One thing that is very interesting about the war for Ukraine is that Russia often "retaliates" against Ukraine when Ukraine advances, gets new weapons systems, and the like. Now as a (very) amateur historian, it seems to me that Russia is telling us a lot about their objectives and motivations. In an ordinary war, the parties relentlessly move to achieve strategic goals--we didn't wait for Hitler to make a shipment of Tiger tanks, for example, before we bombed his ball bearing plants. We bombed the ball bearing plants so shipments of Tiger tanks and such would never arrive.
But Russia does, and it tells us that their goal is to get what they can by bullying, committing a lot of war crimes in the process. Our response therefore ought to be to grant Ukraine the ability to give them a real war. They'll back down soon enough, and hopefully giving Russia and Belarus the ability to do what Ukraine has started to do; eliminate the power of the old KGB/FSB. Hopefully soon, Benito Putina will have his own "Lake Como" moment.
Putin delenda est!
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