What in hell then is the excuse of the Wall Street Journal (WSJ)? The WSJ just published a deranged piece by a Catholic University Professor, Michael Kimmage, titled — Ignore the Defeatists. America’s Strategy Is Working in Ukraine. I don’t think Professor Kimmage knows the meaning of the word, “working.”

Here is his thesis:

But no combination of tanks and jet fighters and missiles could itself have ended the war. And we will wait in vain for a simple victory in Ukraine. To be truly beaten, Russia and President Vladimir Putin would have to be beaten at home, a massive and massively dangerous undertaking.

And, in fact, the U.S. and other countries supporting Ukraine have embraced (but not always articulated) a clear strategy: They have applied a formidable array of military, diplomatic and economic means to the crucial goal of containing the revanchist power of Putin’s Russia. They have executed this strategy with energy and determination, to the great benefit of Ukraine, and its future prospects are bright—but only if we have the patience to stick with it.

Kimmage then presents, what he dubs, the three pillars of Western policy for Ukraine:

The strategy has three pillars. The first is to furnish Ukraine with weapons, intelligence and help with targeting. This has been an enormous initiative, comparable to the Lend-Lease program for U.S. allies in World War II and encompassing the contributions not just of the U.S., France, Britain and Germany but of dozens of other countries, from Canada to South Korea. . . .

The second pillar has been to tighten ties to Ukraine. NATO membership may be elusive, but several countries are moving toward long-term, formalized military partnerships, precisely what the U.S. and the countries of Europe refused to do between 2014 and 2022. . . .

Finally, Ukraine is entering Europe. The depredations of the conflict will make it an arduous journey. Wars do not render countries more democratic, more enlightened or more demographically secure, and Russia is doing everything it can to undermine Ukraine’s societal foundations.

But Ukraine is not giving up on Europe, and Europe can no longer afford the benign neglect it cultivated for Ukraine in the 1990s and even after the Russian invasion of 2014. Europe’s own well-being depends on its ability to integrate Ukraine. It would be a catastrophe for Europe if Ukraine became a failed state or a Russian colony the size of Texas, bordering five members of the EU and NATO.

Kimmage is right about one thing — “Ukraine is entering Europe.” No kidding!! Yes, Ukrainians, numbering millions, have entered Europe and have no intention of going back. During the last two years, Ukraine’s population has been halved — dropping from 42 million in January 2022 to an estimated 19 million today.

Of course, this is not what Kimmage meant with respect to his third pillar. He labors under the delusion that Ukraine will become a part of the European Union (EU). Ain’t going to happen. Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski, during the prank call initiated by the Russian scam artists, Vovan and Lexus, admitted that even if major issues, such as Ukraine’s enormous agricultural sector, could be overcome, Ukraine would not enter the EU for at least 10 years.

But that is not the most bizarre portion of Kimmage’s piece. Perhaps he has been indulging in some of the medicinal products that fueled Ozzy Osbourne’s creativity, because Kimmage goes off the rails on a crazy train with these two paragraphs:

Too much attention is paid to the weaponry Ukraine lacks and to the areas in which its military has fallen short. But the country has a growing military arsenal, from defense-industrial capacity that will come online in 2025 to the lived experience of its soldiers and officers, who are on the avant-garde of 21st-century warfare.

In February 2022, Russia occupied some 11% of Ukrainian territory. After the deaths of countless Russian soldiers, Russia now occupies just some 18% of Ukrainian territory. The numbers chart Russia’s humiliation in this war—its strategic quandary and ultimate dead end.

What is this man reading and the source of his claim that Ukraine’s military arsenal is growing? The only thing growing with regularity in Ukraine are the graves being filled with dead Ukrainian soldiers. Not only is Ukraine failing to churn out meaningful quantities of 155 mm shells, tanks, armored personnel carriers and artillery pieces, it is frantically begging the West to supply missiles, money and more equipment. Kimmage is downright delusional.

Kimmage is a creature of the Cold War and appears incapable of grasping the reality that modern Russia shares nothing in common with the failures of the Soviet Union. Kimmage doubles down on stupid with this claim:

But whoever wins the election should recognize that the strategy of containing Russia is working. It has not come at an exorbitant cost, and it has produced remarkable cooperation among partners and allies across the globe. The transatlantic edifice of support for Ukraine (so often alleged to be cracking) has held firm. And in the U.S., Republicans and Democrats have more often collaborated than diverged on Ukraine. It was a Republican Speaker of the House who brought forward the most recent military aid package. Almost all House Democrats voted for it, and President Biden happily signed it.

Someone needs to inform the old fellow that there is this thing called, BRICS, and that Russia and China have forged a tight relationship as a result of the so-called US strategy. Not only that. Countries in the Global South are lining up to join BRICS like celebrities that flocked to Studio 54 in its heyday.

Kimmage is just one more example of the broken US foreign policy elite. The world is passing him and his ilk by. He is so busy looking backwards that he fails to see the new economic and political reality that is taking shape, with BRICS as the vanguard. For him, modern Russia is inconceivable.

https://sonar21.com/ukraine-winning-inconceivable/

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