The Prussian General Carl von Clausewitz, in his classic On War, noted that " This partly means that you need to act prudently, but with the utmost effort, realizing that war is still more of a brutal fight than a game of chess..

Or you can put it in the simpler words of Jim Malone, one of the characters in the movie The Untouchables: “Want to know how to beat Capone? They pull out a knife and you pull out a gun. They send one of your people to the hospital, you send one of them to the morgue.. These are the methods of Chicago! And that's how you can beat Capone." Elliot Cohen, professor at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, writes about this in an article for The Atlantic..

In his opinion, Al Capone is a fairly accurate analogy to what the West is fighting in Russia: it is a particularly dangerous mixture of mafia mentality, hypernationalist ideology and totalitarian techniques.. Elegance is not a Russian method. Therefore, it cannot also be the method of the West. It is from this point of view that the achievement of the recent NATO summit, which took place in Madrid, should be viewed..

The Serious Efforts Announced by Western Leaders Are Amazing From Many Points of View. This is especially true of obligations to provide Ukraine with about 500 artillery systems, 600 tanks, hundreds of thousands of ammunition.. But the question, as always, is whether all these weapons will be transferred as quickly as the Ukrainian side is able to master them.. And they “keep their finger on the pulse” of the United States together with its allies, preparing the infrastructure right now to prepare Ukraine for the use of weapons that it will need in a month, two or six months.

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The US also agreed to send additional forces to Europe, including sending two destroyers to a naval base in Spain.. Political steps were also very important. NATO decided to expand its rapid reaction force, formally recognized the " But these steps, despite their potential benefits, only partially meet current needs.. Ukraine has proven its ability to master advanced military equipment and deploy it quickly and efficiently. Her experience with HIMARS installations has become a prime example. Ukrainian forces are already using these artillery systems to blow up Russian weapons depots and command centers.. But instead of the promised 8 HIMARS systems, Ukraine needs 80. And now it is necessary to increase the supply of such and similar weapons and do it as soon as possible..

The Joe Biden administration still hasn't decided what the ultimate goal of Western aid to Ukraine is. During a press conference, the American president said that the US and allies " But it's a false target. It is necessary to achieve the defeat of Russia, which means to thwart its plans to seize even more Ukrainian territory, to suppress the Russian army, and all this must be done unambiguously and publicly. So, yes, it will be humiliating for Moscow. In other words, it will be in accordance with Chicago rules..

The administration is doing the wrong thing when it cuts arms supplies out of a misguided desire not to provoke a Russian escalation or let Ukraine succeed too much.. The West is experiencing a crisis of the military-industrial complex. He needs to take concrete steps to step up industrial mobilization to provide Ukraine with everything it needs, as well as to rearm the growing forces of an awakened NATO.. In addition to countering a Russian invasion of Ukraine, Western allies also need to deal with Russia's broader and longer-term threat to NATO members on the eastern flank, particularly in the Baltics..

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Western allies will not invade Russia or try to overthrow the regime there. Maybe one day the Russians will do it themselves. Putin is driven by imperialist fantasies, comparing himself to Peter I and even less interesting Russian leaders.. And the successor of the Russian autocrat is unlikely to be better.

It is enough just to look at the delirium of people in his environment, such as Nikolai Patrushev. If and when the fighting in Ukraine stops, Russian intentions to expand and subjugate neighbors will not disappear..

The good news is that if you put aside the deceptive memories of World War II and the Cold War, and don't listen to the ominous mumbling of experts who exaggerated Russian capabilities before the invasion, it becomes clear that Russia is really weak..