Navigating Ukraine’s Defeat: Europe’s unappetising choices as Gulf War III takes centre-stage

Navigating Ukraine’s Defeat: Europe’s unappetising choices as Gulf War III takes centre-stage

14 Apr 26
Posted by: Cdre Steve Jermy RN (rtd)
6 minutes, 26 seconds read
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The author provides an update on the geostrategic energy aspect of the Ukraine War, with the expansion of the conflict in the Middle East in mind. A 5 minute read.

Schopenhauer said, “All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; third, it is accepted as self-evident.” As independent Western military commentators have forecast, the truth of Ukraine’s defeat by Russia is emerging clear on the battlefield. Even before the Iranian War began, American politicians were tacitly acknowledging this truth as self-evident, including through strategic pull-back and in the China shift in the US’s National Security Strategy. Whereas Europe’s ‘coalition of the willing’ leaders had moved from ridicule to violent opposit…

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