If the Ukrainian defense forces limit themselves to operating on Ukrainian territory, then they've lost, because the Russians are firing at them from Russia and Belarus and essentially international airspace and international waters. Bombers firing cruise missiles must simply be shot down, artillery firing from the RF and Belarus must be taken out, troops running "exercises" in Belarus - and their supply dumps - must be interdicted and destroyed. Fighting with one hand tied behind your back, while your opponent fights you with both fists, and kicks you with everything he has, is a fight you will lose. The Russians are using unrestricted warfare, and the response must be without restriction. The point is to stop the threat, and make the projection of force too expensive to continue.
Ukraine depends heavily on world opinion, which is swinging this direction. In the meantime Sumy and Chernigov will absorb artillery, all of Ukraine cruise missiles.
Kremenchuk is on the Dnieper a couple of hundred miles south of Kyiv. Except for Russian rockets, life goes on as normal. It has to. I lived in wartime Danang and Saigon. We got rocketed occasionally, but you simply cannot live your life in fear.
If the Ukrainian defense forces limit themselves to operating on Ukrainian territory, then they've lost, because the Russians are firing at them from Russia and Belarus and essentially international airspace and international waters. Bombers firing cruise missiles must simply be shot down, artillery firing from the RF and Belarus must be taken out, troops running "exercises" in Belarus - and their supply dumps - must be interdicted and destroyed. Fighting with one hand tied behind your back, while your opponent fights you with both fists, and kicks you with everything he has, is a fight you will lose. The Russians are using unrestricted warfare, and the response must be without restriction. The point is to stop the threat, and make the projection of force too expensive to continue.
Ukraine depends heavily on world opinion, which is swinging this direction. In the meantime Sumy and Chernigov will absorb artillery, all of Ukraine cruise missiles.
Why are there a 1,000 people shopping in a mall when the country is in a War. It's all absurd to me.
Also, thank you for your substack, I read it everyday.
Kremenchuk is on the Dnieper a couple of hundred miles south of Kyiv. Except for Russian rockets, life goes on as normal. It has to. I lived in wartime Danang and Saigon. We got rocketed occasionally, but you simply cannot live your life in fear.