Top Tweets for #URAINE

The Churchill Escalation Model: strike the enemy’s capital, accept the risk of retaliation, and exploit the resulting escalation as propaganda to mobilise public opinion, widen the conflict, and secure deeper American involvement. That is the logic attributed to Churchill during the Second World War, and what NATO states and Ukraine are attempting today bears all the uncomfortable hallmarks of a deeply cynical strategy in which civilians are treated as collateral damage in pursuit of an escalatory trajectory now unfolding across Europe. Ukraine, backed by European governments, is increasingly taking the war deep into Moscow, creating precisely the kind of escalatory dynamic in which Russian retaliation could broaden the conflict and generate pressure for greater American involvement, potentially abandoning the diplomatic track altogether. At the same time, escalation provides tangible evidence to an increasingly apathetic European public of what can be presented as the Russian menace. Escalation, is a means of deflecting attention from domestic failures while deepening political and material commitment to an ill conceived war. It is a sunk-cost strategy that Europe has been pursuing for the past two years.