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Feb 21, 2024 · How did the West, with its aircraft carriers and combined economic footprint approaching €60 trillion (dwarfing China, Iran and Russia combined) cede the initiative to a shrinking, post-Soviet country with the GDP of Spain, and end up in a defensive crouch flinching at the next affront from Putin?
Jan 24, 2022 · Analysis. The West Fell Into Putin’s Trap. Even if Russia never invades Ukraine, it is accomplishing one of its major goals in Europe. By Caroline de Gruyter, a columnist at Foreign Policy...
- 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.
Dec 12, 2023 · The war between Russia and Ukraine can continue indefinitely unless the West realizes that what’s at stake isn’t just the fate of Ukraine but the future of the West itself. Ukrainian...
Mar 1, 2022 · President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia launched an invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, just as diplomats at the United Nations Security Council were calling on him to refrain from war and hours...
Sep 9, 2023 · Saturday 9 September 2023 15:47, UK. The West faces a dilemma as war drags on in Ukraine - how much support to give to Zelenskyy. Why you can trust Sky News. The West was unified in its condemnation of Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022.