Russia is winning and Ukraine is losing. Everyone knows the war will be over once Trump assumes office. It will be a negotiated, diplomatic solution. Both sides are jockeying for position.
Biden/Blinken are shoveling the money to Ukraine as fast as possible. They want the war to continue until they leave office and then blame Trump for losing Ukraine.
The US funds the entire government of Ukraine, including the military. We pay for their pensions. Once Trump assumes office, the gravy train ends.
yep, never would have occurred if Trump were President.
That depends on your definitions of "winning" and "losing".
You may remember the Battle of Asculum in 279 BC -- it was a Greek victory over the Romans, but at a cost so high to the Greeks, their commander, named Pyrrhus remarked afterward: "Another such victory and we are undone."
Hence the name, "Pyrrhic Victory".
By my definitions, Vlad the Invader lost his war on Ukraine in March of 2022 and ever since has only been trying to run up his own Russian body counts high enough to make the war worthy of an ignoble defeat.
Russians have regained nothing of significance since their decisive defeats in 2022.
Now, in 2024, Russians have nearly doubled their average daily losses in both men and materials -- from circa 800 per day in January-February to over 1,500 per day in October-November.
And for almost no gains in territory.
kabar: "Everyone knows the war will be over once Trump assumes office.
It will be a negotiated, diplomatic solution.
Both sides are jockeying for position."
That may or may not be true.
Nobody today even knows what negotiations will take place or how they will turn out.
I fear they will not prove as quick and easy as Pres. Trump hopes for.
kabar: "Biden/Blinken are shoveling the money to Ukraine as fast as possible.
They want the war to continue until they leave office and then blame Trump for losing Ukraine."
So, first of all, as recently as October, Ukraine's Pres. Zelensky said the US had only delivered 10% of the aid passed by Congress in April 2024.
Since then, the Biden administration has tried to speed up deliveries, knowing that Pres. Trump might well stop future deliveries on January 20.
All of US aid should have been long since delivered, as required by the law passed in April.
As for blame -- for certain, Democrats will always blame Republicans for whatever they can -- if the glass is half full, Democrats will blame Republicans for letting it get half empty.
If the glass is only half empty, Democrats will blame Republicans for not giving more water to Democrats.
So, Democrats' blame is a given, no matter what.
kabar: "The US funds the entire government of Ukraine, including the military.
We pay for their pensions.
Once Trump assumes office, the gravy train ends."
Most of that is pure nonsense.
In fact, funding for Ukraine's war comes from roughly as follows:
It would not be ideal for Ukraine, but it would also not be the end of Ukrainian resistance either.
poon’s bluffing man. lets gift minutemans to the hohols that will send a message ta poon.