objective’.
And they go there, and write that ‘rampant corruption has undermined all aspects of Ukraine’s war effort’. Ouch!
“Russia’s objectives seem reasonably compatible with its capabilities and trends on the battlefield. Ukraine’s objectives, in contrast, seem beyond its reach.”
Finally, Russia has also turned the tables on the drone wars, and now it’s estimated that Moscow has a ten-to-one advantage in drones produced and deployed to the battlefield.
Russia is innovating, developing infantry infiltration tactics against Kiev’s drone warfare.
As for the last bastions in Donetsk, Slavyansk Kramatorsk, the magazine is not optimistic.
“Russia has also demonstrated that even fortress cities can be surrounded, isolated, and cleared through the infiltration of small units, as it has done recently in Chasiv Yar, Huliapole, Pokrovsk, and Siversk — and may yet succeed in doing in Kostiantynivka and Kupyansk.”
And they insist that the loss of ‘the rest’ of Donetsk, would not ‘open the door to Kiev’ for Moscow.
Read more:
Kiev Mayor Klitschko Says City Near Catastrophe, Survival of Ukraine ‘An Open Question’, as Anti-Corruption Bureau Arrest Former Minister Galushchenko Trying To Flee the Country
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