Article is cut short for me, but there's enough to tell the tale and deliver the sentiment.
This war of attrition is a cruelty that we perpetuate by not doing our part to end it.
We do just enough to pat ourselves on the back as the Ukrainians die for their liberty over the military tyranny of the East.
Future conflicts with Russia and China are going to be wildly more difficult if we start this global war by losing on the European front.
The breadbasket of Europe SHOULD NOT be allowed to fall into enemy hands.
On a recent trip to Ukraine, we walked through the rubble of a children’s hospital in Kyiv targeted by the Russians, toured an apartment building in Kharkiv where floor after floor had been destroyed by Russian missiles, and visited the front lines to meet with soldiers who spoke of the brutality of Russian human-wave tactics. But the most unsettling thing we saw was the American strategy in Ukraine, one that gives the Ukrainian people just enough military aid not to lose their war but not enough to win it. This strategy is slowly bleeding Ukraine, and its people, to death.
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In Kharkiv, we met with a group of Ukrainian combat veterans. Before the war, Victoria Honcharuk, a 24-year-old medic, lived in the United States, where she’d been accepted to a graduate program at Harvard while working in New York City in investment banking. When war broke out in February 2022, she left that life behind and returned home to defend her country. Her unit of medics, composed entirely of volunteers, draws no pay. Approximately half of the friends she began service with have been killed or wounded.
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