Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on "Ukraine 'outnumbered' in Sievierodonetsk as Russia 'withdraws' Black Sea ships | DW News" video.

  1. Please allow me a second comment to Jessica Berlin's criticism of Germany's Olaf Sholz and France's President Macron. Of all the western and NATO leaders, these two countries are championing the Lavrovian philosophy of saying one thing and doing the opposite. French and German arms are pouring into the Ukraine as we speak and President Macron and Chancellor Sholz are saying the opposite. Why are they doing this? Someone has to play to two audiences and these two leaders know they have President Putin's ear. But the price is to mimic puppet regimes and praise Russia for its desire to end the war soon. I am not a military strategist, but what I see is a new stage of the war where we can no longer believe what either side is saying.
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  2. Excellent reporting and if I may say something as a layperson with no military experience to Mr Ledwidge. What I think we have to realize is that the west is finally using Lavrovian diplomacy tools in detailing arms shipments and battleground tactics and projections on the end of the conflict. What do I mean by Lavrovian diplomacy? The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says one thing and does another thing the next day. It's the Russian way to keep the opposition off-balance. I could be wrong, but I think what we are seeing is the Ukrainians and the western allies are using the same technique. They say they're delivering 4 rocket launchers---but that might be today's batch. Lastly, and it would be interesting to have Frank's take on this suggestion. Mr Ledwidge, wouldn't it be a better way to cover the war and help the Ukrainians win the war by staying in 24-hour increments? What do I mean by 24 time periods. If we just report what is going on in the 24-hour period we call real-time, it won't be so frightening to constantly be worrying about how the Ukraine is going to stay in the safe-zone in, say, 8 months. Everyone is starting to get worried about how on Earth the Ukrainian economy can pay for the war etc. What this does is make it look hopeless; wars cannot be predicted so let's just focus on the next 24 hours and this allows the Ukrainians to focus on what they're doing today and the rest of the world can evaluate what is happening right now and how to better use the resources they have to continue fighting rather than what the west is going to send in 6 weeks time. There are too many moving parts. Let's stay in a 24 hour or similarly short time span and not look further. It's better to take small steps to victory than live with some hypothetical amount of time for an end to a conflict that not even military specialists like Mr Ledwidge could predict with any degree of accuracy; no one knows for sure when the fighting in the Ukraine will end so why should we be wringing our hands and worrying about something we have no control over.
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