Zelenskyy states Russia lost battlefield initiative in Dec 2025, arguing Ukraine has a diplomacy window before winter if sanctions pressure on Russia continues.
Anyways /uj for a second, “paradigm” has more than one definition. I think you’re using a different one than we were, which is roughly “a method or framework for thought”. A paradigm is a way of thinking about something, or a set of tools and methods used to do so. This is the definition used in the phrase “paradigm shift” and is pretty common; it overlaps with, but is different to, using “paradigm” to refer to an exceptional example of something to replicate. Saying Ukraine will be at the center of the european defense paradigm means that it will be used as a foundational point of reference when discussing defense, and its capabilities will be key to our defense strategy.
Saying Ukraine will be at the center of the european defense paradigm means that it will be used as a foundational point of reference when discussing defense, and its capabilities will be key to our defense strategy.
And again, that is meaningless unless you’re claiming you will replicate Ukraine’s defense in other places.
Nor is Ukraine “foundational”, unless you think that all of Europe is a former part of the USSR that was also the center of WWII against the Russian state of the time. If you’d like to suggest some other country that fits that “paradigm”, I’m all ears.
Ukraine isn’t foundational - it’s a proxy war now abandoned by the US that too much of Europe has decided to let anchor it.
Oh, OK. What is the replicable pattern of “defense” that is Ukraine, then?
You seem to mean strategy. Ukraine is not the center of European defense strategy, but at least that word isn’t just nonsense.
Yes, this does feel like I’m talking to a 3 year old
The beat you can do is “no u”?
Anyways /uj for a second, “paradigm” has more than one definition. I think you’re using a different one than we were, which is roughly “a method or framework for thought”. A paradigm is a way of thinking about something, or a set of tools and methods used to do so. This is the definition used in the phrase “paradigm shift” and is pretty common; it overlaps with, but is different to, using “paradigm” to refer to an exceptional example of something to replicate. Saying Ukraine will be at the center of the european defense paradigm means that it will be used as a foundational point of reference when discussing defense, and its capabilities will be key to our defense strategy.
And again, that is meaningless unless you’re claiming you will replicate Ukraine’s defense in other places.
Nor is Ukraine “foundational”, unless you think that all of Europe is a former part of the USSR that was also the center of WWII against the Russian state of the time. If you’d like to suggest some other country that fits that “paradigm”, I’m all ears.
Ukraine isn’t foundational - it’s a proxy war now abandoned by the US that too much of Europe has decided to let anchor it.