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Ukraine is still in the fight over eighteen months after an invasion that was planned to topple Kyiv in three days. I would say the Ukrainians probably deserve
by philwelch 3y ago
Ukraine is still in the fight over eighteen months after an invasion that was planned to topple Kyiv in three days. I would say the Ukrainians probably deserve more credit than the United States for this outcome, but if you asked anyone in the winter of 2021/2022 to predict the outcome of a full scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine is doing much better than one would have reasonably expected.
- chrisco255 3y agoIt was never planned for 3 days. That's just another fake sound bite. The war was brewing since 2014 and everyone in U.S. government knew it and everyone in Russia knew it. Here's the late Senator McCain 9 years ago in Kiev: https://youtu.be/93eyhO8VTdg?si=5oIEG-V3BXLhAywd https://youtu.be/93eyhO8VTdg?si=5oIEG-V3BXLhAywd Here's him and Lindsey Graham again 8 years ago talking about arming and training Ukrainians: https://www.youtube.com/live/AnvF_EzYQ8Q?si=qRMch8mQR5AIPi6m https://www.youtube.com/live/AnvF_EzYQ8Q?si=qRMch8mQR5AIPi6m
- youngtilted 3y agoHere's a surprisingly nuanced perspective at the State Department in 2008: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08MOSCOW265_a.html#efmBTnBfi https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08MOSCOW265_a.html#efmBTn...
- philwelch 3y ago> The war was brewing since 2014 and everyone in U.S. government knew it and everyone in Russia knew it. The war arguably started in 2014. 2022 was when Russia went all in on regime change, a goal they have failed to achieve for over a year and a half now.