Ukraine Could Have Won the War in 2022

And this is how (Part 1)

Hi All,

As always, I started writing and became a little wordy. So, this piece of how Ukraine could have won the war in 2022 will become 2 parts. This one sets the stage strategically about how it would have been prepared and the next (probably Thursday) will describe how it could have happened. Sorry it got a little long!

Well, the reporting of doom and gloom which has filled the papers and journals for months, and which reach turbo-charged proportions when the Russians launched their Kharkiv Offensive seems to be abating—at least a little. Its obviously been a bit of an obsession of mine—as it the extremity of the doom never made sense with what we were seeing. It seemed based on predictions of what would happen, as opposed to what we had seen—as I went into over the previous weeks.

Russian Military Equipment Recently Destroyed in Russia itself, after Ukraine was finally given the green light to launch such attacks. Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/06/03/ukraine-russia-war-latest-news7/

Well, the Economist yesterday produced a very different analysis of where things stand—and it was rather shocking to read in comparison to almost everything else (other than this substack of course!) recently written. In a piece entitled “In Crimea, Ukraine is Beating Russia”, the author(s) describe not only developments in Crimea, but also in Kharkiv. I’ve cut and pasted the opening paragraphs if you want to read them.