Nuts to All That...
This isn't America's war. This isn't our role. America should focus on America's needs...
(Who is this guy and why is he getting play in the NYT? The media and the politicians are pushing yet another war that will cost the West billions, and ... for what?)
No wonder they don't want the American voters, taxpayers and citizens to follow the money, and consider what is being spent -- what kind of international future we are purchasing for our children. So sad. Nobody -- not the Church, not our wisest minds ... is speaking out against the unnecessary destruction and loss of life. We haven't learned a damn thing this century, and our war lessons are going to get even more costly as the pressing humanitarian needs grow at home...
Losing strategy 101: telling America what she has to do to fight another country's war of independence. JUST SAY NO.
America should focus on three things. First, it should no longer declare that there are measures it will refrain from taking, and weapons systems it will not provide, to support Ukraine. To signal unilateral restraint is to make an unforced concession. Worse, it emboldens Russia to probe for, and try to impose, further limits on U.S. action — making the war more, not less, risky.
Second, America, with its partners, must make clear that time is working against Russia — not in its favor, as Mr. Putin still believes. The West should demonstrate readiness to mobilize, and quickly, its huge economic superiority to enable Ukraine to defeat Russia and to impose further severe sanctions. The military and economic costs to Russia will drain its far more limited resources and place greater strains on the regime.
Third, the West should make clear to a wide range of Russian audiences that it is safe to end the war by leaving Ukraine. An orderly withdrawal is unlikely to lead to regime change, let alone the breakup of Russia. Neither outcome is an official goal of Western policy, and talk of them is unhelpful and even counterproductive. Some in the West will resist the idea of any such reassurance. But if Russia’s elites conclude that it is as dangerous for Russia to leave Ukraine as to stay, they have no incentive to press for an end to the war. Reassurance does not mean compromise.
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How stupid do they think Americans are today? (wait, don't answer that...)
Nigel Gould-Davies (@Nigelgd1) is the senior fellow for Russia and Eurasia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He was the British ambassador to Belarus from 2007 to 2009 and was the head of the economic section at the British Embassy in Moscow.
Methinks Nigel should enlist in Zelensky's army and fight the Russians himself...
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