Elon Musk, Russell Brand, Donald Trump Are Wrong About Ukraine's Maidan Revolution
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DAILY WAR JOURNAL—ON CHICAGO’S WGN RADIO:
War Day 373: Elon Musk, Russell Brand, Donald Trump Are Wrong About Ukraine's Maidan Revolution
Plus: What’s happening in Bakhmut—and is the American support actually arriving in time?
from Friday 3 March: Joe Lindsley’s daily Ukraine report on Chicago's WGN Radio with Bob Sirott
by JOE LINDSLEY
KHARKIV—While Russia moves to encircle the small city of Bakhmut, after nearly nine months of trying to take it, the skies of Ukraine have been generally quiet for a week: Where is Russia's much anticipated one-year anniversary escalation? And: While the west talks about supporting Ukraine, where is the ammunition, where are the tanks?
We also discuss: the elections in Estonia, a country that knows Moscow oppression and so is a fierce supporter of Ukraine; and the strange rumblings in Moldova, which is on high alert against Russian aggression
You can watch and listen above.
DAILY WAR ANALYSIS:
The Narrow Way: Countering the Axis Powers
A formidable new alliance between Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran is emerging as a significant existential threat to global security. The path to peace is found through strength—an end to our internal corruption and a decisive victory for Ukraine.
by BRENNAN PHILLIPS
Brennan Phillips, American, is a veteran, humanitarian, writer, and volunteer specializing in pre-hospital care with multiple deployments overseas—Iraq, Syria, and Ukraine. He also works full-time as a data analyst and studies full-time, majoring in Data Science
As Russia's invasion of Ukraine enters its second year, a well-defined axis of powers has emerged as the West's economic and military contender. China and Russia have coalesced to advance the military capabilities of Iran, lift the flailing economy of North Korea, and bring developing economies like India, Turkey, and Brazil into their economic orbit.
Iran continues to supply personnel and lethal aid, particularly their Shahed drones and artillery, in exchange for advanced weaponry, helicopters, and air defense systems. Despite sanctions designed to prevent them from developing nuclear weapons, Iranian support continues to help sustain Russian forces in Ukraine.
Also under long-standing economic and financial sanctions, it was found that North Korea continues to provide millions of dollars worth of rockets, missiles, and artillery to Russia in exchange for money, food, and oil. North Korea's involvement suggests that both parties feel confident enough to disregard sanctions without consequence.
China's involvement is most worrying, as it has supplied non-lethal aid to Russian troops and is now considering not only dual-use technology that can be used to enhance communications and logistics on the battlefield but also lethal aid.
Belarusian President Lukashenko's recent visit to China has raised suspicions that China may seek to launder lethal aid through Belarus to circumvent Russian sanctions. Neither sanctions against Russia nor Belarus seem to have any force to curtail this activity.
There is also mounting evidence that Russia is directly advancing the nuclear programs of China, North Korea, and Iran in exchange for increased economic trade and their direct military support in Ukraine.
US intelligence officials have reported that in December 2022, Russia delivered 6.5 tons of uranium to China for the Changbao Island fast-breeder reactor. This reactor is expected to be operational in 2023 and will quadruple China's nuclear arsenal within the next 12 years, matching the current arsenals of Russia and the US.
Although inconvenienced at the outset, current sanctions have little effect on Russia's wartime economy, which now operates unimpeded. Along with China and Iran, even nations thought to be allied to or neutral toward Ukraine are helping to prop up the Russian economy.
Economic reports for 2022 highlight two egregious offenders: Turkey and India. Compared to 2021, Turkish imports from Russia increased by 213%, with India's increasing by 400%. Turkish exports to Russia increased by 113%, with India's hovering steadily from 2021 at $2.6 billion. Similar trends were found for Brazil and Indonesia.
A formidable new alliance between Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran is emerging as a significant existential threat to global security. Western governments must chart a course to peace in Ukraine. Imposing sanctions bereft of consequences while watching developing economies tie themselves to the Yen and Ruble is not a strategy.
There is a path to peace, a narrow way between Left and Right, that neither capitulates to Russian and Chinese imperialism nor caters to the corrupt exploits of a protracted war. A path to peace focuses on the welfare of the Ukrainian people, preserving their dignity and their right to self-determination. The path to peace is found through strength—an end to our internal corruption and a decisive victory for Ukraine.
DAILY SITUATION SUMMARY:
3 March: Fierce battles for Bakhmut, shelling of Kherson
Situation summary of Russia’s war on Ukraine by region for Friday, March 3, 2023
by PAVLO VITENKO
Headlines:
—In the Kherson region, a Russian drone dropped explosives on a queue for a humanitarian worker
—"Russia wants to carry out a coup in Moldova", — Podoliak
—In the coming days, Ukraine will receive 1 billion euros worth of ammunition from EU countries — Financial Times
—The State Duma of the Russian Federation is calling to declare war on Ukraine
—Poland in Poznań starts production of tanks together with South Korea
Summary by oblasts (regions):
KHERSON REGION
A 45-year-old man was blown up by a mine in the forest lane in the Ivanivka district of Beryslav district. He has a mine-explosive injury, a contusion and facial wounds.
