A Gamechanger

The glaringly obvious has been publicly confirmed. The U.S. military and intelligence have been helping Ukraine to target its strikes on the Russian oil and gas industry since January. As I keep repeating, this is a complete change of course in comparison with the Biden administration, which prevented Ukraine from striking these facilities.

This form of cooperation, as confirmed by the New York Times, began at the precise time when Ukraine’s goose seemed to be cooked back in January. If you remember, I said it here on the blog that if Ukraine survived February, that would be a miracle. Since then, Ukraine’s situation on the battlefield and outside of it improved dramatically. The Trump administration came through in a truly big way.

Again, motivations, feelings, mind-reading, psychoanalyzing: none of that matters compared with the results. The results of the Biden administration for Ukraine were enormously worse than the results of the Trump administration. What anybody wanted or wants right now is of zero concern to me. I only want Russia to be defeated and stop creating dysfunction, particularly of the anti-American kind, around the world. The Biden and previously the Obama/Clinton method were strengthening Russia. I don’t care what they wanted or thought they wanted. We’ll never know that for sure. All I know is that the results were horrible. But they said a lot of correct supportive words, and people tend to confuse that with reality.

2 responses to “A Gamechanger”

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    Anonymous

    What would be a real gamechanger is if the US could provide Ukraine a few Tomahawks to destroy the ballistic missile- producing factories. It would be cheaper and faster. To receive the license for the Patriot missiles and then to set up the production factory will take several months at best. Meanwhile, Ukrainian cities are being pounded with the Russian ballistic missiles, people are being killed, so Ukraine needs the Patriot missiles now. I’m not saying that Ukraine doesn’t need the license to produce the anti-ballistics, but there are certain decisions that must be made now.

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      The license is important because it’s recognition that this isn’t a situational problem. Russia will want to continue invading for as long as there is Russia. This is a recognition that we haven’t been able to get from anyone ever. Not even Reagan who kept believing that a good Russia was possible if only the Commies went away. Definitely not from Obama who was hoping for a “reset.”

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