ZH Geopolitical Week Ahead: Bracing For Bakhmut Loss, Pentagon Declares City 'Not Important'

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Bakhmut is very clearly about to fall to Russian forces, and conveniently the Pentagon declares that the collapse of Ukrainian forces there doesn't mean Russia is winning. Without doubt if the opposite were true, there would be 'V-Day'-style tributes splashed across the front page of the NY Times and pretty much every major newspaper in the West.