Washington is saying they know the war is lost. That’s what “they’re going to have to negotiate” means. It means the Spring Offensive won’t build a land bridge to Crimea.
But they still want more and more men to go die.
RT:
Outgoing US President Joe Biden will use every opportunity to deliver more weapons to Ukraine in the final days of his administration, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan has pledged.With 50 days left, the Biden administration is working to “get Ukraine all the tools we possibly can to strengthen their position on the battlefield,” the senior official told ABC News on Sunday.
“President Biden directed me to oversee a massive surge in the military equipment that we are delivering to Ukraine so that we have spent every dollar that Congress has appropriated to us by the time that President Biden leaves office,” he said.
President-elect Donald Trump has claimed that he could end the Ukraine conflict in 24 hours after he is sworn in on January 20. Biden’s stated strategy has been to stand with Ukraine “for as long as it takes” to defeat Russia.
Kiev will eventually have to engage Moscow diplomatically, Sullivan acknowledged on Sunday, and the purpose of the US military aid is to “give Ukraine as many tools as possible so that they could go into that negotiation and feel they could achieve the outcome that they would like to see.”
They’ll eventually engage, but right now they’re doing mass press-ganging (kidnapping teenagers) and sending them to the front where they admit more than 50% of them are casualties.
It’s pretty cynical, to kill this many people. I guess these Americans all worship satan like Alex Jones says, because otherwise they would fear God. It’s one thing to cheat on your wife or to hire a hitman to torture and murder your neighbor because he poisoned your dogs. You can say “God will understand and forgive me for this.” But when you’re sending tens of thousands of young men to die in a war that you know is hopeless because you think it will be a financial benefit – and you’re openly admitting it in public, because you’re so proud of yourself – you have to assume you’re going to hell.
Sending men to kill each other is not a small thing. It should weigh very heavily on anyone. In theory, war is only supposed to happen in an existential situation. In reality, leaders do it for other reasons, sometimes. But they lie and say it’s existential. No one ever thought that Ukraine’s war against Russia was existential. The Ukraine was a part of Russia when I was born. Every leader since has been Russian-speaking (including Zelensky, who had to do a “crash course” in the Ukraine language to become the leader). Conversely, it is easy to see how Zelensky going around talking about joining NATO and putting NATO nukes on Russia’s border was seen by Russia as existential.
You can see that the deaths of soldiers do weigh heavy on Putin. You see stoicism in him. Zelensky, meanwhile, is weighted down by fear for his own life. He is always looking manic and like he’s about to have some kind of breakdown.
