It’s time. Actually, it’s past time.
Back in August, Joe Biden sent $250 million to Ukraine for its highly touted counter offensive against Russia. This was supposed to be the turning point in the conflict.
It wasn’t. Finally, the realization that many of us had long ago has hit home.
The meeting in Brussels, less than two weeks into the campaign, illustrates how a counteroffensive born in optimism has failed to deliver its expected punch, generating friction and second-guessing between Washington and Kyiv and raising deeper questions about Ukraine’s ability to retake decisive amounts of territory.
As winter approaches, and the front lines freeze into place, Ukraine’s most senior military officials acknowledge that the war has reached a stalemate.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky had admitted his counter-offensive has failed, and the war is now in a “new phase”.
“We wanted faster results,” the Ukrainian leader said. “From that perspective, unfortunately, we did not achieve the desired results. And this is a fact,” he conceded.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg warned there could be bad news coming out about Ukraine, as fears grow of a stalemate with Russia and allies such as the U.S. debate whether to send more aid to the country.
“Wars develop in phases. We have to support Ukraine in both good and bad times. We should also be prepared for bad news,” Stoltenberg said in an interview with German broadcaster ARD on Saturday, according to Politico Europe.
Last month it was reported that the US and Germany were trying to nudge Zelenskyy to the negotiating table.
The United States and Germany want to push Ukraine toward the negotiating table to end the war with Russia, the German tabloid paper Bild reported on Friday, citing anonymous sources.
The paper said that President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz allegedly do not plan to directly put pressure on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, but instead plan to use the provision of arms to encourage a settlement.
This month it was reported that Russia offered Ukraine peace if it remained neutral.
Ukraine is running out of soldiers to feed into the chopper. Young men are fleeing the country and men aged 18-60 are banned from leaving the country.
You will remember that Obama didn’t blink an eye when Russia annexed Crimea and when Biden said he’d tolerate a “minor incursion” into Ukraine by Russia.
The area being fought over now is complicated.
“Those two regions have a lot of people who are not just Russian citizens, but also sympathetic to Russia still, unlike most of the country,” said ABC News contributor Steve Ganyard, a retired U.S. Marine colonel and former deputy assistant secretary of state. “So the reason that the Russians were able to sort of maintain puppet governments there is that they had people who are sympathetic to Russia and to their cause.”
The logical thing is to negotiate. But no. The “If you oppose supporting the war in Ukraine you support Putin” thing isn’t working any more so they’re getting down deep into the mud. So of course, the Biden regime wants more war and now as support for pouring endless unaccountable money into Ukraine wanes, has begun to threaten Americans. Lloyd Austin warns that Putin would invade NATO nations.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned Congress on Tuesday during a private briefing that if they do not pass more aid to Ukraine, it would “very likely” lead to U.S. troops fighting a war in Europe.
“If [Vladimir] Putin takes over Ukraine, he’ll get Moldova, Georgia, then maybe the Baltics,” House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) told The Messenger, after Austin and other senior Biden administration officials briefed House lawmakers on their request for more aid for Ukraine.
The disgrace known as John Kirby echoed the same.
“If you think the cost of supporting Ukraine is high now, just imagine how much higher it’s gonna be, not just in national treasure but in American blood!”
This is utter nonsense. NATO is NATO. Putin isn’t about to take it on. Russia is already quite weak and has lost a great many of its military, some estimates say 300,000. Ukraine has lost 70,000 troops with another 120,000 wounded.
But someone wants this war. They want it badly. We’re likely minting more billionaires among the $113 billion we’re sent. What really grates me is that Biden and his democrat ilk are more concerned about Ukraine’s borders than our own. I wholeheartedly support the position of not another penny for Ukraine until our borders are secure.
The Ukraine conflict is not winnable. It has become another Vietnam; another Afghanistan being fought by proxy.
Joe Biden has “been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”
The streak continues.
UPDATE
Let me add a reminder. Democrats keep crying about this being a “fight for democracy.” From where I sit, Ukraine doesn’t look much like a democracy. Some leaders in Ukraine are accusing Zelenskyy of turning into a Putin.
“At some point we will no longer be any different from Russia, where everything depends on the whim of one man,” Klitschko said in a new interview with the German news outlet Der Spiegel.
They accuse Zelenskyy of lying to the people of Ukraine
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko has accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of lying about how Ukraine is faring in its ongoing war with Russia.
Klitschko said during a recent interview with Swiss newspaper 20 Minuten that he agreed with the assessment of General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, the Ukrainian military’s commander-in-chief, who said during an interview with The Economist last month that the conflict had gone “into a stalemate.”
Zelensky rejected Zaluzhnyi’s assessment days after his remarks were published, saying during a press conference on November 4 that the war was anything but “a stalemate” and accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of treating his troops “like meat” and allowing them to be slaughtered.
Klitschko, a former world heavyweight boxing champion before entering politics, said during his 20 Minuten interview that Zelensky had been “euphorically” lying about Ukraine’s standing in the war while praising Zaluzhnyi for telling “the truth.”
“[Zaluzhnyi] told the truth,” Klitschko said. “Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth…Of course, we can euphorically lie to our people and our partners. But you can’t do that forever. Some of our politicians have criticized Zaluzhnyi for the clear words—wrongly. I stand behind him.”
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