{"id":64983,"date":"2023-02-09T07:18:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T12:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64983"},"modified":"2023-02-09T07:18:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T12:18:54","slug":"alexander-vindman-and-the-road-to-world-war-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64983","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Vindman and the Road to World War III"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-top-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"article-title-wrapper non-mobile-title\">\n<div class=\"article-title\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearwire.com\/articles\/2023\/02\/07\/alexander_vindman_and_the_road_to_world_war_iii_880075.html\">Alexander Vindman and the Road to World War III<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\">\n<div class=\"alpha\">\n<div class=\"article-body-wrapper\">\n<div id=\"article_content\" class=\"article-body-text\">\n<p>Retired U.S. Army LTC Alexander Vindman, who gained fame for helping Democrats impeach President Donald Trump for a phone call Trump had with Ukrainian officials in July 2019, is urging the Biden administration and its Western allies to swiftly and dramatically increase military aid and supplies to Ukraine to help the Ukrainian armed forces credibly threaten to take back Crimea, which Russian forces seized in 2014. He lays out a Ukrainian military campaign&#8211;armed and funded by the United States and its NATO allies&#8211;that he claims will cause Russian President Vladimir Putin to negotiate a Russian withdrawal from Crimea and reduce the risk of a wider war. Vindman is reminiscent of those European statesmen and generals before and during World War I who thought that mobilizing for war would somehow prevent it and, if not, would result in a swift victory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/ukraine\/what-ukraine-needs-to-liberate-crimea-alexander-vindman\">Writing<\/a>\u00a0on the\u00a0<em>Foreign Affairs<\/em>\u00a0website, Vindman notes that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a video appeal at the meeting of the World Economic Forum, saying: \u201cCrimea is our land, our territory,\u201d and requesting Western nations to \u201cgive us your weapons\u201d so that Ukraine can retake \u201cwhat is ours.\u201d In his article, Vindman urges Washington and NATO to \u201cgive Ukraine the weapons and assistance it needs to win quickly and decisively in all occupied territories north of Crimea&#8211;and to credibly threaten to take the peninsula militarily.\u201d Vindman suggests that a credible threat to militarily retake Crimea will be sufficient to bring Putin to the negotiating table and end the war on terms favorable to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Vindman has been one of the most vociferous war hawks when it comes to U.S. involvement in the Russia-Ukraine War&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Vindman and the Road to World War III Retired U.S. Army LTC Alexander Vindman, who gained fame for helping Democrats impeach President Donald Trump for a phone call Trump had with Ukrainian officials in July 2019, is urging the Biden administration and its Western allies to swiftly and dramatically increase military aid and supplies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[33678,33676,553,33677,694,821,827,834,862,891,1823],"class_list":["post-64983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-alexander-vindman","tag-francis-p-sempa","tag-nato","tag-real-clear-wire","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-war","tag-world-war","tag-world-war-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64984,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64983\/revisions\/64984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}