Saturday 23 July 2022

Putin just can't resist smashing a deal he has agreed to

Is anyone actually surprised that the day after Putin's lot agreed a grain deal with Ukraine to allow the Kyiv government to start shipping out millions of tons from the silos in Odesa down in the south, Russia fired missiles at the port?From the Kremlin's viewpoint I guess it made a sort of horrific sense. Ok, Putin would have said, let the Nazis sell their grain but bomb the hell out of them before they start to remind them that we are the boss and we can bomb them any time we want. Now every time a cargo vessel leaves Odesa with grain on board, no one will know for sure whether it will get beyond the Russian naval blockade. So much for the deal and the beam of hope. But no one should be surprised because Putin's word can never be trusted. He does what he wants and it clearly suited him to launch a couple of missiles at Odesa to remind the Ukrainians, as if they didn't know already, that he hates them and thinks they are all Nazis. It's time I think for the US to send dozens more HIMARS multiple-launch rocket systems to Kyiv so that they can blast every Russian ammunition dump and logistics depot inside Ukraine to little bits. Without ammunition and missiles and fuel the Russians will grind to a halt. That must now be Kyiv's aim with US and Nato backing. And if Russia bombs the grain cargo ships as they leave Odesa Kyiv will need to carry out more and more Moskva-style attacks until the Black Sea is filled with destroyed Russian warships.

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