Diogenes-Light: Morning Jolt: ‘When You Get to Shoot Back, the Morale Is Higher’

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March 19 2024

'When You Get to Shoot Back, the Morale Is Higher'

On the menu today: As of this writing, I've experienced another thankfully quiet day in Kyiv. Maryan Zablosky, a member of Ukraine's parliament, offers some blunt talk about the state of the war, and a succinct assessment of the morale of the Ukrainian army. The Czech Republic wheels and deals and gets some results where the U.S. couldn't. And as the world marks the ten-year anniversary of Vladimir Putin occupying Crimea, a detailed look at how the peninsula — and access to it — may be the fulcrum of the war.

Good and Bad News on Ukraine's Arms Accumulation

Kyiv, Ukraine — Last August in this city, I met Maryan Zablotskiy, a member of Ukraine's parliament, and he described to me what he called an "Axis of A**holes" operating around the world — a loose coalition of hostile states and allied groups attacking the innocent, seeking to destabilize and attack free countries, ...

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