But for want of 6 month’s worth of active and intense support from the United States this Russo-Ukrainian War would have a totally different color today. Ukrainian drones are now flying deep into Russia unmolested and tearing up valuable Russian assets. One could well imagine that a staunch well-supplied Ukrainian defense plus active offensive maneuvers on the ground would have by now gotten Russia’s war effort seriously on its back foot. But better late than never.
With US supplies now flowing into Ukraine(“we now have shells. We’ve been firing all day” said one Ukrainian artillery battery commander), one hopes that the Russian meat assaults on the ground will be slowed if not stymied, while Ukraine’s long distance air assaults go after Russia’s economic engines and war production facilities deep in the rear.
Russia sends its missiles and drones mostly at night while innocent civilians are sleeping. Ukraine says bull to all that cowardice. With their growing capacity to manufacture their own long distance drones(see link below), the Ukrainians are say “We’re coming in broad daylight and ain’t nothing you can do about it.”
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Long ago a then United States Senator, John McCain, said that Russia was a gas station with nuclear weapons. He’s been proven right. They cannot even defend their air space.
Bullies usually cave when their perceived victim socks them in the mouth. If we keep the supply lines humming and give Ukraine the necessary long-term help, including re-building their war making industrial capacity, they will fight Putin and Russia to a frazzle. And I am persuaded that Russia will cry uncle.
Slava Ukraini!