Biden officials privately doubt that Ukraine can win back all of its territory

CNN ^ | 6/28/22 | Natasha Bertrand

[JonPreston]

White House officials are losing confidence that Ukraine will ever be able to take back all of the land it has lost to Russia over the past four months of war, US officials told CNN, even with the heavier and more sophisticated weaponry the US and its allies plan to send.

Advisers to President Joe Biden have begun debating internally how and whether Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should shift his definition of a Ukrainian “victory” – adjusting for the possibility that his country has shrunk irreversibly.

[kiryandil]

I expect Biden to push Ukraine to drag it out past November to prevent the blowback.

Doc Jill found blowback this morning after breakfast.

The Short Bus One changing table gets a real workout, daily.

[CarolinaReaganFan]

cnn throwing Brandon and Z under the bus...sad for them

[Jim Noble]

They CAN win back their territory - when they can occupy Moscow and impose a new government.

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

Which also means that the 40 billion for weapons (SPIT) was nothing more than laundered money for politicians off shore bank accounts!! WHY when Rand Paul wanted accountability was EVERYONE SCREAMING we don’t have time for that!!!

[JonPreston]

Wrong. NATO expansion started this war and that’s on Biden and his Neocons.

[Seruzawa]

Funny how few of the FR Uke Gang have enlisted to go fight the evil Putin.

[JonPreston]

Any day now!

[McGruff]

If we stayed out of Ukraine’s affairs in 2014 all this would have been avoided.

[kiryandil]

and with Macron’s oil statement today it didn’t go well.

Are you talking about The Mighty Russian Oil Price Cap that the economic children of the West are dreaming about?

[Carriage Hill]

Our Treasury Dept’s printing presses are already beginning to print-up the TRILLIONS to store on pallets in the govt warehouses, of which a small portion will go to rebuild the country, after all the pay-offs are made.

[Petrosius]

Wrong. NATO expansion started this war and that’s on Biden and his Neocons.

Then why does not Russia go back home now that Ukraine says that they are no longer seeking NATO membership? Russia wants Ukrainian land, plain and simple.

[BenLurkin]

The Ukraine is attacking towards Kherson. If (big if, I know) they can drive the Russians back across the Dnieper, Odessa will not fall. If the lines remain approximately where they are now (NOT a big if) then Odessa will not fall.

[kiryandil]

Funny how few of the FR Uke Gang have enlisted to go fight the evil Putin.

[kiryandil]

If the lines remain approximately where they are now (NOT a big if) then Odessa will not fall.

Yes, that's true.

[Night Hides Not]

LOL, more like floating balloons.

[Petrosius]

If we stayed out of Ukraine’s affairs in 2014 all this would have been avoided.

You have it backwards. It was Russia who was interfering with Ukrainian affairs when they first tried to block the EU-Ukrainian agreement and then took Crimea and Donbas when they could not get their way. All of this is on Russia.

[kiryandil]

Good analysis.

[kiryandil]

"Das war pigs"

[Erik Latranyi]

Which also means that the 40 billion for weapons (SPIT) was nothing more than laundered money for politicians off shore bank accounts!! WHY when Rand Paul wanted accountability was EVERYONE SCREAMING we don’t have time for that!!!

Ukraine losing its eastern portion to Russia was going to happen, so before the corruption spigot was turned off for Biden and other western politicians that made bank off Ukraine for a decade, they decided to go for one last money grab via weapons sales.

Russian military spending in 2021- $66 billion

Ukraine military spending in 2022 - $50 billion+

[mac_truck]

That’s someone who doesn’t care how many Ukrainians have to die in the process.