Questions Without Answers About Ukraine By Victor Davis Hanson

[mystery-ak]

Questions Without Answers About Ukraine › American Greatness
Victor Davis Hanson

Ukrainians, and many Europeans and Americans, are defining an envisioned Ukrainian victory as the complete expulsion of all Russians from its 2013 borders. Or, as a Ukrainian national security chief put it, the war ends with Ukrainian tanks in Red Square.

But mysteries remain about such ambitious agendas.

What would that goal entail?

Giving Ukraine American F-16s to strike bases and depots in Mother Russia? The gifting of 1,000 M1 Abrams tanks? Using American Harpoon missiles to sink the Russian Black Sea Fleet?

A huge arsenal that would guarantee total victory rather than not losing?

Russia’s cruel strategy is to grind down Ukraine and turn its eastern regions into a Verdun-like deathscape.

So is a brave Ukraine really winning the war when it loses about 0.6 soldiers for every Russian it kills?

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[catfish1957]

After the upcoming announcement of a Sino-Russian-OPEC pact, any F-16 entering Russian airspace is likely to trigger world war 3.  Whether it will be economic, or an actual hot war remains to be seen.

An infusion of some common sense into our foreign policy would nice for a change.