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Thanks for the report. 100% agree with your assessment of Biden administration decisions on Ukraine and Putin. The Biden administration absolutely took council with its fears and made numerous serious policy errors as a result. They’re still making them today. I also agree a second Trump administration is unlikely to be any improvement.

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Almost a Neville Chamberlain level failure. I like the old codger, but his instincts about Russia are pure 1970's balderdash.

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Right on. He is mentally equating Russia with the Soviet Union. He believes that there is some kind of super power there that should be respected, and if so will keep mostly to its sphere of influence. And while he wants to contain Russia, it definetly shouldnt include the break up of Russia. So he ends up not taking any action, because he cannot get his head out of the seventies.

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!00% right. One-shot wonders like Woodward often make this mistake. They have a fantastic break and think they have the MIDAS touch when actually they are riding on the past.

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The Russian economy is collapsing? But the Main Stream Media has been telling us that it is going strong.... How about that? (And my money says they will NOT report further evidence of collapse.)

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when you mention biden, you are forgetting joke sullivan, who has been appleasing russia since 2014, yes or that long, he was obamas foregin guy, he oversaw crimeas invasion in 2014, and did not respond, what about the donbass?, enough said

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Stefan, you're the "Bernstein" to me ;) I'd like to add that a big reason against the U.S. backpaddling from the Ukraine invasion is that it would embolden others to jockey for position. That Azerbaijan took Nagorno-Karabakh using Israeli weaponry bought with fossil fuels is a fundamental world war move. No one paid attention or did anything about it.

Then we had Iran supplying Russia forming a bigger alliance. Now North Korea, and it's blowing up its roads into South Korea. And bigger Chinese exercises around Taiwan which one day, in a split of a second, turn not exercise.

No one fears the U.S. anymore. "The threat is mightier than the sword" And Biden never threatened the right thing. As you wrote, threats about using nukes on both sides is political theater. I don't believe it matters who is elected. The world is at war. The time to have prevented it has come and gone.

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Thanks for the report. Interesting reflections on the strategy of attrition, unfortunately I believe Russia will take at least one more year before collapse. But it will be interesting to see how hard the winter is for Russia. It was hard last winter. I know its going to be hard on Ukrainia, but hope we in the West can at least contributed to some reduction of that. But what really encouraged me was the drone news. That is where Ukraines best hope is. And maybe South Korea to deliver a million high quality grenades after finding their neighbour in the process of mercenarying for Putin, probably to be paid for with military technology.

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The day I realized Ukraine was in trouble was in early 2021 when Biden went to meet Putin to normalize relations after Putin had interfered with the 2016 election as well as launched a serious cyber attack against the US. Delaying military aid to Ukraine just fits the pattern that there are senior Democratic natsec officials who want to maintain good relations with Russia regardless if Russia poses an existential threat to the US or not. These are men like Jake Sullivan whose friends include pro Russia Samuel Charap and other pro Russian Biden era natsec officials who were not were not brought back during the Biden admin but were visitors during 2022 in efforts to delay aid.

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Thanks for the article. Btw, reports today in croatian press of 30 m-84 tanks and 30 older armored vehicles being shipped to Ukraine. Croatia to join Germany’s tank initiative and get 50 new Leopards for a reduced price. Would have liked that we shipped all 75 of our m-84s last year already (Croatia doesnt need tanks we need air defence and drones), but its a start.

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