Tag: kursk
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[Sharing] Germany’s far-left disrupter claims credit for limiting aid to Ukraine – Guy Chazan, Financial Times
Sahra Wagenknecht’s party rises in polls ahead of regional elections in eastern German states Sahra Wagenknecht, Germany’s most prominent far-left politician, has taken credit for the government’s decision to limit military aid to Kyiv, saying her strong opposition to arming Ukraine was influencing Berlin’s policy on the war. In an interview with the Financial Times,…
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[Sharing] The Cost of Kursk – Ted Snider, The Libertarian Institute
The bold and surprising incursion across the border into the Kursk region of Russia has won Ukraine the temporary possession of several Russian villages and a few hundred square miles of Russian territory. But the strategically cheap Russian land may have been bought at a very costly price. The Ukrainian armed forces managed a lightning…
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[Sharing] Unable to escalate militarily, NATO relies on rhetoric – Lucas Leiroz, Strategic Culture Foundation
Recent discussions about “authorizing” attacks on Russia sounds like desperation on the part of Western countries Continuing their relentless wave of escalations in the war against the Russian Federation, NATO countries have decided to deliberate on whether to “authorize” Ukrainian attacks against what they consider “Russian territory” — the 1991 Russian borders, excluding the New…
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[Sharing] Russo-Ukrainian war: The Deluge – Big Serge
Z World Turns Two As the calendar barrels into another year and we tick away the days of February, notable anniversaries are marked off in sequence. It is now 2/22/2022 +2: two years since Putin’s address on the historic status of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, followed on 2/24/2022 by the commencement of the Special…
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[Sharing] Escaping Attrition: Ukraine Rolls the Dice – Big Serge
The Zaporizhia Summer Blockbuster It has been a while since I published anything long-form commenting on the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War, and I confess that writing this article gave me a modicum of trouble. Ukraine’s much anticipated grand summer counteroffensive has now been underway for about eighty days with little to show for it. The summer…
