Posted on 07/28/2022 7:25:47 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The United States is nearing a gut-check on Ukraine.
Five months after Russia invaded Ukraine, the war is now reduced to one of attrition. The current dirty, grinding slog is fought mostly with artillery and rockets. Everything from Ukraine’s shopping centers to apartment buildings—and the civilians in them—are Russian targets.
Most outsiders have already forgotten the heroic Ukrainian winter repulse of the botched Russian shock-and-awe effort to sweep into Kyiv, decapitate the government, and declare the eastern half of the country a Russian protectorate within mere days.
Months later, the long war devolves further into a contest of mass and weight—tons of explosives blowing up pathways for massed troops grabbing a few more charred miles of ruined landscape.
Vladimir Putin bets he can throw in more men and more shells than Ukraine and its Western suppliers can match. He is quite willing to “win” by laying waste to eastern Ukraine even if it means losing three Russian soldiers for every Ukrainian.
When war becomes such gridlocked carnage, each side looks to new game-changing diplomacy, strategies, allies, or weapons to break the deadlock.
For Putin, such escalation means more flesh, steel, and explosives. His country is 28 times bigger than Ukraine, and over three times more populous, with an economy 15 times larger.
As for Putin’s financial reserves, the Western oil boycott means increasingly little to him when 40 percent of the planet’s population in India and China are eager to secure near-limitless Russian energy.
Another 750 million people in Europe once talked tough. But as a second winter nears, their gas and oil imports from Russia will further wither. Then their Churchillian rhetoric may chill.
(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...
Soros and the leftist globalists are heavily involved in Ukraine. Why are they so invested there and what are they trying to do?
VDH ping
“Most outsiders have already forgotten the heroic Ukrainian winter repulse...”
Yeah, but we’ll always have Vogue.
“...(Putin’s) country is 28 times bigger than Ukraine, and over three times more populous...”
You do not understand Western thinking. The fact that a giant country invades much smaller ones like the Republic of Georgia and Ukraine means it is a bully criminal. Americans do not like bullies. Americans love a good David and Goliath story. Americans want to help.
America will eventually need to undergo its own sort of “de-nazification” - from the neocons and their first-cousins, the WEF globalists, both of whom absolutely dominate Washington DC and all its institutions.
Sadly, it won’t happen until they are badly humiliated, which also means great suffering for average Americans.
Vladimir Putin bets he can throw in more men and more shells than Ukraine and its Western suppliers can match. He is quite willing to “win” by laying waste to eastern Ukraine even if it means losing three Russian soldiers for every Ukrainian.
Very interesting take on the Ukrainian war by VDH. Worth a click to the site to read the rest.
FR Index of his articles: Victor Davis Hanson on FR
Town Hall: Victor Davis Hanson on Town Hall
American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness
His website: Victor Davis Hanson
Please let me know if you want on or off this new VDH ping list.
The Leftist globalists are involved heavily in Moscow too. What about Obama’s promise of “greater flexibility” to Russia? What about Hillary’s uranium deal for Russia? What about Russia’s history of subversion for all Western countries?
Yes they are, but they have nothing to do with Ukrainian sovereignty or Russia’s need to expand out to Katherine the Great’s borders.
Every conflict has profiteers.
Nice article but to topple the government within days was never Putin’s goal. It has always been destroy the military and de-nazification. Lots of death still to come until Zelensky and the West wake up and sue for peace.
VDH had been talking like a neocon lately. This essay appears to be a move toward a more realistic position.
I noticed that too.
Vladimir Putin bets he can throw in more men and more shells than Ukraine and its Western suppliers can match. He is quite willing to “win” by laying waste to eastern Ukraine even if it means losing three Russian soldiers for every Ukrainian.
Very interesting take on the Ukrainian war by VDH. Worth a click to the site to read the rest.
FR Index of his articles: Victor Davis Hanson on FR
Town Hall: Victor Davis Hanson on Town Hall
American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness
His website: Victor Davis Hanson
Please let me know if you want on or off this new VDH ping list.
Like all good leftist, you pretend to speak for what Americans want or like. IOW’s you’re full of zelensky.
VDH lost his fastball.
He fell for the State Department BS.
“the heroic Ukrainian winter repulse of the botched Russian shock-and-awe effort to sweep into Kyiv, decapitate the government, and declare the eastern half of the country a Russian protectorate within mere days.”
Wrong. It was a very clever feint, to tie up Ukraine forces near Kviev while going after his stated goal, of capturing the East.
Etc.
If America suffers because of Moscow then Moscow will cease to exist.
“Americans love a good David and Goliath story.”
That is the old America. The new Americans don’t even know who David and Goliath were.
Tell me, how does one resisting an invasion that renames central plazas in Ukraine after Lenin being a Leftist? Isn’t the resistance to Leninism a Rightist sort of thing?
“If America suffers because of Moscow then Moscow will cease to exist.”
What a joke.
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