To stem the tide of Russian meat pushed into assaults by Moscow, Ukraine has proven that the only way to check the Tsar's plans for eternal expansion, is to defeat him in the deep rear, an area he believes to be safe.
Just got done watching this discussion between Wajahat Ali and Prof. Robert Pape of the University of Chicago talking about Pape's theory of the Escalation Trap that Trump is in in the Middle East, and wonder if this can be applied to thinking about the war on Ukraine and Russia's role, because let us face it, Putin is doing the same thing, and now Trump is funding his war too.
It says a lot about how countries should be thinking of war. There are lessons to be learned from Ukraine and from Iran, and apparently people like Putin and Trump learned nothing from Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq. If we are to follow their wisdom, Ukraine needs support putting inescapable economic pressure on Russia. I would say, pressure that cuts off his supplies of everything that Russia cannot produce themselves that they need. So, Europe should be assisting with economic pressures on Russia, and one way they can do this is make more effort to get off of fossil fuels. That means campaigns where people reduce their dependence on them in order to help out. Are people today too selfish to make sacrifices to get off of them?
Thanks for this article. It would be interesting to see if you would do a country by country assessment of long range and deep strike development projects in Europe, and perhaps Canada too.
Thank you very much mr. Hoffmann! Although one could argue about France being the lead missile developers in Europe. For me, it would be Ukraine right now.
Arent, I would agree with them developing the most drones in Europe, but I don't know if they are developing other types of missiles. Martin Belderson, who used to report on what Ukraine was doing with weaponry and military strategies weekly has been out of commission since last fall, and he just reported recently that he has family issues to deal with that have kept him from reporting but he hopes to be back in the future.
What I am really curious about and what is maybe for one of your next articles is the question, why there is such a lack of cooperation in Europe in both development, production and procurement of weapon systems (not just missiles).
I mean why not just buy eg. tanks from Germany, fighter jets from France, artillery from Poland, munitions from the Czech Republic and so forth.
It is mind-boggling to me that everyone tries to do things themselves as if it was 1937.
It drives me crazy every time I hear the phrase "escalate to de-escalate". It's a play on words that actually is nonsensical. On a different note. The French involving one of their car manufacturers (Renault) sounds very similar to what the Pentagon is doing with their outreach to Ford and GM here in the US. I guess the Pentagon has finally realized that their collection of "exquisite" weapons is just another way of saying most of their weapons procured are over budget and past due. Using million-dollar missiles to take out thousand-dollar drones has always been STUPID.
To stem the tide of Russian meat pushed into assaults by Moscow, Ukraine has proven that the only way to check the Tsar's plans for eternal expansion, is to defeat him in the deep rear, an area he believes to be safe.
Just got done watching this discussion between Wajahat Ali and Prof. Robert Pape of the University of Chicago talking about Pape's theory of the Escalation Trap that Trump is in in the Middle East, and wonder if this can be applied to thinking about the war on Ukraine and Russia's role, because let us face it, Putin is doing the same thing, and now Trump is funding his war too.
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/trump-escalates-the-iran-war-crisis?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
It says a lot about how countries should be thinking of war. There are lessons to be learned from Ukraine and from Iran, and apparently people like Putin and Trump learned nothing from Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq. If we are to follow their wisdom, Ukraine needs support putting inescapable economic pressure on Russia. I would say, pressure that cuts off his supplies of everything that Russia cannot produce themselves that they need. So, Europe should be assisting with economic pressures on Russia, and one way they can do this is make more effort to get off of fossil fuels. That means campaigns where people reduce their dependence on them in order to help out. Are people today too selfish to make sacrifices to get off of them?
It’s still mind-boggling how slow Europe is in producing missiles and drones.
Hypothetically, what would Europe do if Putin attacked a munitions factory in Finland with drones?
Thanks for this article. It would be interesting to see if you would do a country by country assessment of long range and deep strike development projects in Europe, and perhaps Canada too.
Thank you for yet another great piece. It remains to be seen how Germany's deepening co-operation with Ukraine will bear fruit in this field.
Thank you very much mr. Hoffmann! Although one could argue about France being the lead missile developers in Europe. For me, it would be Ukraine right now.
Arent, I would agree with them developing the most drones in Europe, but I don't know if they are developing other types of missiles. Martin Belderson, who used to report on what Ukraine was doing with weaponry and military strategies weekly has been out of commission since last fall, and he just reported recently that he has family issues to deal with that have kept him from reporting but he hopes to be back in the future.
https://underreported.substack.com/
What I am really curious about and what is maybe for one of your next articles is the question, why there is such a lack of cooperation in Europe in both development, production and procurement of weapon systems (not just missiles).
I mean why not just buy eg. tanks from Germany, fighter jets from France, artillery from Poland, munitions from the Czech Republic and so forth.
It is mind-boggling to me that everyone tries to do things themselves as if it was 1937.
It drives me crazy every time I hear the phrase "escalate to de-escalate". It's a play on words that actually is nonsensical. On a different note. The French involving one of their car manufacturers (Renault) sounds very similar to what the Pentagon is doing with their outreach to Ford and GM here in the US. I guess the Pentagon has finally realized that their collection of "exquisite" weapons is just another way of saying most of their weapons procured are over budget and past due. Using million-dollar missiles to take out thousand-dollar drones has always been STUPID.
Does this menu of development projects distinguish itself from projects of Germany and Poland in that it does partner with Ukraine? If so, why not?
Correction: "does partner" --> "does not partner"
is france carrying too many eggs in its basket