Our current approach to supporting #Ukraine is a strategy for defeat. Russia is beatable, and has demonstrated weakness across multiple domains that can be exploited. There is a moral and strategic imperative to give Ukraine the weapons to do so. atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainea…
"Today the United States is, consciously or not, renting the Ukrainian land army to degrade Russia’s land army to sizable effect. (The same posture could be said to apply to the position of Germany or even Poland and Finland, which, unlike Germany, have real armies.) This looks like American strategic DNA. But instructing Ukraine to suffer land-war-scale casualties against Russia, a land power par excellence with a regime that does not value human life, never struck me as a persuasive strategy in this war." Stephen Kotkin, "Ukraine, Russia, China, and the World", in WAR IN UKRAINE: CONFLICT, STRATEGY, AND THE RETURN OF A FRACTURED WORLD, Ed. Hal Brands (John Hopkins University Press, 2024) As @SecDef said in April 2022, the goal of the US is to "weaken Russia" so it is a conscious and deliberate policy by the US ... regardless of death and destruction to the Ukraine. Shameful!
@WarintheFuture If Russian is saved by the bell, given a reprieve when they are cornered, that is a significant strategic error. If you do mech assault with golf carts and dirt bikes, then you are at Volkssturm level.
@WarintheFuture "The West’s preoccupation with avoiding escalation at all costs goes against basic military doctrine and has been instrumental in preventing greater Ukrainian battlefield success." And the West does not learn. It changes nothing. How is Ukraine supposed to defend itself?
@WarintheFuture You seem like a young man of age to take up arms... talk less and set an example... go to Ukraine."
How is it that NATO is so short of basic armaments, like artillery tubes and 155 mm shells. Inadequate inventories of air defense weapons, and on and on. Does it have to do with the fact that those who fund you now insisted on acquiring high-margin, gold-plated fragile weapons that can't be produced in large numbers? Why no criticism of the people responsible for that? Instead we are supposed to give these failures more money? Where is the accountability?
@WarintheFuture For those not swayed by moral & strategic arguments, I believe there's also a straightforward economic argument. If Russia takes Ukraine, defence spending will have to become top priority in Europe for decades. We should take the frozen $300bn assets and give it to Ukraine now!
@WarintheFuture Russia beatable ? 😂 They’re not doing a very good job at beating them