War Day 817: Why Can't Ukraine Fire Back?
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Who Is Holding Back Ukraine?
Jake Sullivan is the White House’s national security advisor. He’s been influencing America’s policy under both Biden and Obama. He consistently refuses to give Ukraine permission to attack Russian missile launchers mere miles from Ukrainian cities.
Now, with the fiercely free city of Kharkiv under near-daily assault, a growing chorus is saying: Why can’t Ukraine hit Russia’s missile launching points,
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War Day 817: Why Can't Ukraine Fire Back?
🇺🇦 Every Day Until Victory on Chicago’s WGN Radio with Bob Sirott: Joe Lindsley reports every single weekday 10 minutes from Ukraine 🎙️ Tuesday 21 May 2024
LVIV—A growing chorus of voices including humanitarian volunteers are asking why the White House won't let Ukraine hit Moscow rocket launch points on Russian soil, just a few miles from Kharkiv city.
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Taras Byk's special mission is the breakup of the Russian Federation, a project that doesn't seem so far-fetched after the Prigozhin mutiny, and Putin’s endless aggression that is exhausting Russia’s military and economic reserves. Taras is a civil society activist and political strategist, who believes that Ukraine's Maidan Revolution, in which he participated, saved not only Ukraine but also Europe. Today we will be discussing the threat from a resurgent Russia, and the history of imperial expansion that sits behind it. Can Ukraine's stand for freedom and struggle against renewed Russification of its peoples hold the line in Europe between freedom and authoritarianism, between the rule of law and unimaginable barbarism. Can Ukraine's experience even help revitalise the idea of democracy and help us to become more resilience in the face of creeping nepotism, corruption, oligarchy, and aggressive autocrats?
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UKRAINIAN FREEDOM VOICES
"I think we need to allow Ukraine to prosecute the war the way they see fit. They need to be able to fight back, and I think trying to micromanage the effort there is not a good policy for us" says U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, urging the White House to allow Ukraine to use American tools to hit Russian military targets.
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I was reciting Rudyard Kipling’s “If” with friends on a supply delivery trip to Donbas.
And during that road trip I realized this: In the ancient and still flourishing Ukrainian language, the word for “if” literally means “how-what”: a workman like idea of how to achieve the impossible. Because Ukraine never colonized other countries, the Ukrainian language is an easy window into how early Indo-European humans forumated language based on necessity and possibility. —Joe Lindsley
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In Kharkiv, people returned to walk and play in the city's Central Park just an hour after a Russian missile strike. I think Ukrainians can teach us about freedom: They won't surrender their liberty even in the face of ballistic missiles. How easily do the rest of us give up our freedoms?
Why do you think Russians are attacking parks in Kharkiv? Well, they’ve told us. They want to scare away the people, so that Moscow can take the city. But as Gregory from Kharkiv Media Hub @kharkivmediahub here reports, even just an hour after a Russian rocket hit Central Park, people returned to walk, run, play soccer, and enjoy the weather. In Kharkiv, they refuse to surrender.
But until the USA gives permission for Ukraine to hit Russian military items in Russia, Kharkiv is a sitting duck. How many more missile attacks on parks must be endured?
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