FROZEN IN THE WINTER OF DISCONTENT: Ukraine greets 2024
It’s the New year’s season and the Ukraine war has largely frozen in place. The heady hope that the Western equipped Ukrainian Army’s “summer offensive” could break through and re-establish Ukrainian sovereignty to pre-2022 borders foundered in the maze of Russian defensive belts north of Tokmak. Ukrainian operations now seem more tied towards IO and fundraising than any coherent scheme of maneuver. Meanwhile, the Russian’s spastic and ill-thought-out counterattacks further north gain mere yards at great cost. Both armies are desperately tired and seem to be “phoning-it-in...