The lasting damage from the crumbling lies is the eroding of presumed leadership by the United States and NATO accomplices.

A regime that commits massacres against its own people as a propaganda device to smear Russia is not going to own up to anything.

Soon the only “medium” left will be the streets and rebellion against the elites – if, that is, the Western public hasn’t been made totally comatose yet.

Importantly for the narrative to gain traction is the claim that Russia is losing the war in Ukraine.