Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on "Retired colonel explains what Russia’s latest attack indicates about its military" video.

  1. Here is something that the Republicans that President Zelensky refers to might be interested in noting. I have paraphrased and written as a comment what UK Military Studies and Defense Analyst Professor Clarke said to Kate on the BBC Frontline show that I believe deserves repeating: Michael Clarke's point of view. If Putin walks away with what is perceived by him and the rest of the world to be a victory or partial victory, then the west loses very badly, because dictatorships are on the march across the world and because we’ve now committed ourselves to Ukraine in the way we have over the last year. The credibility of liberal democracy is on the line; not just as an ideology---but as a power center in world politics of which it has been for over 200 years. So; in a way, we are on a tiger’s back now, because having committed ourselves to defeating this Putin adventure, if we fail to defeat it, then the rest of the world will draw its own conclusions about the waning power of the western world and we’ll feel the effect of that pretty strongly. What Michael Clarke expects is if Putin can be thrown back, not out of all Ukraine, that would be very good if he were, but Clarke suggests that if Putin were thrown back out of the parts of Ukraine that he’s conquered since 2022, the western world would regard that as a victory, and most probably would accept it as a win. And: though Ukraine probably wouldn’t like it, if the west thought that gaining back the territory that was conquered in 2022 was good enough, then Professor Clarke thinks Kiev would have to decide that at least for the time being that was it was okay to let Crimea be off of the bargaining table. To recap: we have got to make the war go away in the Ukraine or all western democracies will suffer the consquences. Ukraine needs air superiority now!
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