It’s true. The Russian Black Sea fleet has been mega-whupped by a country with no navy. This is the biggest success of the Ukrainian summer counteroffensive, and it’s pretty amazing. Of course, the Western MSM spent months whining that the counteroffensive failed but it’s not like anybody expects them to get anything right.
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“ussian Black Sea fleet has been mega-whupped”
Very true. Ironic considering that holding the base at Sevastopol was one of the rationalized justifications for the 2014 invasion in the first place. Now it’s a usless junkyard.
But I do hope the Ukrainian leadership realizes that the US either doesn’t want Ukraine to win or is more afraid of a Ukrainian victory than other possibilities. There’s no other explanation for the puzzling hesitation to providing air cover (and expecting big land gains without air cover). russia’s backed down on every previous ‘red line’ once it’s been crossed and Ukrainians have surpassed expectations with every other bit of help. I hope the US finds its balls….
I’d say I hope the EU can pick up the slack though decades of US funded peace has weakened it considerably…
In other news, regarding rumors of putain’s death… at first I gave it maybe 10% chance of being true but events now have me somewhere between 30 and 40%. Could still be a psy op (or way of guaging reactions) but something seems very different as of late.
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Yes, there has been a realization in Ukraine that the Biden administration doesn’t want Ukraine to win. They don’t want us to lose but they really don’t want us to win either. So we are all stuck in this executive impotence and complete sclerosis of decision-making and willpower that characterizes this administration. It’s very frustrating.
The pre-2022 world doesn’t exist anymore. You can’t go back. But the Biden administration keeps hoping it’s possible somehow to hobble back to the non-existent past.
We urgently need fresh, strong and decisive new leadership. Not just for the foreign policy but for everything. We need to get unstuck.
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Clarissa, how bad for Ukraine would a Trump victory be? I keep seen hints that even Putin is pushing for a Trump win, but I feel we’ve been there already and the mass media is not believable. Is there any basis to the idea that he might stop all aid, or is that simply an unknown right now?
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Trump was the first to send weapons to Ukraine after Obama refused for years. He refused to permit Nordstream 2 when Biden caved within days. It was the easy caving of Biden on Nordstream and the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan that inspired the 2022 invasion.
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Yeah, agreed. All those points make me think this whole “Trump is great for Russia” is a bogus argument.
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How come Ukraine has no navy?
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Ukraine had no army either before 2014. And all the top positions in the military and the intelligence services were held by the citizens of Russia.
This is criminal stupidity both on the Ukrainians’ side and on the side of the Clinton-Bush-Obama administrations that pressured Ukraine heavily to disarm and hand over its weapons to Russia. It was a total shit show before 2014 that I thought would never get better. Terrible, tragic mistakes were made and the price that’s being paid for them is very high.
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Here’s a link on how Obama disarmed Ukraine: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2573557/Flashback-Senator-Obama-pushed-destruction-15-000-TONS-ammunition-400-000-small-arms-1-000-anti-aircraft-missiles-Ukraine.html
None of this removes any responsibility from Ukraine itself, of course.
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Obama was a disaster for foreign policy. Had he somehow stayed longer, he would be giving Merkel a run for her money when it comes to lethargic and unimaginative foreign policy. No wonder they liked each other so much.
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