Excellent article, the only thing I can add is the longer the war goes on the harder it will be for Ukraine who's economy is currently at a complete stand still.Ukraine isn't ready for its big offensive, but it has no choice
Quite a good article in the Times if @Lé Ddanno or @Which Tyler can unlock from the paywall? or use up 1 article free per month.
That's at least 30% of its mobilised manpower. That doesn't leave many more to man the rest of the front lineUkraine war: More than 20,000 Russian troops killed since December, US says
Another 80,000 Russian soldiers have been wounded in fighting since December, the White House estimates.www.bbc.co.uk
Hard to tell whether any successor if he is assassinated would feel compelled to continue the war / escalate it to "avenge" Putin and appear tough or would aim to just make noise but behind the scenes start reining it in.
TBH he has said that before and not done it.Yevgeny Prigozhin: Wagner Group boss says he will pull fighters out of Bakhmut
Yevgeny Prigozhin poses among dead mercenaries, blaming defence officials for lack of ammunition.www.bbc.com
Good news.
He's becoming a bit too powerful for that...
Not sure what else NATO/west could have done. In 2011 there was Afghanistan, Iraq. We were all still coming out if the global financial crisis and much of Europe was still getting high on Russian Gas (Germany, Italy) or Russian money (UK) plus Ukraine was almost lawless and corruption among its military was shocking.We knew in 2011 Putin would attack Ukraine, says Bill Clinton
Revelation raises questions about whether US and Europe should have been more prepared for 2014 invasionwww.theguardian.com
There wasn't. Easy for Clinton to say and make himself relevant.
