Posted on 12/29/2023 7:49:31 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
With U.S. and European aid to Ukraine now in serious jeopardy, the Biden administration and European officials are quietly shifting their focus from supporting Ukraine’s goal of total victory over Russia to improving its position in an eventual negotiation to end the war, according to a Biden administration official and a European diplomat based in Washington. Such a negotiation would likely mean giving up parts of Ukraine to Russia.
The White House and Pentagon publicly insist there is no official change in administration policy — that they still support Ukraine’s aim of forcing Russia’s military completely out of the country. But along with the Ukrainians themselves, U.S. and European officials are now discussing the redeployment of Kyiv’s forces away from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s mostly failed counteroffensive into a stronger defensive position against Russian forces in the east, according to the administration official and the European diplomat, and confirmed by a senior administration official. This effort has also involved bolstering air defense systems and building fortifications, razor wire obstructions and anti-tank obstacles and ditches along Ukraine’s northern border with Belarus, these officials say. In addition, the Biden administration is focused on rapidly resurrecting Ukraine’s own defense industry to supply the desperately needed weaponry the U.S. Congress is balking at replacing.
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Russia has been unequivocal, there’s nothing to negotiate.
They’re not interested.
Brandon/Biden has always been in cahoots with Putin.
And Xi.
While I am opposed to the US funding most of the war (the EU should be funding most of it) it would be interesting to see how much impact the bolstering of Ukrainian Air Forces by Dutch F-16’s would have. Would they turn the tide as air power has shown to be decisive in the past or would they fall prey to the new cheaper, swarming drone technology that has been so effective combined with shoulder fired anti-tank missles? It may take future conflicts to find out but the focus of defense appropriations will widen before narrowing again on what actually works.
I’ve been checking the map, and the Russians are continually moving west. The Ukrainians are conscripting old men and women. Russia’s prepared to do this for another five years. The American taxpayer isn’t.
Yeah; it would be like going into that Senate hearing room without a HAZMAT suit.
The Neocons need the war OUT OF THE NEWS through the November Elections. The problem is that they do not control what happens in Ukraine, only Russia controls that, and Russia is not about to lift a finger to help the Neocons...
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