As with all wars, the battle over Ukraine continues to intensify.
it was reported This week it was announced that the total number of North Korean soldiers participating in the conflict so far is 10,000, and that Russia has rewarded North Korea by sending superior air defense systems to the peninsula in return. did.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby warned last month that North Korean troops fighting in the conflict would be a “fair fight and a fair target.”
He was given the go-ahead this week after “a senior North Korean military official said… [became] According to some, “casualties” wall street journal Thursday's story. The attack was believed to have been carried out by a British Storm Shadow missile.
These recent events alone will draw the United States, United Kingdom, North Korea, South Korea, and China further into the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
But this week's biggest news in Ukraine has upset many Americans. The Biden administration has authorized Ukraine to use the US-made Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) to attack targets inside Russia.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy: “The missiles will speak for themselves'' he boasted.
I'm sure you will. First of all, the US doesn't have many $1.3 million missiles to fly around. Admiral Samuel Paparo, Commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command warned the audience He told the Brookings Institution this week that conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine are “now eating away at stock prices…It would be disingenuous to say otherwise.”
I met with Admiral Paparo and received an explanation. He is one of the most positive and outspoken flag officers in our military. If he is publicly sounding the alarm, U.S. policy leaders should take heed.
President Putin did not take the ATACMS news well. In response, he announced It was careful to point out that a hypersonic ballistic missile was used on Thursday, but it did not carry a nuclear warhead. Implicit: Maybe next time.
What is the purpose of Biden's escalation? The White House appears to be trying to prevent the inevitable, or to blame President Trump for Ukraine's near-term defeat.
What they don't admit is that the indicators of war are not, and frankly never have been, in Ukraine's favor. Supersonic missiles cannot change the same. Russia has five times the population of Ukraine and has an advantage when it comes to munitions. Despite Biden's efforts to stifle Russia's economy, Putin's military industry 3 times more than Western countries Basic ammunition necessary for conducting land battles.
But aren't Russians dying in large numbers on the battlefield?
Western leaders continue to tout Russia's high death toll. estimate It is currently at 600,000th place. For military strategists here in the United States, such a human cost is unimaginable. Even if you add up Union combat deaths in the Gulf War, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Korea, World War II, World War I, and the Civil War going back 160 years, the numbers would still not add up to Russia's numbers. It won't arrive. What has been lost in the last 1,000 days.
American and NATO leaders would be foolish to underestimate Russia's resolve.
Although the 2022 invasion of Ukraine was an initial mistake and omission, Russia has since recovered from its mistakes and gained support for the war from the Russian people. stay highand the Russian economy has not collapsed. Putin may have lost the battle of virtue-signaling Ukrainian flag lapel pins, but he is certainly on his way to winning the war.
Sabrina Singh, Biden's deputy press secretary at the Pentagon, said: don't worry. On Thursday, she told reporters that “in the remaining weeks and months of this administration, the administration is sending as much U.S. arms and assistance to Ukraine as possible.” So that's what we're really focused on. ”
What did she think about Putin's nuclear threat? “I mean, we've seen this kind of dangerous, reckless statement from Putin before,” Singh said.
“I mean, you know what?” No, I don't know. The world has not experienced a nuclear threat like this since Harry S. Truman. requested Japan surrenders.
For those concerned about the state of national security, January 20th can't come soon enough.
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