You write, "Ukraine’s strikes on Russia’s oil refining and petro-chemical production present another major threat to the Kremlin’s ability to sustain the war."
I'm curious about this. How does Russia transport it's oil to it's three major customers, China, India and Turkey? What about hitting the pipelines and ports where oil is loaded on to tankers? If they can't ship their oil to customers, their customers will have to look elsewhere.
You write, "The Russian military needs to make a breakthrough in Ukraine’s defensive lines in Donetsk in order to gain a definitive upper hand on the battlefield and in negotiations to end the war on the minimum terms acceptable to Moscow. "
We really should just stop talking about negotiations. Ukraine and the EU will never be safe so long as Putin is alive. All negotiations can accomplish is to put off to tomorrow what needs to be done today, kill Russia's oil business, collapse the Russian economy, and get Russians elites fighting each other.
1) The EU should give Ukraine unlimited amounts of money to accelerate the production of the new Flamingo cruise missiles.
2) Turkey, India and China should all be told that if they do any business with Russia they can't do any business with the EU.
This is a war. We're either going to do what is necessary to win, or we're going to lose.
You write, "Ukraine’s strikes on Russia’s oil refining and petro-chemical production present another major threat to the Kremlin’s ability to sustain the war."
I'm curious about this. How does Russia transport it's oil to it's three major customers, China, India and Turkey? What about hitting the pipelines and ports where oil is loaded on to tankers? If they can't ship their oil to customers, their customers will have to look elsewhere.
You write, "The Russian military needs to make a breakthrough in Ukraine’s defensive lines in Donetsk in order to gain a definitive upper hand on the battlefield and in negotiations to end the war on the minimum terms acceptable to Moscow. "
We really should just stop talking about negotiations. Ukraine and the EU will never be safe so long as Putin is alive. All negotiations can accomplish is to put off to tomorrow what needs to be done today, kill Russia's oil business, collapse the Russian economy, and get Russians elites fighting each other.
1) The EU should give Ukraine unlimited amounts of money to accelerate the production of the new Flamingo cruise missiles.
2) Turkey, India and China should all be told that if they do any business with Russia they can't do any business with the EU.
This is a war. We're either going to do what is necessary to win, or we're going to lose.