12 February 2025

Day 1084 War in Ukaaine

The MIA claims he committed petty hooliganism and disobeyed police orders.

Trump shows, as usual, complete obliviousness as to what the war in Ukraine is all about. He has no idea what the war is about and has no idea how to negotiate an end tp it.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth demonstrates that he has no idea of how to negotiate a deal. He surrenders all of his bargaining chip right off the bat.

Hegseth’s statement the the US does not wish to be “the primary guarantor of security in Europe,” reminds me of Secretary of State Dean Acheso leaving South Korea out of the US defense perimeter in the Pacific (North Korea was going to invade South Korea anyway, but it was certainly conventional wisdom there that Acheson invited the invasion https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/jcs/article/view/366/578 ). Don’t think that’s a good idea at all.

Europe responds that it is ready to support Ukraine without US help.

Problem for Trump is that Ukrainians have agency and are not going to accept instructions from him.

Afga Sadigov of Georgia has been on hunger strike since February 2nd.

Britain developed an air defense system sort of like the US Patriot and the Russian Buk systems. It’s cheaper an uses missiles that Ukraine has huge stocks of.

Britain an Latvia send more weapons.

A celebration of the many religions and ethnicities that are defending Ukraine.

More than a dozen building-shaking explosions just rocked the Ukrainian capital.”

Russians knew full well that a boarding school did not have any military targets. They bombed it anyway.

https://balloon-juice.com/2025/02/12/war-for-ukraine-day-1084-the-new-us-policy-is-ukraine-without-ukraine/


 

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