ukraine@war

ukraine@war

Day 622

Nov 07, 2023
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Stephan wraps up the situation in Ukraine, concluding:

I see plain, old-fashioned human error as the main driver of events here.

In any case, it’s been a week of public relations chaos at the top of Ukraine’s government and military leadership. You get this from time to time in democracies at war, but even when you recognize it for what it is it isn’t very pretty1.

Not included in his analysis is the tragic death of Zaluzhny’s aide, who blew himself up yesterday outside of Kyiv with what he thought was a toy hand grenade2.

Horenko’s Halloween promo was an OPSEC disaster I overlooked.

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