Ukraine, the winter war

Despite the recent U.S. military leadership statements to the contrary, winter is the best time for war-fighting in Ukraine and Russia. It isn't the 18^th century anymore.

U.S. Gen. Mark Milley has noted that the approach of winter could provide 'a window' for a political solution in the war, writes Gwynne Dyer, as pushing Russia out of Ukraine completely would be 'a very difficult task.'Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

December 5, 2022

LONDON, U.K.—When the two most senior military and intelligence officials in Washington make the same obvious error in public three times in three weeks, you have to wonder what they are really up to. Can it just be simple ignorance, or do they have a hidden agenda?

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