[GK3]

The April 30 issue of ISW's discussion of the Ukraine War is quite interesting.  The comings and goings and whose on first mess that was and is the Russian command structure is hard to believe.

https://understandingwar.org/backgrounde...023#_edn56

ISW brings real insider knowledge.  I have had a chance to work with General Keane, and he is "read in" on a lot of action.  
He was Deputy Commander at CENTCOM under Petraeus so he knows a lot about the general theater and the weaponry.  

But, from here in WDC, both parties struggle with minority factions that do not see strategic value in Ukraine. 
Bernie Sanders et.al. want to cut the DOD by $400B; "Stop forever War".  
Some of the Right Wingers see China as a MUCH bigger threat, and Ukraine is a deliberate distraction by the Russia-China Tandem.

True, but we have seldom gone to war with everyone voting Yes.  Thanks to Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt finally was able to support England the way he wanted.  Back then being an Isolationist made sense to some, we didn't need them so why get involved.  Now the world is a much, much smaller place and if you are one of the big kids on the block you are either going to have to take a position and act on it, or get over run.  Both Russia and China will steal our secrets and technological advances as long as we make it easy for them.  It also means that we don't have them money to do everything we would like to do.  You have to draw a line in the sand someplace, sometime and stick to it.

[GK3]

The April 30 issue of ISW's discussion of the Ukraine War is quite interesting.  The comings and goings and whose on first mess that was and is the Russian command structure is hard to believe.

https://understandingwar.org/backgrounde...023#_edn56

ISW brings real insider knowledge.  I have had a chance to work with General Keane, and he is "read in" on a lot of action.  
He was Deputy Commander at CENTCOM under Petraeus so he knows a lot about the general theater and the weaponry.  

But, from here in WDC, both parties struggle with minority factions that do not see strategic value in Ukraine. 
Bernie Sanders et.al. want to cut the DOD by $400B; "Stop forever War".  
Some of the Right Wingers see China as a MUCH bigger threat, and Ukraine is a deliberate distraction by the Russia-China Tandem.

True, but we have seldom gone to war with everyone voting Yes.  Thanks to Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt finally was able to support England the way he wanted.  Back then being an Isolationist made sense to some, we didn't need them so why get involved.  Now the world is a much, much smaller place and if you are one of the big kids on the block you are either going to have to take a position and act on it, or get over run.  Both Russia and China will steal our secrets and technological advances as long as we make it easy for them.  It also means that we don't have them money to do everything we would like to do.  You have to draw a line in the sand someplace, sometime and stick to it.