Siversk About to Fall, Serbia Says Putin Planning 'Final Offer' on Ukraine Once Donbass Taken (Alexander Mercouris)

The final offer may include the Odessa region and a huge buffer zone in the East, something Kiev would likely reject. The end goal may be a complete surrender. NATO would then want to run an insurgency, but this may be difficult to implement, even with the neo-Nazis.

Meanwhile the US is supporting Israel in threatening an attack on Iran and there's rumblings from China over Taiwan. The end result of all this conflict may be the fall of Western Governments that are already crumbling. War as a distraction may not work. 

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, July 16, 2022.]