The flow of Western military aid to Ukraine is waning. President Putin will feel emboldened. But Sean Bell explains that there are options to swing the balance in Ukraine's favour for the West - if its leaders are willing to call Russia's bluff.
  • APassenger@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    As near as I can tell, the West doesn’t want Ukraine to fall, but it’s afraid of it winning, too. Then there’s the matter of many countries not wanting to carry costs, risks, or political capital.

    I wish this was different.

    • DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      but it’s afraid of it winning

      No, the US leadership is dealing with a bully with nuclear weapons, sure we can take a chance, do some surgical attacks to limit any launches and such, but that would be a big time escalation, and we’re not there yet, and that escalation would mean a lot more people would die, a lot lot more.

      The main strategy has been to try to strangle Russia economically and isolate them to wear down the populace and hopefully force either a retreat or a change in leadership, all while providing Ukraine with what they needed to halt Russia’s advances. However, thanks to the MAGA/Putin alliance they have successfully stalled our resupply efforts to Ukraine, thus giving Putin more time to keep pushing and costing Ukraine lives that they can’t waste while fighting a numerically superior opponent.

      So ultimately Trump’s lunatics are who aren’t afraid of winning, they don’t want Ukraine to win, because Trump is Putin’s cock holster and they are Trump’s cult who follow his signals for everything and anything. There’s no fear of winning, only betrayal and treasons prolonging the problem.