I believe the Ukraine situation will be post-war sometime in 2023. This contradicts the recent words of the NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg and last year’s statements by US CJCS General Mark Milley.
The recent Judge Napolitano interview with Scott Ritter is invaluable. Ritter, who has studied this situation in depth, and US warfighting and war-making for decades, explains that the war should be finished as early as August 2023. Interestingly, he notes that both Zelensky and General Zaluzhnyi have made similar projections.
Ritter mentions things that we don’t often hear in US media, although given the US military is missing its recruitment targets, year after year – we certainly should. He refers to Ukrainian video, like this one, of policemen chasing down men in the street to “recruit” them to a deadly and unpopular front.How long can something like this last? The model of the Korean armistice tells us that with the right level of stupidity and stubbornness, and US money, it can last for many decades. This indeed is the model that people are talking about here, and here. The Rand Corp produced, just this month, a new shift in its concept for Ukraine. Instead of a war to attrit and weaken, even destroy, the Russian Federation, they propose something really radical: figuring out a way to make peace and stop the bleeding.
Ritter suggests, as do many others, that while the Russian “side” is getting stronger, faster, and better, the Ukrainian side has become a bone-grinder, a blood pump, dependent on increasingly hard-to-come-by donations of various military aid. Even if NATO and DC don’t want to recognize this reality, Ukrainians do, because they are living and dying in it and watching their country’s economy and environment be broken, contaminated, and set back a century.
The political leadership in Europe, in the US and in Kiev are increasingly being ridiculed by their own state media, and people are stepping down from their posts. We have seen the trickling end of the blue and yellow flag-waving and blatant war cheerleading that possessed the blue coasts of the US for the past year. This somewhat mainstream article suggests that Zelensky (long associated with the Democratic Party specifically) has the goods on Joe Biden, as a way of explaining his arrogant demands that we destroy Russia for him.
This comes on the heels of a strangely concerted effort many have observed within the Democratic organs of the state, including its major editorial boards at the NYT and WP, to ensure Biden does not run for President again.
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