Ukraine

The war in Ukraine seems to often get “lost” in the news by other stories led by the situation in the Middle East. In this forgotten European war, Russia seems to be slowly, but, surely enveloping the critical eastern Ukrainian city and major supply hub, Pokrovsk. With the United States no longer contributing much needed dollars to Ukraine in its war effort, Ukraine is more vulnerable than ever. Unless western Europe/NATO increases its support, the possibility of Ukraine actually losing the war looms larger than ever.

There is a significant price Europe will pay if Ukraine loses this war. It would mark the beginning of a new era of Russian expansionism westward. Other smaller European countries adjacent to Ukraine would fall like dominos and then…? The United States will not go unscathed either. Russian expansionism in western Europe will adversely impact America’s global trade in a now less stable world. For those with a loftier perspective, this would be the loss of a democracy. It appears that Putin may be right in his assessment that he can outlast the west in the war in Ukraine.