Unfortunately, Hanson gets many things wrong.
Controversy still arises over the circumstances of the 2014 overthrow of Ukraine’s pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych.
There have been two free and fair elections since 2014, and in the last election Zelensky received 73% of the vote.
But Ukraine’s problem is not so much weapons as manpower. Nearly a fourth of Ukraine’s population has fled the country....The average age of its soldiers is over 40 years.
There is no lack of manpower in Ukraine, there is a lack of sufficient training and weapons. Only women, children and males below the age of 18 or above the age of 60 left the country.
As to the average age being 40, this was done on purpose, with Ukraine drafting only men older than 25.
They urge Kyiv to seek critical disproportionality through superior weaponry, including hitting strategic targets inside Russia.
False, the Biden administration has for years forbidden Ukraine from attacking military sites in Russia with US weapons. They even tried to stop Ukraine from attacking Russia's oil sites with homemade drones.
The U.S. has overlooked the cancellation of Ukrainian political parties and elections by the Zelensky administration.
Ukraine banned 11 pro-Russian parties out of more than 300 when the war started. As to elections, Ukraine's law forbids elections during martial law. Churchill also cancelled elections during WW2.
Ukraine would be fully armed but without NATO membership.
And this would stop the next invasion by Putin?
Ukraine would be proud that, like heroic 1940 Finland,
Finland joined NATO, realizing something Hanson does not, that only NATO guarantees the independence of Russia's neighbors and not some treaty signed by Putin.
100% Horsehockey.
The hordes of military age males I see every day driving around like a-holes in UA-plated cars here in Germany must be a figment of my imagination then. OK.
Name the treaty between Russia and Ukraine that would stop Russia from invading.