New at the Belmont Club. The long war in Ukraine. The second anniversary of what pundits reckoned would last two weeks.
Belmont Club: The Surprising Indeterminacy of the War in Ukraine
It’s been two years since the beginning of the war in Ukraine and the big news is there has been no battlefield decision, something few would have predicted in 2022. It’s hard to say who is even winning. Putin wants victory more than Biden, a fact reflected by Russia’s huge war production of arty ammo and manpower mobilization but the Kremlin is paying for it by starving its economy and military of innovation investment.