The course of the war to date and especially the employment of the HIMARS system has already disproven that canard. One is the specious argument that it will take too much time to train Ukrainian pilots and ground crews in the use and management of these platforms. Similar plans were discussed earlier and rejected.īut today there are only two arguments against providing these weapons. The USAF is already considering transferring retired F-15, F-16, and A-10 planes and drones to Ukraine, along with pilot training although no decision has been made. This means giving Ukraine airplanes and strike weapons like the Army Tactical Missile Systems ( ATACMS ) with a range of 300km (186 miles) that could strike not just Russian-occupied territory but Russia proper. One set of these tools is the air power to strike at Russian naval and ground platforms so as to bring the war home to them, making clear that they cannot continue to strike Ukrainian targets at will and with impunity. And if NATO is unwilling to do so, it should give Ukraine the tools to do the job. Part of that defeat will also entail breaking the blockade of the Black Sea.
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Moreover, Russia, the genocidal power, cannot, therefore, be allowed to prevail and must be decisively defeated. If a negotiated settlement to a genocidal war remains inconceivable, this war can only be brought to a conclusion through a clash of arms. Since those weapons could break the blockade, Russia, by its recent attacks aims to diminish Ukraine’s stock to preserve both its monopoly in the Black Sea and its illegal blockade of Ukraine in those waters. Third, at the same time, it has convinced itself - without evidence - that Harpoon anti-ship missiles are stored in or near Odessa. Second, the Kremlin remains determined to block Ukrainian grain exports while evading sanctions on its own grain shipments, including stolen Ukrainian grain.
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genocide, as defined in the original United Nations resolution of 1948. Indeed, Russia’s objectives and behavior, exhibited in word and deed, aim at the complete destruction of Ukraine as a state and society, i.e.
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The ongoing missile and air strikes against Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa, fitting as it does into the overall pattern of malignant Russian behavior in Ukraine, should teach observers, especially those still clamoring for a negotiated settlement, some harsh but necessary lessons.įirst, it should remind us that the Kremlin does not keep its agreements with Ukraine, or anyone else and that therefore a negotiated end to this war is inconceivable. Russia openly states it is fighting a war against the West that means the Kremlin must be beaten on Ukraine’s battlefields using advanced armaments.