- need a proponent of that lovely theorem no one can verify, but that usually represents the most hawkish position possible?
Look no further than the former ambassodor to the Ukraine, ousted by Trump, Marie Yovanovitch.
She has a new book out.
Also a proponent of the “Putin is not going to stop with Ukraine, and this is a serious threat for Nato countries” thesis of course --
Oh, and dont forget the CNN moderator that leads in with the following question, referencing a specific paragraph in Yovanovitchs book:
“We have failed to call out Russia’s behavior in a way that Russia finds persuasive or taken steps to stop it that Moscow finds compelling. If we continue to fumble around [always a great sign, when you make arguments non specific], we will someday, maybe soon, find ourselves in a serious confrontation in a context not of our choosing and not to our advantage.”
- then states, that this was prescient, then asks, how is what we are seeing today a consequence of what she wrote - this is the answer that follows:
“I think its the culmination of what we’ve seen coming from the Putin regime, over the last 20 years - 2008, the invasion of Georgia, then we had Ukraine in 2014, and now Ukraine again in 2022, and I think Putin will continue to expand, ah, the russian empire, the former soviet empire as he sees it, unless he is stopped.”
What follows next is a news anchor that starts prancing around and miming a closed fist vs. open hand metaphor into camera, giving an exact image, of how serious the former ambassador was when she wrote
- someday, maybe [we’ll] find ourselves in a serious confrontation in a context not of our choosing and not to our advantage
to then end his inquiry, by finishing his question - “Is this [what we currently see] that, that we are meeting Putin with a closed fist now, instead of an open hand?”
You know - the urgent question, for the public debate, that gets broadcast on CNN these days… Oh, and could I interest you in a book thats indeed very prescient?
Almost as prescient as DWs interview with the former US Army Europe Commander Lt. General Ben Hodges, who understands that the coming two weeks will be decisive, and is also a proponent of the thesis, that… Ah, listen for yourself:
This was Ben Hodges at the Munich Security conference three weeks ago, btw.:
You know - DW and him are good friends.
Oh, and Amanpour of course… (See click and click.)
Oh, and the Ukraine will succeed in a war of attrition of course especially longterm:
Which the same CNN moderator then calls “slow annihilation, as US officials were telling Jim Sciutto”. (Probably in this video, if not, limit the youtube search filter to the last month and start digging.)
Yeah, who could want that… Nobody could want that, right?
Now, look at the cute little doggy! Is it a moral obligation?
Look at the doggy once more.
(Theres a second, entirely unrelated, puppy dog shot in the video, btw. just for good measure.)
edit: Two dogs in this report. Very popular motive for camera crews these days. But this time, at least not in the attract image.
