what i find amazing is that the west expects Ukraine to single-handedly take down russia -- to oppose which NATO was in fact conceived. do you really think after Ukraine wins we will need NATO? or we would ask for permission to reinstate our nuclear program? like, literally - _why_ would we?
ps.
all the west's hand wringing over possible nuclear attack looks extremely hypocritic -- taking into account the support (and arms) it provides to Israel which uses it to attack russian bases in Middle East -- with no nuclear attacks so far.
Ukraine lacks the resources, manpower, willpower, or military competence to keep fighting successfully. Russia can't keep it up forever but they don't have to. It's a no win situation ending in surrender, partition, and an accelerated Weimar period for Ukraine or total occupation/vassalization after the front collapses
Yes, I do have something to say: The West should do its job and give Ukraine the weapons and leeway it is asking for, unless and until it says it is ready to do a deal. Otherwise, Western countries are risking exactly the sort of outcomes I warn about toward the end of my essay: (1) A Ukraine unbound, fighting by methods which will backfire on the West, or (2) an insurrection that continues the war against Russia. Really, I'm not sure how you think any of these recent events undermine my point (and, sorry, but the front is not "collapsing").
You're typing here like you have served in a military for 20 years, and not like an armchair anonymous troll who has never been to Russia or Ukraine, nor could find Ukraine on the map without google it in 2021.
Congrats on a well assembled op-ed! Your listing of facts stands the test of time!
Most of the peer readers have never read a History of Ukraine book, say the one by Orest Subtelny.
Then, it actually takes quite some time to read thru at least 1000 years of legal sex-slave trade in Ukrainian children by centuries of Muscovy families breeding mass abductors able to attack Ukraine's hinterland to mass traffick in Ukrainian children with their fav client, the Muslim Ottoman Empire slave buyers.
Centuries of mass castration of Ukrainian boys for sale for gold needed by endless tsars for their Kremlin child harems just does not fit into the 2026 Kremlin Muscovy Ethnic narratives about how Western they are.
The world's FIRST written constitution was issued in 1710 by Ukrainian Fathers fighting to create a legal democratic system that would ensure that all future Ukrainian children would have liberty, freedom and democracy as a right. Guess what ethnic group attacked these Ukrainian fathers asap?
The 13 colonies had founding fathers who reformulated the original thought out of Ukraine's 1710 world original Constitution into their much later but wonderful US Constitution. The Tsar controlled Kremlin Muscovy Ethnics had no need of any legal stuff about democracy or children's right not to be abused and then sold for gold into slavery.
The point of no return was in my opinion passed on the day Kherson and Zaporozhzhia were annexed. Once these territories became formally a part of Russia, it is hard to imagine that Putin would agree to withdraw from them. And Ukraine of course cannot agree to an agreement that would require them to withdraw from a large chunk of territory that they control even today.
what i find amazing is that the west expects Ukraine to single-handedly take down russia -- to oppose which NATO was in fact conceived. do you really think after Ukraine wins we will need NATO? or we would ask for permission to reinstate our nuclear program? like, literally - _why_ would we?
ps.
all the west's hand wringing over possible nuclear attack looks extremely hypocritic -- taking into account the support (and arms) it provides to Israel which uses it to attack russian bases in Middle East -- with no nuclear attacks so far.
Ukraine lacks the resources, manpower, willpower, or military competence to keep fighting successfully. Russia can't keep it up forever but they don't have to. It's a no win situation ending in surrender, partition, and an accelerated Weimar period for Ukraine or total occupation/vassalization after the front collapses
Lot of unexamined assumptions crammed into that paragraph.
As the front collapses and Ukrainian men become scarcer, do you have anything to say?
As the "Victory Plan" has been rejected, do you have anything to say?
Yes, I do have something to say: The West should do its job and give Ukraine the weapons and leeway it is asking for, unless and until it says it is ready to do a deal. Otherwise, Western countries are risking exactly the sort of outcomes I warn about toward the end of my essay: (1) A Ukraine unbound, fighting by methods which will backfire on the West, or (2) an insurrection that continues the war against Russia. Really, I'm not sure how you think any of these recent events undermine my point (and, sorry, but the front is not "collapsing").
Enlighten me
You're typing here like you have served in a military for 20 years, and not like an armchair anonymous troll who has never been to Russia or Ukraine, nor could find Ukraine on the map without google it in 2021.
Congrats on a well assembled op-ed! Your listing of facts stands the test of time!
Most of the peer readers have never read a History of Ukraine book, say the one by Orest Subtelny.
Then, it actually takes quite some time to read thru at least 1000 years of legal sex-slave trade in Ukrainian children by centuries of Muscovy families breeding mass abductors able to attack Ukraine's hinterland to mass traffick in Ukrainian children with their fav client, the Muslim Ottoman Empire slave buyers.
Centuries of mass castration of Ukrainian boys for sale for gold needed by endless tsars for their Kremlin child harems just does not fit into the 2026 Kremlin Muscovy Ethnic narratives about how Western they are.
The world's FIRST written constitution was issued in 1710 by Ukrainian Fathers fighting to create a legal democratic system that would ensure that all future Ukrainian children would have liberty, freedom and democracy as a right. Guess what ethnic group attacked these Ukrainian fathers asap?
The 13 colonies had founding fathers who reformulated the original thought out of Ukraine's 1710 world original Constitution into their much later but wonderful US Constitution. The Tsar controlled Kremlin Muscovy Ethnics had no need of any legal stuff about democracy or children's right not to be abused and then sold for gold into slavery.
The point of no return was in my opinion passed on the day Kherson and Zaporozhzhia were annexed. Once these territories became formally a part of Russia, it is hard to imagine that Putin would agree to withdraw from them. And Ukraine of course cannot agree to an agreement that would require them to withdraw from a large chunk of territory that they control even today.
Early ‘22?
Maybe check this out if you're interested in actual critical engagement https://www.philippelemoine.com/p/the-russo-ukrainian-war-and-the-end