Intrepid readers were informed of three inconvenient truths about the West and Ukraine: 1) that former Soviet Republic is now literally “a NATO client state propped up by the US and Europe”; 2) CNN now acknowledged that “The question is whether the West has a similar appetite for the long haul (as Russia does)”; and 3) “There are also doubts whether Ukrainian forces…could threaten Putin’s land bridges to Crimea”, all of which is in spite of everything that the Golden Billion claimed for a full year.