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Posted: Dec 5, 2024 - 9:34am

US may push but Ukrainians balk at lowering draft age to 18
Washington voices keep asking for more.
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Posted: Nov 30, 2024 - 3:04pm

Gleeful Graham: Ukraine War all 'about money'
The South Carolina senator says Trump can get a deal to “enrich ourselves” with rare earth minerals
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Posted: Nov 30, 2024 - 9:49am


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Posted: Nov 13, 2024 - 11:00am

Trump has a mandate to end the Ukraine War
But first we must reject the shibboleths and superstitions that have come to define this conflict

Doesn't mean he will or can end it.
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Posted: Nov 8, 2024 - 8:41pm

Pentagon lifts ban on contractors fixing U.S.-supplied weapons in Ukraine
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Posted: Nov 6, 2024 - 11:58am

Ukraine War well beyond Trump-Harris election
Experts: Kyiv is losing no matter who takes the White House. The question is, who will end it before time runs out?
“Barbarism is on the ballot,” columnist George Will declared this week, noting that if the next president doesn’t transform the current policy on Ukraine, which is “so timid, tentative and subject to minute presidential calibrations,” then Russia’s Vladimir Putin’s war could end up being a “great rehearsal” for World War Three.

Meanwhile, the New York Times has said that “two different futures loom” for Ukraine depending on the outcome of Tuesday’s election, Kamala Harris or Donald Trump.

Much of this is based on the candidates’ rhetoric, and, in the case of Harris, the Biden Administration’s current policy of supporting Ukraine with weapons and aid for “as long as it takes” to defeat Russia. Harris has suggested she would continue this policy, to “stand strong with Ukraine and our NATO allies,” if elected. She has also accused Donald Trump of being too cozy with Putin and said she would not talk to the Russian president.

For his part, Trump has said he would bring all sides to the table and end the war in a day, and he has been critical of continued U.S aid to Ukraine, which has totaled some $175 billion ($106 billion of which has gone directly to the Ukraine government) since 2022. He has offered no details for how he would end the war or bring the parties together.

But does it matter? In some ways, yes, foreign policy experts tell RS. One side wants to assure that U.S. strategy won’t change, the other advocates for a bold if not abrupt shift that involves a step back from the narrative George Will evinces, that Putin is a barbarian that can only be stopped with more war.

Those same experts say Ukraine is losing, and more weapons and more fighting cannot help. They also point out that official Washington is beginning to realize this too, as is Europe, and a shift toward diplomacy will likely happen no matter who is in the White House come January 2025. (...)

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Posted: Nov 3, 2024 - 11:27am

(Only) a penny dropped

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Posted: Sep 27, 2024 - 2:23am

this pertinent historical analogy just popped up in my twitter feed:

The British occupation of New York lasted from 1776 to 1783. Back then it was the so-called Tories, pro-British Americans, who said that it would be „impossible to defeat the British armies“, that America does not exist. In fact, despite a string of American victories, such as the Battle of Ticonderoga, British domination of North America was a fact, especially along the coast lines.

Yet, on November 25, 1783, the so-called „impossible“ happened and British troops evacuated New York. The British army was defeated and the USA finally independent, thanks to the brave American people but also thanks to the French support and intervention.

History is full of examples where a presumably weaker opponent defeated a stronger army. What was key in all those struggles was the sheer will of those people yearning for freedom. In this kind of struggle, defeatist voices are never good advisors. Seeing a certain group of Americans now demanding this from Ukrainians can only be described a deeply un-American. Would they sell their homeland to a foreign enemy? It sure looks this way.

If they lived 240 years ago and had their way or France refused to help, America would still have a king. Thankfully, the voice of reason prevailed. It should be a lesson and blueprint for all of us today, on both sides of the pond.

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Posted: Sep 18, 2024 - 9:26am

Western public wants conflict to end ASAP, and without sinking billions more into it: 
They are sick and tired of the constant escalation and want to see peace!

