It’s been more than well established that Americans don’t care how many Ukrainians die in their war. But some of them have to be worried about what this is going to look like on the global stage, after they kept saying they were going to win this “war” and now it’s so obvious that Russia is going to take significantly more territory than it had initially claimed it wanted.
Someone has to be asking what the hell the plan is here.
RT:
Some people in the Biden administration are skeptical about Kiev’s ability to turn the tide of war against Russia and mount an effective counteroffensive to retake the territories lost in the past four months, CNN reported on Tuesday. They believe Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should moderate his expectations and redefine what he would consider victory against Russia, the news outlet said.
Others in the US government remain hopeful that Kiev can defy the odds, if provided enough Western weapons.
“Whether Ukraine can take back these territories is in large part, if not entirely, a function of how much support we give them,” a US congressional aide was cited as saying.
It actually doesn’t have anything to do with that. That is only going to draw it out longer. The idea of the Ukraine somehow managing to create an entirely new military, and then train it, and then use it to conquer territory that is now peacefully under Russian control – this is just so absurd it’s beyond words.
Every time the US sends a new package, the Ukraine is on the verge of collapse. That is the fact. These donations from the West are only keeping the Ukraine from being forced to surrender.
The skeptics are concerned that even with Western military aid, Kiev will not be able to effectively take on Russia on the battlefield, the report said. Ukraine has suffered heavy losses both in manpower and weapons, as its forces have been repelled from key areas in the east in recent weeks.
The more advanced arms that Kiev’s backers can provide are NATO-standard and not familiar to Ukrainian troops, who need time to train and learn how to use them. Meanwhile, the stockpile of Soviet-era weapons that nations in Eastern Europe possess has been dwindling.
Zelensky pledged to continue fighting until Russian troops are pushed back to where they were before the offensive started in late February. Kiev expected the Western support to give it a stronger position to eventually negotiate a peace settlement, and Washington believed it would ensure a strategic defeat for Russia.
I don’t understand who believed that.
General Milley has said he doesn’t believe it.
Lloyd Austin is literally black.
CNN’s sources say the Biden administration did not intend to put pressure on Kiev to adjust its policies, mirroring public statements by US officials. Even if the advice of the skeptics is heeded, Zelensky is not expected to formally relinquish Ukrainian claims on lost territory, the report said.
Zelensky is just a puppet of the State Department. He will do whatever they tell him to do. He’s not a military man or a government man, he’s a TV actor who was installed by Jewish oligarchs, and he has no experience with any of this or any idea what is going on. He is just following orders.
He of course doesn’t care if the Ukraine is completely destroyed, because he can just go back to his own country of Israel in a helicopter full of cash, as Western Ukraine is transferred back to Poland.