Is it time for the endgame in the Ukraine-Russia War? From Paul Craig Roberts at paulcraigroberts.org:
US Col. Douglas McGregor agrees with me that the conflict in Ukraine must be brought to a close or it will lead to a wider and more dangerous war. As Russophobic neoconservatives control US foreign policy, they can and will block any Western effort to end the conflict. For this reason, it is up to Putin to assemble the necessary force to quickly crush Ukraine and bring the conflict to an end. https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/08/no_author/alarming-assessment-of-u-s-military-decline-and-ukraine-war-dangers-col-douglas-mcgregor/
The question I have been raising since the beginning of the conflict is why did the Kremlin fail to recognize that it is the slow pace of the special operation that is producing ever more serious provocations that are likely to end in nuclear war. I continue to raise this question because, like John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, I understand that no goal, no agenda, no ideology, no principle can justify a nuclear war. Many of the West’s provocations have crossed declared red lines with no response from Putin other than words, and it is the worsening provocations that eventually will go too far and produce a wider war, which would bring nuclear weapons into the conflict.
My concern is that the risks of escalation exceed the benefits, as Putin sees them, of a slow and ongoing conflict instead of a rapid defeat of Ukraine.
He has a minor in international law and is a little too diplomatic, wartime means politics by other means and diplomacy is no longer useful.
Putin said he had nothing to do with Prigozhin crash and Medvedev will understand how to do WAR.
As for the former USA, vital military parts hecho en China with backdoors and a diverse equitable supply chain, no go showboat carrier queen planes, this won’t end well.