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Day 760 - Mar. 24 - Sevastopol hit again, Russia isn't so used to punch back, Sure all those NATO flight hours are benign
Hi guys! We are in a proper Ukraine vs. Russia slugging match right now. For those of you who have been reading these reviews for a while, this means that the really most important development IMO is the basic fact that the good guys are trading blows with the bad guys on pretty much an equal basis.open.substack.com
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As another aside, remember how the Americans and the Germans were all strategic and clever and were going to keep the war under control and remove pretexts for the Kremlin to escalate, by never delivering long-range strike weapons to Ukraine? Well, it seems about 100 percent sure that these long-range attacks are all by Ukraine-manufactured drones, and of course the Ukrainians don’t have to ask anyone to launch those. This is a textbook example of “Beltway Navel Gazing”, i.e., the tendency of strategic decision-makers in the government institutions of a big powerful country, lacking the imagination to conceive that the foreign state whose actions the big country wants to dictate, is unlikely to just bow down, and much more likely alternate ways to advance its policies.
This is what you get when you have bureaucracies full of well-paid “experts” that spend a whole lot of their time telling each other how great their institutions are. But I digress.
Both Ukraine and Israel have very different imperatives governing their actions than trying to get re-elected.