[Salon] media's triumphalist coverage of Ukraine hides real danger

[Kelley Vlahos <vlahos@quincyinst.org>]

Good morning ! Seth Harp, an Iraq War veteran who covered the early months of the Ukraine war for Harper's, discusses how the media spin over Ukraine's recent battlefield gains distorts reality: that the war could be headed into the kind of conflict purgatory we see today in Georgia and Moldova, Iraq and Syria — "a war that never ends, in an unlucky country caught between two past-their-prime superpowers, neither of which has the ability to win outright, nor the humanity to negotiate a compromise, with the result that many thousands die in vain."

Please read today and pass along in your networks if so inclined: https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/09/19/putting-ukrainian-battle-successes-into-cold-hard-perspective/

all the best for a great week,

Kelley

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