The author of WAR 101 answers your questions. This week: The Ukraine Lend-Lease Act. The FD 2030 controversy. How does an insurgency get started? And more about logistics, logistics, and logistics.
Has the West already been defeated in Ukraine? It all depends on how you define victory and defeat and on the time frame you’re utilizing for your analysis. This essay from Asia Times suggests a very bleak outcome for the United States and Europe. Discerning commentators need to ask whether it’s all worth it if it leads to the death of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency.
Charles Kupchan in the New York Times. Well worth a look.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/11/opinion/ukraine-war-realist-strategy.html
Has the West already been defeated in Ukraine? It all depends on how you define victory and defeat and on the time frame you’re utilizing for your analysis. This essay from Asia Times suggests a very bleak outcome for the United States and Europe. Discerning commentators need to ask whether it’s all worth it if it leads to the death of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency.
See,
https://asiatimes.com/2022/04/doing-without-the-dollar/