Ukraine

I tend to keep my personal political leanings, well, personal. Not even my close friends know how I vote. When politics arises in conversation, I change the conversation. If I can’t, I nod politely while retreating to my mental library to read a good book. People sometimes think they know……

Holding the line will become a struggle for Putin’s Army — In theory, it was the greatest mismatch of the century. The world’s second most powerful army housing 146 million inhabitants on the world’s largest landmass, facing up against a much smaller enemy. Russia had the army, the population and the money. Nobody had any reason to support Ukraine. And yet…

As expected, Russia’s so-called Spring Offensive is set to begin well before the end of winter. In fact, Ukraine’s intelligence service suspects the next Russian assault is starting within ten days. It has been grimly amusing to watch most of the big-name experts, including those at the disingenuous ISW, cleanly…

Moscow’s murderous strategy is to overwhelm Ukrainian defenders — Stacked like cords of wood, dead and decaying Russian soldiers are cluttering up the battlefield around Bakhmut. Months ago, these boys and men were going peacefully about life in Russian towns and cities, today their purpose is to catch enough bullets being fired by Ukrainian defenders to distract them long…

I Twit, Spout, Signal, Post and Link…so you don’t have to! A collection of topics regarding Ukraine that have come up over the last week. My writing has taken a bit of a hit during my trip to Ukraine, which was super productive and enlightening. Ukrainians are amazing folk, and…

Russia has been expending massive amounts of manpower to capture some relatively minor urban areas in Ukraine, which aren’t really even urban areas anymore — they are just wastelands. Fighting in these areas has been intense ever since the end of the Ukrainian Kharkiv offensive, as they lay along rail…