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Feb 21, 2024 · In a speech at the Munich conference, Scholz gave a hint of how the West is quietly redefining its war aims in Ukraine. Rather than say “Ukraine will win,” or “Russia must leave Ukraine,” the German Chancellor argued that Putin should not be allowed to dictate the terms of peace in Ukraine.
Mar 1, 2022 · Why do Russia, the U.S. and Europe care so much about Ukraine? Both Russia and the West see Ukraine as a potential buffer against each other. Russia considers Ukraine within its natural sphere...
- Patrick Kingsley
Dec 7, 2021 · Vladimir Putin Dec 7, 2021. Biden-Putin Square Off for 2 Hours as Ukraine Tensions Mount. Joe Biden Dec 3, 2021. Biden Administration Seeks to Prevent Potential Russian Invasion of Ukraine....
Apr 17, 2024 · Published: April 17, 2024 8:37am EDT. Ukraine is now experiencing a level of existential threat comparable only to the situation immediately after the full-scale Russian invasion in February...
- Putin’s War of Expansion
- Putin Waiting The West Out
- Will The Invasion Fall Off The Radar?
- 3 Reasons to Meet Ukraine’s Military Requests
In an interview with a German newspaper, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg estimatedthe war could take years, rather than months. Patrick Sanders, the incoming chief of the British Army, has claimed the UK’s armed forces need to be oriented around fighting a ground warwith Russia. And after an awkwardly frosty hugwith President Volodymyr Zele...
Another reason the West should avoid the temptation of hand-wringing is because now is the most dangerous time in Ukraine’s efforts to repel the Russian invasion. By its own estimation, Ukraine’s forces are outgunned ten-to-oneby Russian artillery in the Donbas region. However, Ukraine has no option but to keep fighting, both for national survival ...
Yet although Western elites are gloomily coming to the understanding Putin cannot somehow be managed, there remains a significant danger the conflict falls off the international radar, or that Western leaders waver as the conflict drags on. We can already see some of this happening: in the tendency of the Western media to grasp at straws over Putin...
Meeting Ukraine’s requests for heavy weapons and ammunition is in the interests of NATO members for three reasons. 1. It’s critical to show Putin that escalationcomes with real costs: something Western leaders have shied away from for decades. 2. It’s increasingly likely neither Ukraine nor Russia will be happy with any eventual settlement to the w...
- Matthew Sussex
Mar 1, 2022 · Read: Putin accidentally revitalized the West’s liberal order The people of Ukraine are suffering terribly under Russian missiles and shells; they will probably suffer more.
May 5, 2022 · Russia's military has launched a string of attacks on Ukraine's railway network, which has been vital for moving Western arms to Ukrainian forces, evacuating refugees and exporting food.
