When Moscow sent Russian forces into eastern Ukraine in February 2022, it did so without any plan of conquest or intention to permanently control Ukrainian territory. As Western military observers pointed out at the time, the Russian force that intervened was far too small and incapable for any mission beyond limited intervention for a brief period. In fact, Western observers predicted Russian forces would soon run out of ammunition, equipment, and soldiers.
The rationale for Moscow’s limited military commitment was obvious. Moscow originally sought neutrality for Ukraine as a solution to Ukraine’s hostility toward Russia and its cooperation with NATO, not territorial subjugation or conquest. Moscow believed, not unreasonably, that a neutral Ukrainian nation-state could be a cordon sanitaire that would shield Russia from NATO and, at the same time, provide NATO with insulation from Russia.
The biden regime’s strategy toward Moscow, if it can be called a strategy, consisted of organizing coercive measures across the Atlantic Alliance—economic, diplomatic, and military—to harm Russia fatally and destabilize its government. Like all of ol' joe’s foreign policies, this unrealistic approach failed, and NATO, the framework for its implementation, is now fatally weakened, not Russia.
Nearly 3 yrs of judas joe’s practically limitless funding for modern weapons and support in the form of spaced-based surveillance, intelligence, and reconnaissance for a proxy war designed to destroy Russia makes this approach laughable. Chancellor merkel’s admission that the Western sponsored Minsk Accords were really designed to buy time for Ukraine to build up its military power is enough for Moscow to reject Western promises to ever respect, let alone enforce, Ukrainian neutrality.
As a result, Washington’s brand has been grievously diminished, even enfeebled. Corrupt biden’s belief that with the combined might of NATO’s scientific-industrial power, it could achieve a strategic victory over Russia by arming Ukrainians to do the fighting for them backfired badly. Like FDR in 1939, who expected the Germans to end up in a stalemate with the Anglo-French Armies on the model of WWI, the biden regime did not consider the possibility that Ukraine would lose the fight.
Ukraine joe, and our left-wing/democrat Congress are on a similar course with profound consequences, but today, horrifically destructive modern weapons make the war option suicidal. Put another way, 21st-century problems cannot be solved with the use of 20th-century plans and policies. Instead of framing another false narrative to justify funding for a corrupt Ukrainian state that is collapsing, Washington and its allies should be thinking about the emerging a new, costly cold war against Moscow, Beijing, Tehran, and a host of countries.
There is little doubt that Russia’s senior military leaders have already concluded that Russian control of the Dnieper River is essential to Russian national security. In addition to annexing historically Russian cities like Odessa and Kharkiv, Moscow will almost certainly insist on a modern demilitarized zone from the Dnieper River to NATO’s eastern border to prevent the reemergence of a hostile military force in Western Ukraine. Whether the Poles, Hungarians, or Belarusians decide to engage Moscow in discussions regarding Ukrainian territory with historic connections to their countries is unknown, but the imminent collapse of the Ukrainian state and armed forces will no doubt inform such discussions.
“We are the most powerful nation in the world, in the history of the world. We can take care of both of these wars" said incompetent biden. Wrong AGAIN! America’s resources are not limitless. Our power is constrained. In Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America, the American brand has been damaged. Americans need and should demand a sober-minded, intelligent and honesty analysis of the facts from those who want to lead us. They should be compelled to identify the US’ true national interests; a process that should also identify the political and cultural realities that are not Washington’s to change.
Different but related:
https://thefederalist.com/2024..../04/24/media-spin-ri
https://www.americanthinker.co....m/blog/2024/04/u_s_h
https://patriotpost.us/opinion..../106132-the-world-is
https://freebeacon.com/biden-a....dministration/watch-