On the one hand, I supported a free and independent Ukraine back when the same people sporting Ukrainian flags on their social media profiles were confidently declaiming that the USSR was here to stay and that Walter Duranty deserved his Pulitzer.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
On the other hand, the war in Ukraine has devolved into a World War 1 style trench-war stalemate, with advances in artillery and other technology (drones instead of machine guns, in this case) making the slashing mobile warfare of the recent past (horses then, tanks now) difficult to suicidal.\u00a0 Ukraine isn’t going to reconquer Crimea or Donbas, anymore than Mexico is going to re-take Arizona.\u00a0\u00a0 While I support Ukraine, I’m not sure how many Ukrainians and Russians need to die, or how much western material has to get poured into the meat grinder, to continually reinforce that fact.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
On the other other hand, in the wake of last week’s “fiasco” – which part of me still thinks was 50-100% staged – it’s good that Europe is talking about picking up more slack.\u00a0 Hopefullly they’ll re-shore some of the defense manufacturing capacity they’ve outsourced.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
On the other, other other hand?\u00a0\u00a0 Ukraine is going to depend on the UK and France for its long-term safety?\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Poland would like a word with them.\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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