Timothy Snyder argues that ‘dropping five more queens on the board’ would allow Ukraine to prevail
The title is a bit misleading. Tim doesn’t seem to provide a solution here, he is making an argument against the semantics of calling it a stalemate, which I agree with. This war is not a boardgame.
The issue is that at this point there is nothing that Ukraine has asked for that they havent received. It is a tough war and rooting out the Russian invaders will not be simple. We saw Russia trying to puncture the front in hopes od a breakthrough in advivka and they failed miserably with tremendous human and material loss. If Ukraine were to try a similar offensive it wouldnt be much different for them. Other than turning over our entire military I don’t know how allies can provide an asymmetric advantage that would allow them to plow the Russians back. More anti-air? More missiles? Aircraft? More drones? It’d be awesome if we can somehow help them gain air superiority.
The issue is that at this point there is nothing that Ukraine has asked for that they havent received.
F-16s have yet to arrive, and while Ukraine has received every kind of thing they’ve requested, they’ve certainly not received the necessary numbers for it. A teaspoon of sugar doesn’t do much in a recipe for cake.
And they always arrived too late to make a breakthrough, according to an interview by the Economist.
A teaspoon of sugar doesn’t do much in a recipe for cake.
It do be makin’ the medicine go down tho…
No shit Sherlock. Not been to Yale or studied history, but as an amateur armchair general, I came to the same conclusion some time ago.
