“We have made it clear what we support and what we do not support.” — Uncle Joe (September 3, 2024)
This means Z, his potent managers and their supporters on the op-ed pages of The Washington Post can stop whining endlessly about not receiving permits to use US supplied weapons to strike deep inside Russia.
Ukraine’s president is putting the final touches on his “peace plan strategy,” which he will present to Biden next week on the sidelines of the UNGA1. Z should use the time in NYC to brief flaks about what he has done this year to mobilize conscripts, build fall-back defensive fortifications, protect the country’s energy grid, maybe explain why he scuppered the Wagner PMC op, vacationed in Oman, for at least four months in 2021 (October, November, December, January) failed to heed repeated warnings — much less tell us — about Russia’s imminent, inevitable invasion, et cetera.
Re-arranging the deck furniture on a sinking ship is never a good idea. Ukraine’s minister in charge of weapons production resigned yesterday and four other ministers stood down in a major government shake-up. The resignations of Strategic Industries Minister Oleksandr Kamyshin, Deputy Prime Minister Olha Stefanishyna and the justice, environment and reintegration ministers leaves over a third of the cabinet vacant after sackings earlier this year.
In addition, two members of Ukrenergo’s supervisory board, Daniel Dobbeni and Peder Andreasen, said in statements that they had resigned in protest over the sacking of Ukrenergo chief Volodymyr Kudrytsky, calling the decision “politically motivated.” Kudrytsky had been regarded as one of the few competent and uncorrupt members of the president’s energy sector team. Ukrenergo is Ukraine’s state electric company.
The pink blob continues to expand, but more slowly.
Russian KIA rates are rising, reaching up to 1,400 daily amid enemy cruise missiles strikes in Poltava (yesterday, 53 dead, hundreds wounded) and Lviv (this morning, seven dead, scores wounded).
See my video of a Kharkiv cemetery. Now tell me Ukraine shouldn’t strike back (The Washington Post, September 4, 2024)