Sunday, July 02, 2023

Ukraine is not making much progress

The Russians are brilliantly dug in in defensive positions and the Bidens are putting pressure on Kyiv to show significant advancement by a few weeks. The Ukrainians are "pissed off" at the lack of delivery of game-changing Western hardware. For reasons unknown Volo et al have been wary of Biden since before the war began--despite U.S. repeated, lead-pipe guarantees that Rus was about to attack. "Nah," was the response from Kyiv. If Zelensky doesn't understand that the West and the U.S. would rather like to avoid nuclear obliteration of Western Europe and an attack on the States, it doesn't seem we can do anything sixteen months into the war that can make him see this. Zelensky needs be mindful that he doesn’t look handsome when he opens his mouth so wide and so frequently and instead have a close encounter with success on the ground.  Biden has shown the patience of Jo(b) with this guy. Zelensky needs to show much more progress in evicting the Russians from territory they captured early in the war. It's time for Zelensky to put up or shut the fuck up.