As if straight out of Roger Ramjet, when United States Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley admits Ukraine’s counter-offensive ‘hasn’t been a total failure’, you know it’s not long until this proxy war against Russia is exposed as a disaster. Just like the fall of Rome, it wasn’t the boots who lost Ukraine it was the suits. Right now, on so many levels, we are in a fight for the soul of the West. This is what the suits miss. That’s what is at stake. And Ukraine is a good example of how much damage can be done by so few to the lives of so many.

It’s not that the war in Ukraine has made Russia stronger; it’s that it has made the West weaker. This should be of major concern to Australia. As our country embarks on the Aukus deal we should be demanding answers not about the hardware, but about the software; in other words, the people dictating our strategic direction. It’s people who fight wars, not machines.

Putting aside that this proxy war with Russia should have never happened, once it was certain, the suits at Nato failed to deliver. Instead, they suffered from the four poisons of the mind – fear, confusion, hesitation and surprise. When it comes to physical confrontation, in the absence of Odysseus’s cunning, the best approach is Achilles’: swift, brutal and decisive.

One of those responsible for the mess in Europe and a weakened Nato, is European Union Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen. Ms von der Leyen is an example of what happens to the security of a nation led by the woke-globalists. During her time as German Defence Minister, units of the Bundeswehr had to use broomsticks for guns during a Nato exercise. Meanwhile, transgender workshops are all the rage within the US military. Now these same people want more war with Russia, and it appears China. Yet, nothing suggests the suits will have learned their lesson.

While displaying formidable synchronisation of mortars, drones and small unit tactics, Ukraine does not have an endless supply of soldiers. The counter-offensive has resulted in the slaughter of between 25,000 and 28,000 Ukraine soldiers, possibly more. This is on top of the 300,000 already dead and an equal number wounded. Next time you are at a full house at the MCG, think three times more. It is estimated Ukraine has ten brigades left, somewhere between 35,000 and 40,000 trained and equipped troops.  Ukrainian soldiers did everything demanded of them by US President Joe Biden and the suits at Nato. Yet President Biden, Milley, and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, along with the rest of the suits claim Russia has lost.

As with Barbie, they are living in a parallel universe. And most Western media just goes along with it, more obsessed with bending truths than delivering cold hard facts.  Asking questions, makes you a Putin stooge. So, this fantasy continues. Now our ammunition cupboards are bare, and Australia can only send stuff stored in the back paddock. At the same time most of the world does not support the West’s position because with the return of big-power politics, it’s the strongest tribe. And they are sick of being lectured by the suits in the West.

The one aspect lost on the suits is that war in Ukraine represents a fight for the soul of all that has made the West great. Like the withdrawal from Afghanistan, it is another flashing flight on the dashboard of the West. That is what’s on the line. While we reward participation, they refuse to be victims.  While we demand equality of outcome, they study harder. Even infrastructure projects, such as roads, bridges, airports, and wharves must be ‘gender inclusive’, whatever that means. And in a game of grand strategy, we are told Putin doesn’t fight fair.

Potential allies siting on the fence are not going to support a side unsure of itself.  A side that constantly lectures itself about its supposed evil and racist past and present. Take Foreign Policy magazine’s article by Dr Bret Devereaux arguing the US Army doesn’t need warriors. The brave Dr Devereaux ridicules the idea of emulating the Spartan ethos. According to Dr Devereaux anyone aspiring to be a Spartan is a right-wing nut job. It’s this ideology that leads to weak men. As Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson says, it’s not dangerous and disciplined men letting the West down, or the community or their family, its weak men. Whether Spartan, US or Ukrainian soldier, we want them in our trenches, just not the suits.

With this attitude it’s not surprising Nato has failed. All this while Europe and the US are in a domestic mess. Their open-borders policy is allowing in millions with zero affiliation with Western values, freedom, democracy and culture. Consider the effect on the state’s responsibility to preserve power and security in a generation. Who thinks they are interested in our national security? Even Western banks such as those in the UK are in on it, cancelling the accounts of those they deem as ‘politically exposed’. This is on top of 1984-style censorship laws and where defending women can get you labelled a Nazi.

Tanks, submarines, Javelins, F-35s and Aukus deals are not ends in themselves. These pieces of kit, and our soldiers, are the means to defend all we hold dear. Just ask Israel. Big or small, conflict runs along a moral, mental and physical continuum. Virtue and windmills will not protect you from bullies.

You might ask what has all this got to do with Ukraine? If Ukraine is a symbol of a fight for a wider cause, one of those strategic land bridges between freedom and authoritarianism, then everything. And if it is, ask yourself why didn’t the suits fight to win? Sadly, events in Ukraine illustrate we are losing our grip on the art of creating power and security to thrive on our own terms.

If we are not careful, thanks to the suits, we will go from thriving to surviving. Maybe, just maybe, only then will the suits want that Spartan.