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Guest Of Honor
Volodymyr Zelensky was in Washington on Wednesday. Dmitri Medvedev was in Beijing.
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Xi has a win/win maybe.
Early on most western military strategist believed that Russia would have an easier time of it. I am amazed at the Ukrainians, and my heart goes out to them.
In Bakhmut, the Russians are the ones attacking fortified positions. Being on the defensive is traditionally good. You cede the initiative, sure, but it’s easy to defend and you do not need tons of experienced personnel and highly trained combined arms battle groups… And, traditionally, the attacker has to be willing to expand way more blood than the defenders. So let the Russians bleed themselves on a non strategic city…
And, yes, in the bigger picture, Russia’s strategic position has been infinitely weakened. Too bad strategy no longer matters – wouldn’t be nice if Russia was to pay dearly for its blunders and crimes. OTOH, I cannot quite regret we live in overall peaceful times.
Good morning, Walt. Yesterday I said (over at SA) that if there is no WWIII, the market and stocks will work themselves out.
The question of WWIII will be open for a while, I expect. But until the answer to that question is resolved (maybe sometime early next year when Putin exits from Russia to a safe location somewhere in South America), we’ll all be dangling, not just because of questions about Fed actions, but because of the open question of Russian aggression.
I’m certainly glad Biden has stepped forward and taken many actions to help, working through the lend-lease program as we did in WWII, leading the US support for Ukraine. It’s absolutely the right thing to do.
Peace talks would be a nice start for 2023 .
for my part … I keep donating to …
Razom for Ukraine
Nova Ukraine
USA for UNHCR
USA for Unicef
World Central Kitchen
International Federation for Animal Welfare
…and keep my thermostat much lower than usual in part for conservation as well as solidarity…