UKRAINE'S STALINGRAD MOMENT?
(Affichages faits sur Linked In ces derniers jours) A remarkably frank assesment of Ukrainian weaknesses, amid slow Russian territorial gains in the East. The Pokrovsk salient seems about to collapse, which would liberate Russian forces and enable Moscow to apply even more pressure against the arc of fortress-cities in the Donetsk, and also in other areas of Eastern Ukraine, notably Sumy, Kharkov and Dnepropetrovsk. If so, the end of the war will be sooner than feared, reducing the bloodbill and opening the way for reconstruction. The countries of the European Union would then be able to stop to waste their money on a lost cause, and an unwinnable war, just to please NATO-friendly Anglosphere powers, like the US, the UK and Canada (more precisely the anglophone part of it). They may even start putting their money to more sensible uses, like: improving their budgetary imbalance, starting to decouple militarily from the US, boosting trade, financial and economic links with Ch...