Top NATO general praises Ukraine’s ‘great’ war strategy

POLITICO ^ | July 19, 2024 | Veronika Melkozerova

[McGruff]

Although Ukrainian forces are being slowly pushed back in some places along the front, the country's overall military strategy is a good one, Gen. Christopher Cavoli, NATO's top general, said during the Aspen Security Forum.

“The Ukrainians right now for these past few months have been focused on defending what they have in the east, denying Russia the free use of Crimea and southern Ukraine to attack the rest of Ukraine, preserving their access to the Black Sea and generating force,” the U.S. general said.

“I think that they’ve got a great strategy. It is just a matter of prosecuting it. The key part is the force generation,” Cavoli added in a speech on Thursday at the U.S. security and foreign policy conference.

[BobL]

“I do believe Biden intended to send in American troops if he got re-elected.”

That very well could be true, but I also think that Putin may be able to ‘change his mind’, via some ‘asymmetric responses’ once the discussion came up. For example, there hasn’t been much action in Crimea in the past month, after their beach got clustered. The working theory for that is Russia made it clear to the US that they would start taking out our (expensive) recon drones over the Black Sea after that our cute move of trying to use the beachgoers as Human Shields. So now we’re essentially blind over Crimea (at least real-time), hence no attacks.