After many of their T-72 tanks were destroyed in the fighting, Russia is even dusting off old T-62s of 1960s vintage. While no longer top-of-the-line systems, these are better than anything that Ukraine or Russia is using. But the country has vast stocks of older M1 Abrams tanks and M109 self-propelled artillery systems sitting in depots as they are replaced with newer models. has begun a Lend-Lease program similar to the model used in World War II. did in the First Gulf War, provides a huge advantage over an enemy that is still using flares and star clusters to illuminate the battlefield. tried to limit the sharing of night-vision technology for years, plenty of off-the-shelf technologies have reached the Ukrainians. This is an area that can be a game changer for Ukraine. And they’ve been gradually increasing the numbers available to their forces. Ukrainian troops were calling for more night-vision devices during the 2014 fighting with separatists in Eastern Ukraine. This is one area where Ukraine has an advantage. But even some photos purported to be of special operations troops didn’t show any evidence of night-vision capabilities. Only Special Operations units (Spetsnaz) are issued night-vision systems. The Russian military doesn’t issue night-vision devices to dismounted conventional forces. Night Vision Systems: One of the more startling images from the first five months of the war has been the near-total lack of night-vision equipment used by Russian forces. It must concentrate instead on a strategy that gives Ukrainian forces the maturity needed to win and to push Russia back from the areas they’ve taken. The West has to stop worrying about upsetting Putin. Finland shares 800 miles of border with Russia. He did so even though stopping NATO expansion was specifically one of his reasons for invading Ukraine. But once they were on the path to acceptance, Putin downplayed it as if it were of little consequence. When Finland and Sweden approached NATO for membership, Putin and the Kremlin threatened severe consequences. After his forces were nearly decapitated as they tried to capture Kyiv and Kharkiv in the early days of the war, the Kremlin postured their withdrawal as a goodwill act to facilitate negotiations. If faced with an unwinnable scenario, he will back off and proclaim that everything is fine. Putin, as Kuleba says, is the master of gaslighting. Macron told the news media earlier this year that the West “ must not humiliate Russia” and should instead prepare an “exit ramp” for the country to end the war. Biden has consistently said that he doesn’t want any escalation, so he has limited the dispatch of weapons to Ukraine that can hit targets in Russia. President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron have both fallen for this. He doesn’t want to go nuclear, with the West or anyone else.
He likes to threaten and make grand announcements, but he is pragmatic above all. Putin is like a kid waving his father’s gun. The West has been duped by Russia’s threats to use nuclear weapons. Ukraine War: Ditch the “Don’t Humiliate Putin” Strategy and the West have given Ukraine plenty of body armor, small arms and ammunition, and smaller hand-held anti-armor and anti-aircraft systems such as Javelins and Stingers. Right now, Western support is enough only to induce a stalemate. But their small number of heavy artillery and missile launchers, while making their presence felt, aren’t enough to stage a convincing counteroffensive. The Ukrainians have bled the Russian military heavily in the war. This is not a condemnation, but a simple fact. News programs frequently push Ukraine far down their coverage priorities, and it will fade even further in the U.S. We don’t hear nearly enough from the U.S. The information campaigns coming from Ukraine’s foreign ministry and the U.S. He is, in other words, engaged in a campaign of genocide.”īut Ukraine’s message is not resonating well enough with the West. “He wants to eviscerate Ukrainian nationhood and wipe our people off the map, both by slaughtering us and by destroying the hallmarks of our identity. His ambitions don’t even stop at seizing control of the entire country,” Kuleba wrote. “Russian President Vladimir Putin does not simply want to take more Ukrainian territory.
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