I'm tired of this argument being put as some sort of test of bravery or decency. People arguing for restraint and caution aren't arguing for surrender. They're arguing for restraint and caution, especially now that strategic victory is already out of Putin's reach. /2
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 21, 2022
To which I would add this:I understand the urge to saddle up NATO and blast the Russia invaders to hell. But if the argument is "don't be afraid of Putin," it's a stupid argument. There are plenty of risks involved here that have nothing to do with Putin and everything to do with risks in wartime. /4x
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 21, 2022
"Analysts and commentators have grudgingly declared that the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been blocked, and that the war is stalemated. The more likely truth is that the Ukrainians are winning," @EliotACohen writes:https://t.co/hhGjic7hPA
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) March 21, 2022
The Ukrainians are doing their part. Now is the time to arm them on the scale and with the urgency needed, as in some cases we are already doing. We must throttle the Russian economy, increasing pressure on a Russian elite that does not, by and large, buy into Vladimir Putin’s bizarre ideology of “passionarity” and paranoid Great Russian nationalism. We must mobilize official and unofficial agencies to penetrate the information cocoon in which Putin’s government is attempting to insulate the Russian people from the news that thousands of their young men will come home maimed, or in coffins, or not at all from a stupid and badly fought war of aggression against a nation that will now hate them forever. We should begin making arrangements for war-crimes trials, and begin naming defendants, as we should have done during World War II. Above all, we must announce that there will be a Marshall Plan to rebuild the Ukrainian economy, for nothing will boost their confidence like the knowledge that we believe in their victory and intend to help create a future worth having for a people willing to fight so resolutely for its freedom.
This situation could be so much worse if we still had a President who governed as if Twitter really mattered. It’s a very, very good thing we don’t.“The only tank manufacturer in Russia has stopped working
— OSINT UK (@jon96179496) March 21, 2022
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that Uralvagonzavod has stopped its work due to a lack of foreign-made components.
It is the only Russian company that carries out assembly series of tanks.” https://t.co/rC7vxRJDfF
They have certainly proved they are more than ready to become a member of NATO, able to defend themselves, dedicated to democratic rule. I hope that they and a, in my strongest wishes, other countries bordering Putin's dictatorship decide for democracy, now. Hell, in my wildest dreams I wish that for the United States and even Britain, if it can manage to stay together.
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