Ukraine - UK Column News - 18th November 2022

- Zelensky almost backtracks on World War Three-worthy claims regarding missile crash over Polish border
Clip: Sajid Javid said on 14 March 2022 that "not a single Russian toecap" must enter 
- US News: Polish President Duda was meeting CIA director in Warsaw as the missile hit Przewodów
Washington Post: CIA was meeting Zelensky in Kiev as the missile hit Przewodów
Patrick Henningsen analysis: Whoever was responsible, the strike on Polish soil provides opportunity for a pivot to negotiations
Clip: Just before Przewodów, Zelensky was getting away with comparing the retaking of Kherson with D–Day
On-screen graphic: Zelensky's ten peace proposals are "dead on arrival"—Ukraine is in no position to demand most of these points
RT: RIA Novosti says Russia believes Ukraine is making a mockery of peace talks by demanding that TV cameras be rolling
Patrick Henningsen commentary: This Ukrainian peace offer is designed to fail and appeals to Western petition-signers
Comedy clips: Dutch Prime Minister Rutte makes a great show of placing a phone call to Zelensky, as do Trudeau and Sunak jointly from Bali
Caption competition: Trudeau, Sunak and Schwab posing in batik shirts in Bali 
(N.B.: one Telegram channel ran this competition as "Name the boy band")
- Clip: Schwab in Bali at B20—"Deep, systemic restructuring will take some time and the world will look different afterwards"
Patrick Henningsen analysis: WEF frustrated that the new world structure is taking longer than bargained for
- Vanessa Beeley commentary on appalling Western reporting of Ukraine war
Vanessa recommends Andrei Martyanov's latest episode, Goebbels Factory and Media War Crimes
Martyanov's books: Disintegration: Indicators of the Coming American Collapse and The (Real) Revolution in Military Affairs
Martyanov's latest blog: A No-Brainer, Really—analysing the situation in Kherson as a "trap for the Ukrainian Armed Forces"
Unexpected journalistic independence from the Financial Times (also carried by the Daily Express): NATO row breaks out as Zelensky savaged for "destructive lies" over Poland missile
FT reports, "Zelensky would not budge on the issue"; one NATO diplomat in Kiev quoted as saying the Ukrainians are "openly lying" 
Clip: Military author Col. Douglas A. Macgregor interviewed by Polish Votum FM on Ukraine in regional context; also has his own YouTube channel
Vanessa's final analytical recommendation: Big Serge Thoughts on Substack, particularly his latest blog on Kherson, Surovikin's Difficult Choice—which considers and rejects the most pro-Russian explanation of the withdrawal from the city and concludes that the Russian Armed Forces faced an embarrassing overstretch

Sources:
https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-18th-november-2022