For the 1000th time, we watch as Putin escalates despite the Allies self-deterrence. Not despite, actually, but because of it. When will the West learn that you have to cut cancer out quickly, not negotiate with it or fight it proportionally?
Don’t send this or that essential weapon to Ukraine or Putin will escalate. Don’t create a no -fly zone or Putin will escalate. Don’t clear the Black Sea or Putin will escalate. You chose dishonor and you have escalation anyway. Every time.
Instead of giving Ukraine what it needs to inflict the defeat required to end this war, the Allies are dragging their feet. It gives Putin, his military, and his propaganda time to adapt, invest, regroup. And winter is coming, this time literally.
- Garry Kasparov