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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 is Ukraine so vulnerable? Though given money and arms by the West, Ukraine is not actually a NATO member, and so cannot count on the direct military support of the United States and its...
- Patrick Kingsley
Apr 17, 2024 · A Ukrainian withdrawal behind better defensible positions away from the current frontline in Donbas would make the former goal – capturing all of Donbas – more achievable for Russia, but deny...
Jan 24, 2022 · The West would convene urgently, discuss sanctions, perhaps even impose them like they did after Russia’s previous Ukraine invasion—but nothing more.
- 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 6, 2022 · Putin came to power at a moment of western hubris. The United States was the sole superpower in a unipolar world. Francis Fukuyama's End of History thesis, proclaiming the triumph of liberal...
Dec 5, 2021 · MOSCOW — As the Kremlin masses troops near Ukraine, it is signaling one core conviction: Russia cares more about the fate of its southwestern neighbor than the West ever will.
