Good evening. It's Friday, February 24th. Welcome to a new episode of System Update. Our live

nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 PM Eastern exclusively here on

Rumbull, the free speech alternative to YouTube.

Tonight is the one year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the decision

by the US and its NATO allies to treat that war as its own proxy war, with the US alone appropriating

more than $100 billion thus far in counting, almost twice the entire annual Russian

military budget, and sending so many weapons to that war zone that America's own weapon stockpiles are dangerously depleted.

For months, we heard from the media outlets align with the U.S US security state that Joe Biden with great diplomatic adeptness

had united the entire world against Russia and behind the United States in support of Ukraine and yet and I know this will shock many of you, these

media claims were false and propagandistic from the start. Major newspapers

around the world this week, including the New York Times and the Washington Post

acknowledged finally the far

different reality that the world is deeply divided and most of the world refuses to

join Biden's call for unity in support of his war policies in that country. The reasons for

this are complex and revealing and we'll spend some time analyzing what accounts

for Biden's diplomatic failure. Then, as we do regularly on our Friday evening show,

we will welcome the independent journalist Michael Tracy

to analyze the week in review.

Michael is currently in Munich,

where he spent the week at the annual Munich Security Conference, where,

needless to say, the war in Ukraine dominated.

We'll talk to him about what he observed, as well as a variety of other news events

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