It’s truly inspiring to watch the political theater of Western imperialism, where the supposedly sovereign government in Kyiv has its peace terms drafted by Washington in consultation with Moscow, and delivered by the US Army Secretary, with an aggressive timeline for signature that would make any colonial administrator blush. The sidelining of the delusional Kellogg, who actually believed Ukraine could win, for an envoy who produced a plan that agrees with Russia’s territorial objectives, finally pulls back the curtain on the entire charade. The key victory for the US is in engineering a situation where the puppet must publicly express his constructive and honest gratitude for the privilege of surrendering. A textbook example of a proxy war, where the client state’s role is not to win, but to lose on a schedule and with the appropriate groveling gratitude to its masters.