Don't Bother to Read, You already Know: Fake News and the One-Trick Western Media

 So. . . . one of today's headlines from a news aggregator site called Benzinga:   Vladimir Putin Has Extended The War In Ukraine To 'A Second Front' In Europe: Expert

 Notice first of all that the headline is tagged "Expert" after the eye-catching phrase "Second Front." Who is this so-called 'expert'?  That would be Daniel Yergin, vice chairman of S&P Global.   

Note also that all information about this 'news' is derived from a Yahoo Finance article, previously published, the purpose of which is to sell advertising. 

 In other words, this is a low content article ripped off from another news source.  There are dozens of articles just like it all over the 'meta'. . .(spare me)  which are actually wobbly repetitions of what everyone with two brain cells to rub together already knows:

The EU countries are in energy crisis mode. Germany stands out because that's where the Russian gas pipeline comes into western Europe.  There are two other pipelines, one through Ukraine, the other through Poland, but these were  closed due to Ukraine and  political pressure from the U.S.  

With Russian energy coming through these pipelines at 20 percent capacity, you know that western Europe can't stockpile enough gas/oil to last through a Russian winter.  The German recommendation is that the European countries should right now cut down their energy usage by 15 percent.  This is a largely symbolic  as-if'we-are-doing-somethingfeel-good message because it can't be enforced and is strictly voluntary.  The economies of western Europe are not a monolith, much as the U.S. , the British, and Germany would like you to believe.  They're all different, all with different needs, capacities, strengths and weaknesses.  

This "second front" idea has little or nothing to do with the military fight in Ukraine.  It's the result of a U.S. led cabal of western leaders putting harsh sanctions on Russia, openly attempting to destroy the Russian economy, and forcing them to withdraw troops from Ukraine.  The hypocrisy of the sanctions are phenomenal in that the EU/US expect Russia to continue delivering oil and gas even as they punish Russia's economy with largely failing sanctions.  

There is no 'second front,' there is only the same front, the same conditions that existed at the start of the war, with the difference  now that conditions are far worse in Ukraine than they were before the EU/US sponsored sanctions began to have some effect.  

So far the sanctions have boomeranged.  Responding to the sanctions against them, the Russians have found new allies and new markets for  in India, China, and throughout the developing world. The Russian Ruble is stronger than ever.  While people in the U.S. are suffering high energy prices and food inflation, people in other countries are dying because of the immense stupidity of the Russia-Ukraine war, to which there is no end in sight.