Forward look, ukraine – 5
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Feb 2025
So much has changed since our last Forward Look.
The world has seen political turmoil in the USA where President Trump has taken over from Biden. When you stick a spade into an ant’s nest and turn the soil over, there’s a period of frantic activity while the ants go into emergency mode, assess the damage, and begin to rescue whatever they can from the mayhem. That is the USA in February 2025.
And make no mistake, a frantic USA spells trouble for Ukraine, for the whole of Europe (I include the UK here), and perhaps for Russia and China as well. Predicting anything at this stage is about as useful as predicting the result of a horse race without knowing the length or nature of the course or the form of any of the horses.
But what I can say, is that wider war is possible. There’s a real danger of a European conflict between Russia and the rest of Europe. There’s a chance of civil war between opposing groups within the Russian Federation, and there are also possibilities of a second civil war in the USA and/or a third world war. I fervently hope that none of these things will happen, but events rarely take account of our hopes.
We’re going take a wider look at things here because so much has changed in such a short period of time.
First, let’s just catch up on the current state of the war between the invading Russians and the defending Ukrainians.
Russian and Ukrainian war efforts
Russia is finding it more and more difficult to continue the war. Russian casualties (dead and seriously wounded) are growing close to a million. The Russian economy is in an awful state, 40% of the state budget is being spent on the war. Inflation is rampant, interest rates are extremely high, many professional people have fled the country and Ukraine is systematically destroying Russian oil pipelines, distilleries, fuel storage installations and transport infrastructure, military air bases, radar systems, training facilities and military headquarters.
The much touted Russian ‘advance’ in Ukraine has all but stalled and, in some places, has reversed to retreat. The once feared ‘second most powerful army in the world’ has been fighting against a much smaller neighbour for three years and has failed to win. Hardly an impressive display of military might! Russia has lost most of its huge military power at sea, in the air, and on land. They continue to lose between 1000 and 2000 troops every single day. They have lost almost all their tanks and armed personnel carriers and are unable to replace them as fast as they are losing them.
Ukraine on the other hand has been getting better and better at defeating Russian attacks using a combination of high tech drones, great planning and anticipation, nimble action, good training, surprise, and constant technical innovation.
They continue to defend successfully against most incoming drones and missiles. As long as they continue to receive sufficient support, they will, I believe, continue to succeed and will eventually defeat Russia. In their favour is the fact that they and some of their European allies continue to ramp up the production of both weapons and ammunition to levels sufficient to defeat demoralised Russian forces – themselves facing more and more serious shortages of such materiel.
The political climate in February/March 2025
Now we have to pause. At the end of February the situation is changing daily, even hourly at times. Rather than try to make any predictions, I think it’s better to point you to some online resources that you can check daily or weekly to keep yourselves informed in such dynamic times.
I’ve mentioned both these sources previously, but here they are again.
- Jake Broe – Jake posts a video every day or two. He’s a retired US Air Force pilot, so he knows what he’s talking about in military matters, but he is also an astute political observer and commentator. His videos are closely packed with the latest updates, and he provides links with the evidence needed to back up the things he says. There are no wild claims here, just good reporting, intelligent comment and useful material. Jake is well worth hearing and following.
- Silicon Curtain – Jonathan Fink posts on Silicon Curtain as well as the shorter-form Silicon Bites. Here you’ll find great comment, opinion, and some penetrating, in-depth interviews with other key players and commentators. Every single video is well worth watching.
You will learn so much from these two excellent channels, but there’s a great deal more good material online. Try this YouTube search for recent material, but don’t believe everything you see and hear. The material turned up by the search may be true or false, checked or unchecked. Use your own judgement.
If you prefer the written form, use the same search in Google or another search engine. (Copy and paste this search or a similar one… war in ukraine 2025 latest news …into any search engine.)
See also:
- Chuck Pfarrer summarising Russia’s military failure – Kyiv Post
- Trump faces disaster, Scott Lucas interview – Times Radio
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Out of interest, Chris, do you think there’s a prophetic take on these events that Christians should be mindful of?
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To be honest, I’m somewhat wary of prophecy in terms of predicting future events. Clearly, prophecy does sometimes work like that – when the disciples said, ‘Wow! Look at these massive stones of the temple. What an amazing and glorious building!’, Jesus just replied, ‘Truly I tell you, not one of these stones will be left on top of one another, they will all be thrown down’.
That’s a clear example of that sort of prophecy. But there are deep principles underlying Jesus’ words. What he is saying is along the lines of, ‘If you want to worship the Father you must grasp the irrelevance of glorious buildings that are temporary and instead work out what it means to worship in Spirit and in Truth.
Surely the roots of the prophetic run deep. The primary purpose of the prophetic gift is to point us earthly folk to catch precious glimpses of Father’s true nature and character. And also to draw our attention to ways in which we can be more like him – feeding the hungry, binding up the broken-hearted, growing to become much more like the Son in our motives and actions! We’re a prophetic people, hopefully! We prophecy by our actions, not just our words.
Do I think we live in a corrupt world? Yes! Am I surprised at the deceit and ignorance displayed by some of our politicians? Not at all! Are these signs of the end? Maybe!
How about you, Chris? Do you think do you think there’s a prophetic take on these events that we should be mindful of? I’m only expressing my opinion here, you may have a different take and if so it will be just as valuable and relevant as mine. We all miss things and that, in part, is why we always need one another.
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