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Originally Posted by Pierre
The observations in that article are, I’m sure, accurate and I’ve heard similar observations and I totally accept the brutality of Russian atrocities and in no way have tried to brush over that.
My point, if you read the full exchange between myself and Chris, is that I don’t think a total win for Ukraine is achievable, not without foreign troops on the ground. That won’t happen. So how do you end this war?
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At this point I’d like to challenge the idea that Ukraine needs foreign troops in theatre if it’s to push Russia entirely from its territory - why do you think this? Is it that Ukraine has too few, or that they’re too poorly trained, or something else? I’ll say from the outset I don’t agree that lack of manpower is Ukraine’s first or even second challenge; it may not even be its third. What it needs is ammunition, and advanced delivery systems that can hit Russia wherever it needs to be hit in order to degrade its ability to continue its war. It also needs financial support to keep its economy going and adequate defences to keep its national infrastructure intact.