Lindsey Graham blows the trumpet for Ukraine

Sanator Lindsey Graham is a canny politician and knows what's what. So when he came back from another trip to Kyiv and claimed the Ukrainian counter-offensive, the one that has been imminent for weeks, is going to deliver a soccer punch to the Russians, you know he has had a good session with Zelensky and co and what he has been told sounds pretty impressive. The Russians have been waiting for the big blow to land and have been building defences like they were in World War One or Two. Which means the Ukrainians will need American-style obsstruction-busting bombs and heavy armoured vehicles. Do they have what they need? They seem confident that they do, judging by Graham's hints and indications. Let's hope so, because if this war is ever going to end or at least stop with some sort of reasonable arrangement, then the anticipated big blow will have to be so effective that the Russian defences will crumble. I'm not sure even with all the weapons provided by the West that Ukraine has sufficient firepower on land and in the air to overwhelm the Russian positions in the east and south. They don't have the F-16s yet so in the air they will have to continue to rely on old Soviet aircraft which are good but not superior to what the Russians have, and the Russians hav a helluva lot more combat aircraft available, about 1,000. Good luck to the Ukrainians but I don't think the Russians are done yet.