August, 2025
Washington — Talks to end Russia's war against Ukraine are predictably going nowhere. Land giveaways will neither be acceptable to Ukraine nor will they end Russian aggression.
What will stop Russia are counterstrikes: whenever Russia commits a war crime against a civilian target, Ukraine's coalition of the willing strikes back hard at Russia's infrastructure from the international waters of the Black Sea.
This is the "Article 5-like" security agreement Ukraine needs. The crimes against humanity must stop. Russia will stop them when they prove counterproductive.
Moves to make this happen are overdue* but more feasible as other options are discarded.
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* "To help protect US interests, US allies and partners need to project naval power across the Black Sea, and the United States can help them accelerate bringing the capabilities to do so to bear."