In total, during the day, the enemy carried out 65 attacks on the region, including four on Kherson (mortars, anti-aircraft guns, artillery, tanks, UAVs). In Kherson there are hits in residential quarters.
During the day, 17 people were injured and one person died in the region.
Another 75 people, including 10 children, were evacuated from the territories of the Kherson region liberated from the Russians. …
SUMY REGION
In the Sumy region yesterday afternoon, the aggressors shelled Nova Sloboda, Khotyn, Bilopillia, Velyka Pysarivka, Seredyno-Budsk, Esman, Znob-Novhorod, Myropillia, Krasnopillia and Shalyhyne communities. 177 hits were recorded from mortars, barrel artillery, self-propelled guns, and small arms fire. …
DONETSK REGION
In the Donetsk region, Russian troops fired 45 rounds of artillery fire, Grad anti-aircraft guns, mortars, tanks, and carried out an airstrike with an Kh-59 missile. Residential sectors were shelled in the villages of Zoryane, Severne, Lastochkine, in Bakhmut, Krasnohorivka, Velyka Novosilka, the villages of Bohoyavlenka, Orlivka, Zalizne, Hryhorivka, in Kostyantynivka, in the villages of Ivanopillia, Kamianka, Krasnohorivka, as well as in Avdiivka (residential sector, surroundings, coke plant, industrial zone), in the village of Karlivka-2 (reservoir), in the village of Kurakhivka (territory of an industrial enterprise). …
Read the full region-by-region summary here.
DAILY WAR MUSIC:
Tvorchi is a Ukrainian duo from the western city of Ternopil, and they will represent Ukraine in this year’s Eurovision, which Liverpool, U.K., is hosting in lieu of Ukraine, whose Kalush Orchestra won the contest last year.
Tvorchi consists of Andrii Hutsuliak, from Ternopil oblast, and Jimoh Augustus Kehinde, a Nigerian immigrant to Ukraine. They formed the band while studying at Ternopil’s National Medical University. This song, “Hidden Code,” is a tribute to Ukraine’s IT Army—the young volunteers using their tech savvy to gum up Russian plans in order to achieve Ukrainian victory.
OUTSIDE PERSPECTIVE:
“Biden’s Self-Defeating Ukraine Strategy”
“Restricting weapons to Ukraine gives Russia and China the advantage”
from Washington Free Beacon’s Matthew Continetti
Many of those who don’t support Ukraine say that the United States is giving too much to Ukraine, but upon closer inspection, is the USA really giving that much?
One year into the war, Russia has yet to establish air supremacy over Ukraine. This failure speaks to the dilapidated state of the Russian military. It also gives Ukraine an opportunity to reclaim the skies and provide her ground forces with air cover. All Ukraine needs are the tools—tools that Biden and America’s NATO allies have been providing slowly, in dribs and drabs, in fear of provoking the Russian bear.
Zelensky is more aware of Ukraine’s defense needs than Biden, who isn’t sure if he’s called the mayor of East Palestine, Ohio, in the past month. And Zelensky has a keener appreciation of the complicated social, political, economic, strategic, and tactical conditions on the eastern front, where Russia is making incremental gains, at incredible cost in manpower and materiel, in a savage war of attrition. A true statesman would recognize that Zelensky is the better judge of Ukraine’s requirements and move heaven and earth to satisfy them so that the war ends, and deterrence is restored. Biden is not that man.
Read the full story here from Washington Free Beacon.
PREVIOUSLY—kindly forward stories to those whom might be interested:
War Day 371: @JackPosobiec, @senatormikelee, Ex-Pentagon Officials: Why Do You Misquote Zelenskiy?
KHARKIV—Today, amid frequent alarms, while Bakhmut holds amid terrible odds, I awoke to see prominent American voices texting and tweeting a lie about Zelenskiy. Here's what he really said in that viral video, the beginning of which of course none of the re-tweeters shared.
“I always loved Jordan Peterson,” my friend Sasha, a Ukrainian knifemaker in Lviv, told me recently. “But we don’t need him now. He’s left us. He doesn’t understand us.”
Read “Missile Strikes vs Ice Baths: Why Do Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson Ignore Reality of Ukraine?” from Poland’s TVP World.
Six unpopular truths about Ukraine
1. Russia’s war on Ukraine is happening for one reason: Ukrainians insist on freedom.
2. The talk of war crimes misses the point. The entire war is a war crime.
3. Ukraine’s democratic corruption is not as awful as in numerous other countries.
4. Most Ukrainians are unvaccinated against coronavirus.
5. Hunter Biden made money from Russia, and not from Ukraine.
6. The US has actually given less support to Ukraine than it seems.
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