If we can keep pouring in weaponry, at some point Ukraine will start more counteroffensives. As the assessment notes, the Russians are already taking up defensive positions. Eventually, I’m sure that the Ukrainians would want to not just break the siege at Mariupol, but cut the Russian lines in half and encircle them to the west, to provide a buffer for Odessa.
How did Ukraine manage to attack a key port and sink a ship well behind Russian lines? No one’s quite sure yet, the Wall Street Journal reports, but the apparent success may create even more problems for Russia’s attempts to seize Mariupol. Berdyansk had been a key supply point, and seemingly out of range of Ukraine until this morning.
Expect to see them take more initiatives like this.
Patricia quit drinking it a couple years ago (except when she goes out to breakfast), so I quit making it (and drinking it myself). I never acquired a taste for the swill, and (as noted in the article) these results don’t mean that non-drinkers should start drinking it, so I guess I won’t.
I find it amazing that the Democrats have managed to get themselves on the wrong side of almost every issue. And they can’t fix it unless they stop catering to their nutty base, and they can’t stop being condescending because it’s almost at the core of their current identity.
DARPA is supporting development of some useful technologies. Just think where we might be if just a fraction of the money poured down the SLS rathole had gone into this sort of thing.