Ukraine war news: the ominous silence

After a year and a half of relentlessly trumpeting Ukraine’s military achievements, The Globe and Mail seems to have imposed a news blackout. I searched in vain for any mention of Ukraine in yesterday’s print edition. In the 20 pages of the news section, not a single headline reference to Ukraine. Ditto the 12 page opinion section. It’s not till you get to the business section that Ukraine gets a mention, and that’s a speculative article by Eric Reguly about how the “sanctions from hell” are about to kick in 18 months into the war. His opinion is based on the ruble/USD exchange rate and assumes Russia needs dollars to finance the war. Reguly should know better. So after regaling us for a year and a half with tales of Ukraine, thanks to superior western arms and superior NATO training, piling humiliation after humiliation on the hapless Russian forces, the Globe falls silent on Ukraine? This comes after numerous American media, including CNN, NYT, and the Washington Post, have labelled the vastly over-hyped and long-awaited counter-offensive a devastating failure. Perhaps the worthies at Canada’s newspaper of record have determined that Canadians can’t handle bad news and are better served by no news at all.