Nothing I Say Here Should Ever Be Confused With As Cheerleading for Russia
I’m just saying there are good reasons to think we’re foolish to believe that we have the power to defeat the Russians, much less control them.
For more than a year, I’ve been following the war in Ukraine. For 15 months, I’ve looked at the war from many angles, through a few different lenses. I’ve said what I absolutely believed about the war. I believe the war is folly, on both sides, but mostly, on the West for thinking they could even use Ukraine as a proxy for a war with Russia. Here is the nugget of everything that I have ever said about the war:
The force required to stop Russia from continuing it’s Special Military Operation, or invasion, doesn’t exist.
For more than a year now, Russia has conducted military operations in Ukraine without corresponding opposition. The battle of Bakhmut should give us pause to consider what we’re willing to pay for a victory in Ukraine.
The Big Serge on Substack has been tracking the war and the history before the war. In his article, The Battle of Bakhmut: Postmortem, published on June 2nd, Serge gives us a detailed analysis of the action in a city that recently fell to the Russians.
