Withdrawing support for Ukraine has become a major political issue in both the U.S. Congress and now on the presidential campaign trail, and it is causing divisions as well in European capitals.
Operationally, the potential seizure of Kupiansk is significant as it shows the continual pressure that Russia is exerting along a nearly 600-mile front.
Unfortunately, I think Russia is in better shape than is broadly believed, and certainly in better shape than Ukraine
The inertia of trillions of dollars of a massive leviathan of bases, troops, aircrafts, ships, money around the world…has its own life force.
There are about ten thousand nuclear weapons…in this world. It would only take about 1% of those to kill billions.
I was morally and intellectually broken at that point.
US and NATO tanks will not serve as wonder weapons to win the war for Ukraine
U.S. and NATO tanks will not serve as wonder weapons to win the war for Ukraine.
Abrams—with its firepower, with its speed, with its armor—is a ‘king of the battlefield.’
King understood and communicated the war in Vietnam as “a far deeper malady within the American spirit.”