Thursday 29 December 2022

The war in Ukraine is now totally one-sided

All the experts say the war in Ukraine is now stalemated and bogged down. But it simply isn't true. The war in Ukraine is now so one-sided all the Ukrainian military and civilians can do is stay bunkered down and accept the punishment because Putin is taking the easy option and launching long-range ballistic and cruise missiles by air and from the Black Sea and Iran-supplied drones. Putin knows that there is little Ukraine can do by way of retaliation other than try and shoot down the missiles and drones. Ukraine does not possess long-range ballistic and cruise missiles to do the same to Russia. So Putin can sit back in his Kremlin office and watch the videos of his missile operators sending dozens of long-range systems into Ukraine to make life unbearable. It's the coward's option and Putin has taken it with glee. If ever there was a case for giving Ukraine long-range weapons to hit back at Russia and Russian-occupied Crimea this is the time. The world cannot allow Putin to just destroy Ukrainian cities at will because this is what he is doing. His troops are making no progress on the ground and are waiting for the winter months to be over. So provided he doesn't run out of stocks, Putin will continue to hammer Ukraine with his rockets and missiles from a safe distance. Would he reconsider if Ukraine started to launch long-range missiles at Russian cities? I don't think the US would ever allow this for fear of provoking a Third World War but it's possibly the only sort of retaliation which might force the Kremlin chief to call a halt to his destruction of Ukraine. At present all the Kyiv government can do is continue launching secret special forces and drone attacks on Russian military bases a few hundred miles across the border. But Putin so far doesn't seem to worry too much about that. So unless there is a change of mind in Washington over long-range weapons for Ukraine, this poor devastated country will continue to be blasted to bits by Putin from the safety of his swivel chair in the Kremlin. Never mind the statemate, this is slaughter at the push of a button.

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