The umpteenth time someone is claiming they know the secret to end the war.
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SS: Jakub Grygiel writes that the United States should provide Kyiv the weapons it needs to win the war against Russia without limits on striking Russian territory, saying “United States and its allies need to give Kyiv one last serious chance at victory—defined not as a return to Ukraine’s 2013 borders (as Kyiv would prefer) but as a sustainable restoration of roughly its 2021 borders.”
He continues that “the most plausible way to achieve this goal is to surge weapons to Ukraine and place no restrictions on their use.”
Decisive action and “stabilizing Europe first”, Grygiel argues, “would allow Washington to concentrate its efforts in the Asian theater, where it faces a looming threat from China”.
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I don’t understand. How could Ukraine possibly recover all lost territories before November? I don’t think that is a realistic scenario at all.
Also, if they’d manage to achieve it, how would they settle on NOT reconquering Crimea also if they see they can take all the rest in few months? War would not end anyway.
On top of that, having no restrictions on weapon usage means they can strike on Donbas, ok, but why not, Moscow. They would not do it, but Russia could use it to escalate the war efforts with the pretext of self-defense.
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The umpteenth time someone is claiming they know the secret to end the war.
SS: Jakub Grygiel writes that the United States should provide Kyiv the weapons it needs to win the war against Russia without limits on striking Russian territory, saying “United States and its allies need to give Kyiv one last serious chance at victory—defined not as a return to Ukraine’s 2013 borders (as Kyiv would prefer) but as a sustainable restoration of roughly its 2021 borders.”
He continues that “the most plausible way to achieve this goal is to surge weapons to Ukraine and place no restrictions on their use.”
Decisive action and “stabilizing Europe first”, Grygiel argues, “would allow Washington to concentrate its efforts in the Asian theater, where it faces a looming threat from China”.
I don’t understand. How could Ukraine possibly recover all lost territories before November? I don’t think that is a realistic scenario at all.
Also, if they’d manage to achieve it, how would they settle on NOT reconquering Crimea also if they see they can take all the rest in few months? War would not end anyway.
On top of that, having no restrictions on weapon usage means they can strike on Donbas, ok, but why not, Moscow. They would not do it, but Russia could use it to escalate the war efforts with the pretext of self-defense.