Comments by "Sean Cidy" (@seancidy6008) on "Can Ukraine still Win? Defense Priorities Panel evaluates U.S. interests u0026 policy options" video.

  1. Emma Ashford gently points out that Russian collapse is has to be assumed by anyone who thinks Ukraine could win. As she says such a collapse would require Ukrainian offensives and the West is not going to do that. She further says that the effectiveness of Ukrainian defence will be the key to denying Russia total victory.
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  2. Ukraine has been regarded as a crucial key to world power since Halford Makinder in the nineteenth century, and Russia has such propinquity to it they cannot be made to stop fighting. If the West went all out to help Ukraine with supplies. the Russian military autocracy of Putin would get clobbered and might collapse, or might prefer to escalate to battlefield nuclear weapons use against the Ukrainian army.  @swankfiber5278 
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  3. It would be nice to do what he says, but in the real world it is not practicable and that is probably a good thing given that Russia's reaction might be more cobra than tortoise.
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  4. Phase one; You amass an advantage in fires and manpower, then attack an objective that the enemy must defend and bring the bulk of his army to battle, where under the stress of facing an unfavourable correlation of forces, its will to resist against the odds can be destroyed. Phase two: the war changes from a positional one to one of movement. (eg WW1 in 1918).
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