Ukraine Always Get What You Want

I have no doubt the White House believes what it's saying, but some brake-pumping might be in order.

 

Hard to say.

Iran has a long history of drone production. With enough Russian money, who knows how many it can build - or how fast.

Iran's Drone Fleet

https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uplo...story-of-the-Iranian-drone-program.pdf?x91208

Sanctions Won’t Hurt Iran’s UAV Program

 

https://www.motherjones.com/politic...e-cirincione-eaton-resignations-nato-ukraine/

Two prominent figures have resigned in protest from the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft—one of the only major think tanks to promote a skeptical view of US power and military interventionism. In announcing their departures, Joe Cirincione and Paul Eaton criticized the organization’s dovish response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

“This is a completely unjustified, unprovoked invasion of a sovereign state. There was no justification for this,” Cirincione said in an interview Thursday with Mother Jones. “And yet Quincy keeps justifying it.”

 

Hell, before this war who knew that Turkey was making one of the most effective drones in the world?

 

This is one way to end the artillery battle — blow up all of Russia's shells. Ukraine has put the HIMARS to use by targeting a number of Russian ammunition depots, with great effect.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zo...ock-more-russian-ammunition-depots-in-ukraine

 

This is a little bit of good news. Since Ukraine retook Snake Island a couple of weeks ago, it's allowed them to resume grain exports. Whoever controls that hunk of rock is able to control a key shipping lane. Now that Ukraine is in control of it, it's able to ship stuff through a couple of Danube River ports and hug the coastline of NATO countries. Seems the Ukrainians had also been planning this by refurbishing those ports while they were working to retake Snake Island.

First, Ukraine Liberated Snake Island. Now, It’s Shipping Grain From Nearby Ports.

 

That's great news. A typical grain ship carries between 10,000 to 60,000 tons of grain. A single tractor-trailer can only carry up to 40 tons at a time.

 

The Quincy Institute is an odd duck. There is a desperate need in the US foreign policy sphere for credible voices to stand against the military-industrial complex and the shambling corpse of neoliberalism -- something QI would seem well-poised to do given its outlook and "transpartisan" nature -- but the frequency with which Quincy talking heads find themselves denying atrocities and singing the praises of foreign autocrats does a lot to undermine the worthwhile messages coming out of the institute.

Washington’s Weirdest Think Tank

 

Day 140: still not nothing

Live Updates: Ukraine to Meet With Russia for Grain Export Talks

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/ukraine-russia/

Russia-Ukraine war live news: missile destroys ammunition depot in occupied town; officials to seek grain export deal | Ukraine | The Guardian

 

and yet . . .

 

Who are the biggest donors to the Quincy Institute? Therein lies your answer.

 

Hmmm. We'll see.