According to a report from CNN, White House officials are losing confidence that Ukraine will be able to retake all the territory Russia has captured since it invaded on February 24 as Russian forces continue to make gains in the eastern Donbas region.
Unnamed US officials told CNN that President Biden’s advisors have started debating if and how the US should start convincing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should change his definition of what “victory” will look like.
Zelensky has repeatedly stated that Ukraine’s goal is to drive Russia out of all territory it has captured since it invaded. He also has said he wants to expel Russian forces from Crimea, a territory Moscow has controlled since 2014.
But even as the US and NATO are sending more and more heavy weapons to Kyiv, the prospect of Ukraine being able to launch a sufficient counter-offensive does not seem realistic. Ukraine is taking heavy casualties, with officials admitting they are losing between 100 and 200 troops each day.
The fact that Russia would have the upper hand in the Donbas was obvious from the start of the war. But after Russian forces withdrew from areas in the north near Kyiv and Chernihiv in early April, Western officials began pushing the narrative that Ukraine can win. But over the past month, the narrative has collapsed as Ukraine is clearly outgunned.
Both US and Ukrainian officials believe that how Ukraine does on the battlefield moving forward is entirely dependent on Western military aid. “Whether Ukraine can take back these territories is in large part, if not entirely, a function of how much support we give them,” a congressional aide told CNN.
US officials told CNN that even though they have a more pessimistic assessment, the Biden administration is not pushing Ukraine to make territorial concessions to end the fighting. Since Russia invaded, the Biden administration has shown no interest in diplomacy as a potential solution, and the US’s allies have actively discouraged Ukraine from negotiating.
Change the drug the porn addict comedian is consuming now. Zelensky will change the narrative. Biden’s handlers should think in that line
How about just cutting off the funds that are keeping the war going?
They are trying but some countries are still buying russian oil
They finally figured that much out. If they really care either way, they like selling weapons.
“Unnamed US officials told CNN…,” and CNN’s fact checkers agreed.
It means escallation is the wrong strategy. Çut a deal & save the future war carnage victims.
I think that ship has passed away.
A deal is always possible. The Turks & Israeli (now mostly dissolved Government) try to be honest brokers. France also looks for opportunities. Realist who see beyond the fog make great men. The Ukrainians have to ask themselves in one to four months time when the whole Donbas is conquered, much of it in ruins; why would they want less opportunities for some favorablility? The Turks have been EU candidates since the 1990s
The Biden regime wants the war to continue to the last Ukrainian and so do the Russians. Sucks to be Ukrainian.
“Both US and Ukrainian officials believe that how Ukraine does on the battlefield moving forward is entirely dependent on Western military aid. “Whether Ukraine can take back these territories is in large part, if not entirely, a function of how much support we give them,” a congressional aide told CNN.”
See how cleverly they build the narrative? We apparently “believe” that Ukraine “can win” if and only if we buy tens of billions of $$$ of weapons from our patriotic weapons manufacturers and send them over there. See, this way, if they lose it was because we did not send enough weapons over … we were just too timid just like in Syria etc. … more weapons are always the answer.
Our peace loving democratic Reps should be so proud they supported the billions to weapons manufacturers … errr, Ukraine … bill earlier this year.
More Factual Heading:
“CNN: Biden Officials Privately Doubt Ukraine Can Hold On To The Remaining Of Its Territory”
Zelensky needs to start calling for lots of American troops in addition to more war materiel if he wants to defeat Russia.
Oh those U.S. troops who fought so bravely and lost in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan….????????? Oh they will really turn the tide against Russia, and surely China will take the opportunity to sort out who is boss in their part of the world…. Its coming if the depleated former world boss doesn’t trim its sails to the new winds blowing.
The real question is whether there will be anything left of Ukraine after all this US help. Will it be a landlocked rump, or will it disappear altogether?
Might Poland and Hungary accept slices as part of a Partition deal with Russia? It has happened before, and to Poland too.
As Kissinger warned, “it may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.”
“‘Whether Ukraine can take back these territories is in large part, if not entirely, a function of how much support we give them,’ a congressional aide told CNN.”
Asked to expand on his statement, the aide continued off mic, ‘Well gee obviously all the US government has to do is declare an emergency and convert the US economy to a weapons-centered war economy and amp up the military budget a hundred fold and send a hundred times as many weapons to ukraine immediately and forever. So duh it’s all a “function” of how much support we give them. Too bad surrender monkey traitorous Putin-loving US citizens don’t have the guts to do that so the russkies don’t take america next.’
Duh. Their immorality never ceases to amaze me. They know Ukraine can’t win, yet they continue to discourage negotiations and double down on arms shipments, as if they were in a race to kill as many Ukrainians as possible before the clock finally runs out. I thought Bush and his neocon crew deserved a special place in Hell; but now I think they need to move over and make room for Biden and his crew.
If there is a hell, there will be plenty of room for both Team Bush and Team Biden. I’m sure it will have an entire wing reserved for US presidents and their teams. I’m looking at you Blinken.
Why would they know that? The Taliban beat the Soviets, the Vietnamese beat the USA, the USA beat the British…
Duh and Double Duh!
Hahahahah! “Losing confidence”… The fact that they ever had any confidence demonstrates what Martyanov always says: the collective West is clueless, uneducated and idiotic. Ukraine never had the remotest chance of beating Russia in a war., no matter what weapons are supplied. Ukraine had all those weapons before the war, now they’re all gone along with 100,000 of their soldiers. In another 4 months, even more will die.
Oh I am sure that fools like Dstoltenburg and Nuland who constantly telling the “Brave Zelinsky” what a great commander he is for sinking that old hulk , with American armaments and hand holding…
Stalemate, you hide in your hole and have a good chance to survive you attempt to move across ground to take territory and you get shot to hell. Both sides have the same problem
Except one side has TEN TIMES THE guns & Ammo…. Plus a navy & an Air Force with hypersonic missiles. I wonder how the London bookies are laying the odds of the comedian vanquishing the Russian war machine…?????
But the other side has arty that is 10X more accurate as they say quality has a quality of its own.