Friend of mine lives here and is from Ukraine. Her father left Ukraine early on when the war started and he could not return but her mother could go back and forth. It is a horrible war and when a leader leaves to have photo shoots in Vogue magazine, and has over a billion in his own bank account with his people starving and dying, tells you there are no winners in war except maybe the leaders of each country!
Best possible solution is the one that most quickly ends the war.
For me, the lessons of the A-bomb are clear here. If you have a recalcitrant enemy who'll never surrender. You have to show him overwhelming force. You have to show him his situation is hopeless. To be 110% clear, I do not support using nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons to do this. With precision-guided weapons such things are no longer necessary.
But Russia should consider a "shock and awe" campaign to blitz the reported ~60,000 defenders of Bakhmut. The enormous Russian force in Belarus probably needs to be brought into the fight. The West have to see that this proxy war is a failure. The lines on the map have to move.
Friend of mine lives here and is from Ukraine. Her father left Ukraine early on when the war started and he could not return but her mother could go back and forth. It is a horrible war and when a leader leaves to have photo shoots in Vogue magazine, and has over a billion in his own bank account with his people starving and dying, tells you there are no winners in war except maybe the leaders of each country!
Best possible solution is the one that most quickly ends the war.
For me, the lessons of the A-bomb are clear here. If you have a recalcitrant enemy who'll never surrender. You have to show him overwhelming force. You have to show him his situation is hopeless. To be 110% clear, I do not support using nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons to do this. With precision-guided weapons such things are no longer necessary.
But Russia should consider a "shock and awe" campaign to blitz the reported ~60,000 defenders of Bakhmut. The enormous Russian force in Belarus probably needs to be brought into the fight. The West have to see that this proxy war is a failure. The lines on the map have to move.