Another excellent recap. Not much to comment on except Macron's lunacy. He just double-downed on his idiocy. Scott Ritter pointed out yesterday that between the UK, France, Germany and Poland, they can only put together maybe a dozen brigades total. Russia has dozens if not scores of brigades in Ukraine. So any EU country unilaterally entering Ukraine is going to die. And he also notes that in that case Russia is within its international law rights to conduct strikes directly against those EU countries. Which means Paris vanishes.
I suggested over at Antiwar.com that Russia merely needs to drop a hypersonic missile with a conventional warhead on Macron's head. No nuke needed. Take out one loudmouth as a warning to the others. :-)
Your update is not too long. Always a pleasure to read it!
Another excellent recap. Not much to comment on except Macron's lunacy. He just double-downed on his idiocy. Scott Ritter pointed out yesterday that between the UK, France, Germany and Poland, they can only put together maybe a dozen brigades total. Russia has dozens if not scores of brigades in Ukraine. So any EU country unilaterally entering Ukraine is going to die. And he also notes that in that case Russia is within its international law rights to conduct strikes directly against those EU countries. Which means Paris vanishes.
I suggested over at Antiwar.com that Russia merely needs to drop a hypersonic missile with a conventional warhead on Macron's head. No nuke needed. Take out one loudmouth as a warning to the others. :-)
Cheers Richard
Great summary. I decided to stop doing it to focus on articles, so know how much work it takes.