Lessons From Catch-22
In a sign of impatience with the counteroffensive's progress -- probably too late at this stage -- Zelensky has fired his defense minister : Ukraine’s Minister of Defense has resigned after President Volodymyr Zelensky announced his intentions to replace him amid the struggling counteroffensive against Russia and mounting corruption scandals. Oleksii Reznikov, who has led the Ukrainian war effort since the Russian invasion in February of last year, tendered his resignation on Monday, writing on social media: “It was an honour to serve the Ukrainian people and work for the Ukrainian Army for the last 22 months, the toughest period of Ukraine’s modern history.” A week ago, I posted a tally of the major Ukraine corruption scandals to date , but it appears that yet another is in the background of Reznikov's resignation: Although Reznikov has yet to be tied with any of the corruption scandals personally, the [New York] Times went on to admit that the resignation h...