Comments by "William Morris" (@williammorris584) on "'Putin can still be crushed': Russia's brutal invasion two years on | Ukraine: The Latest Special" video.

  1. Ukraine has inserted a reserve brigade, perhaps their only fresh reserve, to break the encirclement of Avdiivka and extract what they can of the defenders who must choose between surrender or flight across ground swept by Russian artillery and air-delivered ordnance. An appalling military decision presumably made for the sake of the information space. This debacle had been predictable, and predicted by many, for weeks. And with the Europeans disarmed by decades of fecklessness, Ukraine’s main hope is staked on the US House in recess, whose Speaker has no inclination to bring the passed Senate bill to the floor. Unless cutoff positions have been prepared, the Ukrainians have just left their most heavily fortified positions on the whole front to face the Russians in unimproved terrain with battered units, albeit on a shorter line when the Russians have cleared Donetsk as a logistical hub for further operations.
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  2. 8:33 Exactly. It’s more IF than when Ukraine aid gets to a vote in the US House. And even if it does, it may be months away, and party discipline in the House is a different animal than in the Senate. Only part of the resistance is US politics. There is also a strong strain in US public opinion and political circles of resentment for the Europeans coasting on defense for decades while sheltering under the US defense umbrella.
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  3. I think he’s been thoughtful and balanced. And my disclaimer is that I’m a skeptic of Ukraine winning.
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  4. DW has an occasional analyst on and she’s superb, unfortunately can’t recall her name.
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  5. At least it’s a mea culpa, but is meeting the previous goal sufficient for both their needs and aiding Ukraine after taking a few decades off ?
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