”Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead.”

良記事「ウ東部戦はWW2以来最も重要な戦いになる。ウが成功すれば露を弱体化させ封じ込められる。失敗すれば露と中は他の地域にも介入する。ウには有能な兵力と意志があるがキエフ周辺の待ち伏せ戦ではなく広野での戦車戦になる。ウを適切に支援しないと恐ろしい結果を招く」 https://t.co/SF48FTCQpn

— H.S. Kim (@xcvbnm67890) April 13, 2022

If Ukraine succeeds in preserving its freedom and territorial integrity, a diminished Russia will be contained; if it fails, the chances of war between NATO and Russia go up, as does the prospect of Russian intervention in other areas on its western and southern peripheries. A Russian win would encourage a China coolly observing and assessing Western mettle and military capacity; a Russian defeat would induce a salutary caution in Beijing.

While Russia itself will likely remain a paranoid and isolated dictatorship after this war, it can be defanged, even as its own folly reduces it to the ranks of a third-rate power. But war is war, and the future is always uncertain. All that is clear right now is that a failure to adequately support Ukraine will have terrible consequences, and not just for that heroic and suffering nation.

全力でウクライナ支援して、ロシアを無力化するのはいい・・・・中国に対する「見せしめ」のためにもこれはこれでいいんだが・・・・

And if American expertise is needed, it can be provided without the U.S. entering the war directly. Before Pearl Harbor, the American Volunteer Group, known as the Flying Tigers, was sent to China to fly P-40 fighters against the Japanese air force there. The group did so with the support of the U.S. government. Something similar can be done in Ukraine, if only there is the will to do it.

アメリカが間接的に戦争介入するのはいつものことだし・・・ 

しかし、ロシアは核兵器もっているからなあ。

The moment requires a bit of Shakespeare’s Henry V, but what has been on display has been too much of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.

あらすじ｜ヘンリー五世 新国立劇場 

 Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead. 

 （もう一度あの突破口へ突撃だ、諸君、もう一度、 それが成らずばイギリス兵の死体であの穴をふさいでしまえ）

ウクライナ人の死体が原爆で積み重なるのは見たくないなああ、しかし・・・。