Joe Biden has a long track history in relation to Ukraine. Sent by Barack Obama to essentially supervise America’s war there he has retained a morbid interest in pursuing that war ever since. Now that it has become clear that that war is being lost at an inconvenient time every effort is being made to keep the regime and its hapless army in place till Biden exits. It would not look good in his bio if the Ukraine war was lost on his watch. What kind of a legacy would that be?
Imagine the situation as it exists now. The Ukrainian army is down to forcibly snatching men off the street, giving them a few weeks training and then sending them to the most dangerous positions near the front lines. It is no exaggeration to call these men cannon-fodder. It is known that the most highly trained troops are being kept in reserve while the newbies are delivered to face the ‘meat grinder’ as best they can. It is highly unlikely they will even see a Russian soldier. The last known estimate of life expectancy for the average newbie arrival was around four hours. It is bad enough when the Ukrainian army is holding its own against the Russians. But totally cruel when the war is clearly lost and the whole exercise is just to get Joe to the exit reputation relatively unblemished.
It was known from relatively near the start how this would end. As soon as the western sanctions regime failed to weaken Russia, and the global majority refused to get on side with the western powers, Russia was always going to win. The Russian simply had an overwhelming preponderance of the resources required and in every regard. With over 1,000 km of frontline it was always going to take some time. But the end result was never in doubt once it was clear that Russia’s income stream would remain unaffected by the attacks made upon it by the West.
Neither could Russia afford to lose, far too much was at stake regarding its national security. The only thing that could have stopped Russia winning would have been direct intervention in Ukraine by the western powers via NATO. That option was barred right at the start due to the inevitability of a wider war erupting, quite possibly leading to an all-out nuclear war with Russia if that fateful step was taken. This was not from lack of trying by Zelensky and his minions. His recently unveiled ‘Victory Plan’ pleads for this as well as an immediate invite into NATO and the West guiding missiles deep into Russia.
With no NATO invite, no direct western military involvement in Ukraine and no strikes deep inside Russia Zelensky’s plan completely collapses. Nothing apart from these refused requests is going to significantly change the trajectory of the war. Even if Zelensky hangs on to a fraction of the already shrinking area of incursion within the Kursk region of Russia, even if the fabled F16s start to go on missions at long last, even if another thousand tanks and missiles are provided… Russia can more than match everything. The war is lost. There is no hope whatsoever for the Ukrainian regime’s victory. All such hope is fantastical wishful thinking and a willful state of denial.
So why are we now in this absurd position where Russia is clearly moving forward taking ever more land in a steady grinding down of the Ukrainian opposition with no sign of calls for talks to end this? The policy of western leaders is clearly to encourage Ukraine to fight to the last Ukrainian while the cause is lost without any possible shadow of a doubt. There are no miracles in such a one-sided war. Besides all else Russia has massive air superiority, superiority of ammunition and missile supply and a fast-expanding army able to replenish itself and provide regular rotation.
Ukraine cannot possibly hope for divine intervention. So what now?
The Ukrainian army by its own admission is near exhaustion. It’s best troops have either left the battlefield dead or wounded over the last two and a half years or are being held in reserve while the rookies are pushed forward to their inevitable slaughter. Meanwhile Zelensky’s decree prohibiting talking to the Russians stands and no western politicians other than Viktor Orban of Hungary and Robert Fico of Slovakia are willing to talk with them. This while the compassion-worthy, mostly quite elderly, Ukrainian men dragooned into the army and sent to die will not die for Ukraine, they will die only to save the reputation of Joe Biden and nothing more. Talks to end the lost war of the West should have begun long ago and the chances in Minsk and Istanbul should not have been squandered. Now upwards of a hundred thousand Ukrainians will certainly have died by the time Joe Biden leaves the White House in one of the greatest and most sickening political scandals of modern times.
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