I thought this a pretty good explanation of where we are with the NATO war against Russia.

From Hal Turner

Ukraine is losing the war to such a degree right now that U.S. and NATO countries are beginning to panic. 

 Ukraine needs heavy weaponry and there’s plenty of such in NATO arsenals, but Ukraine does not have people trained to use it. 

When it comes to tanks, even Bradley fighting vehicles, it takes literally MONTHS to train the four or five people needed to crew such weapons systems.  After MONTHS of training, it takes months more of practice to become proficient.  Ukraine doesn’t have months.

Right now, having lost the city of Soledar, Ukraine is coming under intense pressure in Bakhmut.   This is a key place because many railroads and highways converge in that city, and all those routes are necessary to provide supplies to Ukrainian troops in the south and east of the country.

The fighting around Bakhmut has been fierce for weeks, and Ukraine is losing 300-500 troops a DAY there.  The losses are adding up so quickly, that Ukraine has had to pull reinforcements away from other places, like Zaporozyhe, to bolster Bakhmut.   Yet when they pull troops from Zaporozyhe, the Russians resume making gains down there.   If they don’t pull troops from elsewhere, then the Russians continue making gains at Bakhmut.   It truly has become futile for Ukraine.

The war is approaching a major inflection point. Something HAS to change.

The US and NATO know this.   They are faced with watching Ukraine disintegrate and lose.

The only way the US and NATO can get the heavy weapons where they’re needed is if US and NATO troops man them.   But that puts the US and NATO directly at war with Russia, which both US and NATO want to avoid.

So what has been going on is that troops in the US and NATO that are active duty, have been “quitting” then signing up and becoming part of a Private Military Contractor, and off to Ukraine they’ve been going.   One day they’re American troops, the next day they’re private military contractors.  It’s happening that fast.

Yet even with this help, it is not enough to turn the tide in Ukraine’s favor.   War is a combined effort of land, sea, air, maintenance, and replacement equipment.   Without any one of those components, Ukraine cannot turn the tide.

So the US and NATO are faced with either seeing Ukraine fail, fall apart, and lose, or having NATO join the war directly.

Word from Intel contacts is that the US and NATO are considering a “No-Fly” Zone over western Ukraine.  They are keenly aware that Russia will not tolerate that, and any coalition aircraft sent into that zone would be shot down by Russia. 

 The US and NATO would use the shoot down as a pretext to enter the war.

But there is severe division within NATO about this idea.  It would mean literal World War 3.

Yet that is what is being pushed right now.  That is how close we are to all out war.

World On Brink Of WW3 Due To West Escalating, Medvedev Warns

Aussie Cossack shares his perspective on the Russian Government’s new directive on dealing with traitors – particularly those who are overseas. Those who want the death of Russia, will be dealt with according to “rules of war”.

Согласно законам военного времени – предателей, как правило, расстреливали на месте.

The Deputy Head of the Security Council of Russia noted that in times of war there were always such special measures.

TASS: Deputy head of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev considers it possible to act according to “special wartime rules” in relation to traitors who want the death of their Fatherland.

According to the politician, on the Internet, in particular in Telegram channels, “the discussion has resumed about how to deal with traitors who have defected to the enemy and want their Fatherland to perish,” including with those figures who until recently considered themselves to be among the intellectual elite . The question arose of how to respond in such cases, legally or fairly.

“Of course, only according to the law, but if the law does not work or does not reach the goal, then according to the special rules of wartime. Let’s recall the experience of the Great Patriotic War, and other countries.

During wars, there were always such special rules. And quiet groups of impeccably invisible people performing them effectively,” Medvedev wrote on his Telegram channel .

This week, the anti-Russian statements of the actor Artur Smolyaninov caused a resonance. Some parliamentarians spoke in the media and social networks with proposals for possible measures against citizens of the Russian Federation who oppose their country.