Ukraine Always Get What You Want

Russia: We won't "allow" a neighbor to join NATO.
Unprovoked attack on a neighbor who really wasn't in line to join NATO.
Two other neighbors who hadn't applied to NATO are now joining NATO.

Good job, Vlad.

 

Now the Russians appreciate what they are up against and with only two axes to support can concentrate their supplies. Russian air defences have good coverage over the Donbas and they will likely be able to bring significant air power to bear. Combined with their advantage in artillery, and the fact that the fighting will be in the countryside rather than into urban centres, Ukrainian troops will need to manoeuvre to survive.

Why the battle for Donbas will be very different from the assault on Kyiv

 

I’m not the biggest BoJo fan but even with Russian troops having pulled back from Kyiv, that took some stupidity/courage to go there.

 

Genius

 

I lean more toward the former than the latter.

 

My, my, my, uh, uh, excursion as it were, was, was, a way for me to emulate in some small way, the, the, the great Winston Churchill. I, I, I, dare say a Labour leader, never, never would have ventured, forth as, as, I, I, I, have. And unerringly, I might add.

 

Probably, but still.

(Keep Biden away from that place, fwiw).

 

India is heavily dependent on Russia for weapons to arm its military and for fertilizer to grow its food. Even with the antipathy it has for China and its increasingly warm and fuzzy relations with the West through the Quad, Delhi would be cutting its own throat if it supported sanctions on Russia the way the US wants. Moreover, the US would be foolish to insist India did so. In a world of five, you must always be one of three.

 

Ukraine Live Updates: Claims of Atrocities Mount as Russia Prepares a Renewed Offensive

 

Infuriating to see questions like this framed rhetorically:


jfc of course it is

Chernihiv: Are these Russia's weapons of war?

 

One Klitschko.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/10/ukraine-kyiv-mayor-war/

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/04/10/ukraine-russia-war-zelensky/

Ukraine is preparing for a “massive attack in the east,” its ambassador to the United States, Oksana Markarova, warned Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” Of the Russian forces, she said: “There are so many of them and they still have so much equipment. And it looks like they’re going to use all of it. So we are preparing for everything.”