I DON’T like to say ‘I told you so,’ particularly when innocent people have died so needlessly, but I did predict that eastern Ukraine would be handed over to Moscow at the very beginning of the invasion and this is becoming a reality. In fact there was never a chace that the conflict would escalate beyond this sole objective. Having a hostile, Russian-speaking population on the doorstep was always a thorn in the side of Kyiv’s puppet-government and yet in the eyes of its subjects handing the region over to Russian imperialists directly would have seemed like a gross betrayal.

From my perspective, this entire conflict has been nothing but an enormous charade in which the decision to offload the eastern territories was made before a shot had even been fired and I made this clear over three years ago. The 31 Ukrainian men, women and children who were cruelly blown to bits in the city of Sumy yesterday morning as they made their way to church, simply to accelerate a contrived peace on imperialist terms, are destined to be remembered as mere ‘casualties of war’ in the latest repulsive carve-up hatched by the amalgamated ruling classes of Kyiv, Moscow, Washington, London and Brussels.

Events of this kind, played-out in the globalist media as a daily chronicle of mass fabrication, are precisely why ordinary people must stop taking sides in staged battles and ensure that every nation-state is erased from the face of our planet.