I don't think the American public, even most of the policy wonks which dominate the major media, appreciate what Spokesperson for the National Security Council John Kirby has just publicly broached about Ukraine aid coming "to the end of the rope." Professor Mearsheimer clearly did grasp it, and it made him sick to his stomach in hearing the announcement...which was hardly a formal one and in the spirit of "oh, by the way..." if I wanted to be very crude in my translation of Kirby-officialdom speak, what he meant was "Ukraine had its chance, couldn't make it to the Sea of Asov despite all our aid, majestic aid (everything but what it really needed militarily to breach 20 km of russian defenses) ...and now with the situation in the Middle East, and no sympathetic House Speaker (and probably a betrayal behind the scenes by Mitch McConnell to help with the McCarthy brokered avoidance of the shutdown) the end of the aid is in sight. This is astounding in its cruelty and crudeness. What, no manners any more in Washington? I thought the Beltway was polite, awash in K Street etiquette...
And it reinforces my point in the last post blasting the Democrats negotiating skills to have been outmaneuvered on aid to Ukraine with only vague promises to restore it...in a situation they don't control and now facing the deep trouble of "clients" who have a higher standing than Ukraine, despite all our half-way teasing overtures to them over the past decade or so...longer actually.
I wanted to place a final picture near the end of the essay, of Meriupol's erasure to rubble to match the footage on the fate of Gaza, but Google's Chrome was not co-operating with my attempts.
I don't think the American public, even most of the policy wonks which dominate the major media, appreciate what Spokesperson for the National Security Council John Kirby has just publicly broached about Ukraine aid coming "to the end of the rope." Professor Mearsheimer clearly did grasp it, and it made him sick to his stomach in hearing the announcement...which was hardly a formal one and in the spirit of "oh, by the way..." if I wanted to be very crude in my translation of Kirby-officialdom speak, what he meant was "Ukraine had its chance, couldn't make it to the Sea of Asov despite all our aid, majestic aid (everything but what it really needed militarily to breach 20 km of russian defenses) ...and now with the situation in the Middle East, and no sympathetic House Speaker (and probably a betrayal behind the scenes by Mitch McConnell to help with the McCarthy brokered avoidance of the shutdown) the end of the aid is in sight. This is astounding in its cruelty and crudeness. What, no manners any more in Washington? I thought the Beltway was polite, awash in K Street etiquette...
And it reinforces my point in the last post blasting the Democrats negotiating skills to have been outmaneuvered on aid to Ukraine with only vague promises to restore it...in a situation they don't control and now facing the deep trouble of "clients" who have a higher standing than Ukraine, despite all our half-way teasing overtures to them over the past decade or so...longer actually.
I wanted to place a final picture near the end of the essay, of Meriupol's erasure to rubble to match the footage on the fate of Gaza, but Google's Chrome was not co-operating with my attempts.