First: “Whatever money we are spending pales in comparison to the losses being borne by Ukrainians every single day. It is, I would submit, Ukraine who has written the West a rather large blank check. We ought to earn it.” This would be enough reason for me to keep reading your posts. But honestly, and that’s my second point: I read as much as I can about this conflict, and very rarely I come across anything that compares with the quality of your writing. The subtlety, the depth, the ability to explain a very complex issue without resorting to cliche.
It would really help if people in the West - and especially the US - would read this piece - https://tec.fsi.stanford.edu/docs/aleksandr-dugins-foundations-geopolitics. It lays out what Putin would do in the following years - it was published in 2004, 19 years ago, and you can see how Putin has followed its advice and continues to do so. And "just give Herr Hitler what he wants" and "peace in our time" didn't work out well back in the late 1930s, and are unlikely to work out well now.
First: “Whatever money we are spending pales in comparison to the losses being borne by Ukrainians every single day. It is, I would submit, Ukraine who has written the West a rather large blank check. We ought to earn it.” This would be enough reason for me to keep reading your posts. But honestly, and that’s my second point: I read as much as I can about this conflict, and very rarely I come across anything that compares with the quality of your writing. The subtlety, the depth, the ability to explain a very complex issue without resorting to cliche.
Thank you.
It would really help if people in the West - and especially the US - would read this piece - https://tec.fsi.stanford.edu/docs/aleksandr-dugins-foundations-geopolitics. It lays out what Putin would do in the following years - it was published in 2004, 19 years ago, and you can see how Putin has followed its advice and continues to do so. And "just give Herr Hitler what he wants" and "peace in our time" didn't work out well back in the late 1930s, and are unlikely to work out well now.