Jay in Kyiv
As battlefield losses mount, the Kremlin reaches for old tricks—sending three MiG-31 fighters into Estonian airspace in a bid to intimidate NATO. Ukraine’s counter-offensive has already liberated 160 square kilometers in Donetsk, and Putin’s war is devouring the Russian economy from within.
All those dear people!
Murdered by putrid nazi vermin!
We can only imagine the pain of their loved ones.
In the middle of the pain must be a burning sense of injustice, betrayal and an understandable desire to inflict the same pain that they suffered on the fiends that inflicted it.
No western politician, not even the staunchest supporters of Ukraine, have even attempted to describe Ukraine’s agony or more importantly, set out a clear vision to defeat these fiends and avenge the victims.
Who is to blame?
Boris and Biden : they could, as Budapest signatories, have sent three or four divisions and imposed the NFZ in late 2021. But they did nothing.
Boris woke up in Jan 2022 and sent 2000 NLAWS. Without them, Kyiv might have fallen.
The main villain has to be Bill Clinton. His Memorandum was a gigantic fake.
Even John Major was fooled. His contemporaneous notes confirm that he thought he was providing a nuclear umbrella for Ukraine.
Then we have Dubya, who let down Georgia terribly, Obama; who has turned out to be a borderline tankie and now we have Trump, God help us.