"I don't see that any branch of the media is suspiciously silent on this." I hope you realise this means you are fully relying on a very narrow stream of information. I suggest adding https://scheerpost.com/ and also reading what the "other side" has to say on the matter. Sources like :

https://menafn.com/1105397669/Danilov-Says-Ukraine-Being-Offered-Korean-Scenario-For-Truce

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202301/1283655.shtml

Only then are you able to make up your own, informed, opinion and not fall into the dogma trap set up for you on both sides. That is why any type of censorship is pure evil.

As for the crime syndicate....Dick Cheney, George Bush, mignons like Tony Blair and other enablers of the energy robbery of Irak (and other countries) perfectly fit that bill.

Noam Chomsky, using the US's very own definition, proves that the US is the world's biggest terrorist state. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRbnPA3fd5U This has been common knowledge for decades. That is if you have the wish and decency to want to see it. Most US citizens simply don't.