...and it's not about being left or right.


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Posted: Sep 4, 2024 - 5:51am


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Posted: Aug 21, 2024 - 12:58pm

Actually ... the third.



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Posted: Aug 16, 2024 - 12:21pm

Diplomacy Watch: Ukrainian officers tied to Nord Stream blasts
The plot thickens as Germany issues its first arrest warrant in the case
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Posted: Aug 12, 2024 - 7:19am

Lots of developments in Ukraine in the last few days.  It looks like Ukraine has found a way out of what many thought was a stalemate - which may not have been a stalemate at all!  Very interesting.  Still developing.

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Posted: Aug 7, 2024 - 7:36pm

What the Ukraine war has in common with Vietnam
The establishment keeps coming up with convenient answers, but always to the wrong question.
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Posted: Aug 4, 2024 - 12:29pm



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Posted: Aug 3, 2024 - 1:05pm

Biden team blows off deadline for Ukraine war strategy
Perhaps the administration can't admit it doesn't have one.
Almost 100 days have now passed since the Congress passed $61 billion in emergency funding for Ukraine, a measure that included a condition that required the Biden Administration to present to the legislative body a detailed strategy for continued U.S. support.

When the funding bill was passed with much fanfare on April 23, Section 504, page 32 included the following mandate:
“Not later than 45 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the heads of other relevant Federal agencies, as appropriate, shall submit to 18 the Committees on Appropriations, Armed Services, and Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committees on 20 Appropriations, Armed Services, and Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives a strategy regarding United States support for Ukraine against aggression by the Russian Federation: Provided, That such strategy shall be multi-year, establish specific and achievable objectives, define and prioritize United States national security interests…”
It is now August and There is still no sign on the part of the Biden Administration of any intention to submit such a strategy to Congress. This inevitably leads to the suspicion that no such strategy in fact exists. It also suggests that without a massive change of mindset within the administration, it is not even possible to hold — let alone make public —serious and honest internal discussions on the subject, as these would reveal the flawed and empty assumptions on which much of present policy is based. (...)

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Posted: Jul 31, 2024 - 4:30pm

First batch of F-16's are now flying over Ukraine

Over Lviv today:


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Posted: Jul 31, 2024 - 4:23pm

Ukraine Is Still Too Corrupt to Join the West
The strategy of winning the war by joining Western institutions has one big, homegrown hurdle.



Oh noes
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Posted: Jul 12, 2024 - 10:48am

Ukraine at a Crossroads: End the War or Risk Defeat
Ukraine has a very narrow window to turn the momentum of the war in its favor. Even then, the Russians are still holding most of the cards.
In May 2022, just three months into the Russia-Ukraine War, I wrote a three-part series in which I identified the military strategy that would give Ukraine the best chance of seeking out some sort of tactical success over Russia. It wouldn’t have guaranteed success, I warned, but it was a viable path. As it turned out, Ukraine did virtually none of what I recommended while—ironically—Russia successfully employed several key elements of the path I laid out.

Now, as we approach the two-and-a-half-year mark of the war, and Ukraine is being pushed back on all fronts, I am going to reprise my effort and lay out a realistic but tough path by which Ukraine might yet steal some military success from Russia.

I will warn from the outset that there is no path, however well-resourced, by which Ukraine can inflict an outright military defeat on Russia in the foreseeable future. Russia is too big, too well-resourced, and too well-manned for Ukraine to beat. Yet, if handled deftly, sometimes even tactical defeats by a weaker opponent can be leveraged into strategic success. The following plan represents such an opportunity. (...)

NATO only wants to seek a victory for Ukraine and a loss for Russia. However, sober analysis shows that this is an unattainable outcome either now or in the future. If the West refuses to submit to reality, the most likely outcome for Ukraine is a military defeat that could include even the eventual loss of Odesa and Kharkiv and more territory than even Putin’s June 2024 ultimatum.
The primrose path of maximalist megalomania.
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