Can We Win the War in Ukraine?

Now that Joe is putting together another $800 million package for Ukraine, this will altogether amount to $16 billion in military aid that we have given the Zelensky government since the fighting with Russia first began. So, I think it’s safe to say that the war between Ukraine and Russia is really a conflict between the United States and Russia, with Ukraine as our ally supplying the troops while we come up with the munitions and the guns.

I notice there’s a big deal being made out of the shipment of what are called ‘cluster bombs,’ which allegedly create serious injuries for civilians and can wind up sitting in the ground unexploded and being potentially dangerous for years. According to CNN, these bombs have been stockpiled in our arsenal since 2016, when we stopped using them because of humanitarian concerns.

In other words, it’s not a humanitarian issue if you kill soldiers in a war; it’s only a humanitarian problem if you kill humans who aren’t walking around with guns. That’s an interesting distinction, wouldn’t you say?

Meanwhile, the CNN article, put together by the — ready? — network’s Senior Global Military Affairs Writer, says these weapons were first developed and used in World War II. That so?

Maybe the CNN military expert should read Robert Bruce’s book, Lincoln and the Tools of War, which describes…