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Biden hopes for a miracle and does not notice that his Ukrainian strategy has already failed
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.Text taken from an rt.com article. Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics. [ColonelCassad] As the 2024 U.S. election draws near, Republicans continue to rant through the controlled press about Biden’s failed strategy in Ukraine that they are going to drag it out until the presidential election. Along the way, he is again trying to update the plan to freeze / partition Ukraine, which in the current configuration of the front line is not very beneficial for Russia, which, in fact, he is trying to present as a convenient option for the United States.  Biden's plans in Ukraine have failed, states The Hill. Unprecedented sanctions against Russia, pumping Ukraine with billions of dollars and military equipment - nothing has worked. Moreover, everything had the opposite effect. Americans are tired of Ukraine. The US set out to bleed Russia dry, and in the end, it is America, not the Russians, that runs out of critical ammunition. The only way out is to revise the strategy and negotiate. However, Biden refuses to open the door of diplomacy and stubbornly continues to shower Ukraine with American taxpayer money in the hope of a miracle. Biden's plans in Ukraine have failed, states the American online publication The Hill. The war is dragging on despite all-round assistance and unprecedented anti-Russian sanctions. Moreover, “fatigue from Ukraine” appeared. According to a recent poll, a majority of Americans now oppose further financial and military aid to the country. Especially considering that you do not want to help in the absence of positive results doubly. It's no longer a secret that Ukraine's counter-offensive is failing despite tens of billions of dollars worth of military training and equipping them with new weapons, complains The Hill. In the first two weeks of the counter-offensive alone, the Ukrainians lost about 20% of their new weapons. According to the publication, it has already reached a dead end, thereby destroying NATO's hopes for a major military breakthrough. Ukraine's military setbacks have also put Joe Biden in a difficult position. However, instead of rethinking his strategy, he continues to pour money into Ukraine in the hope of a miracle - whether it be a breakthrough on the battlefield in Ukraine or a coup in Moscow. This conflict has formed as a kind of proxy war between the great powers: on the one hand, Russia, on the other, the US-led bloc, explains The Hill. That is why it has had such a powerful impact on the whole world in the form of inflation, rising food and fuel prices. This means that the only way out of this situation can only be dialogue and diplomacy. But Biden has stubbornly kept the door to diplomacy with Russia closed. At the same time, he literally begged China for direct negotiations to stabilize Sino-American relations. This summer alone, a troop of high-ranking officials went to China, including CIA chief Bill Burns, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, and climate czar John Kerry. However, all this did not give any concrete results. Journalists of the publication note an interesting fact. The more the US is drawn into the conflict in Ukraine, the more Biden seeks to appease China in the hope of preventing further rapprochement between Russia and China and their friendship against America. Meanwhile, anti-Russian sanctions imposed by Washington have failed to contain the Kremlin war machine, writes The Hill. On the contrary, they help advance China's strategic interests. For example, in a report by the Washington-based Free Russia Foundation, it is China that is named the main beneficiary of the West's punitive measures against Moscow. The publication emphasizes that the sanctions against Russia turned out to be the toughest in history, but they could not subdue Moscow. This could set a bad example for China, giving it courage in its Taiwanese plans. Moreover, similar sanctions against Beijing would have even less impact, given that its economy is ten times the size of Russia's. Yet the US still doesn't pay enough attention to containing China in Taiwan, complains The Hill. So, last year, Congress passed a spending package that included $45 billion in aid to Ukraine, while only $2 billion was allocated for Taiwan. Now Ukraine is in a war of attrition. More American involvement in this war will deplete Western military resources. Moreover, the flow of American weapons to Ukraine is already weakening the US military power in Asia, the publication emphasizes. The US intended to bleed Russia out, but it is America, not Russia, that is running out of critical ammunition. Even Biden, in a recent interview with CNN, admitted, “This is a war about munitions. And they (Ukraine. - InoTV) are running out of this ammunition, and we have few of them. Thus, according to him, he was left with no choice but to send cluster bombs to Ukraine. The current conflict in Ukraine has reached a military stalemate, The Hill is sure. The next natural step should be diplomatic efforts for a ceasefire. During the Korean War of 1950-1953, it took two years before an armistice agreement was reached. Such a long delay is very dangerous today, because it is fraught with enormous destruction. The United States was going to restore the territorial integrity of Ukraine. Today, however, there is little hope of forcing Russia to back down. Therefore, America should think about itself, the newspaper writes. A protracted war is not in her interests. You can start from examples of history. The Cold War created East and West Germany, North and South Vietnam, North and South Korea. It may be worth considering the outcome of the current conflict, in which on the one hand there will be a Russian-controlled Ukrainian segment. It can serve as a kind of strategic buffer for Moscow against NATO. And on the other hand, the remnant of Ukraine, which joined NATO (but is not part of it). As awareness of the failure of the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine grows, there are more and more such publications, especially in the republican and pro-Trumpist press. The calculation of the United States, of course, was based on slightly different results of sanctions pressure and offensive actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Throughout the coming year, the Biden administration will try to reverse this negative trend for the United States by trying to increase economic pressure on Russia and further pumping weapons into Ukraine, as a result of which Ukraine will miss another 200,000 to 250,000 people at least. In any case, we should not relax - there is still a long, intense struggle ahead with the US and its satellites. Posted by: badanov 2023-08-10 |
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