US Officials Don't Believe Ukraine Can Win the War
Despite no movement towards a peace process, US officials admit neither Ukraine nor Russia can win the war
Given the general consensus among the Western public against a peace process involving concessions to Russia, I find the following reports rather depressing: (1) that there was an agreement ready in April that both Russia and Ukraine were willing to accept; that (2) the West, with Johnson as emissary, told Zelensky not to accept said agreement (one must assume because NATO felt it could win the war at that point or cause more damage to Russia in the interim); and that (3) the US appears now to believe that “neither Russia nor Ukraine is capable of winning the war outright”.
If these US officials are to be believed, then a peace process with concessions is inevitable. In which case, the six months of war that we’ve had since the April agreement was for what purpose exactly? I have to assume it was for the same purpose the war continues on today—and that is anybody’s guess because it apparently isn’t to remove Russia from Ukraine, at least not according to US officials. I’m sure the Ukrainians would disagree.
My own cynical thoughts, coming second hand from author Nikita Petrov, is that NATO is continuing to arm Ukraine as part of an extremely successful US project (albeit not one designed) that believes they can bleed Russia and achieve regime change or eventually even the breakup of the Russian Federation—nuclear war be damned! In other words, it is a continuation of US hegemonic power and the project for a new American century.
None of this is said to dismiss Russia’s own delusions of grandeur, but let’s not forget the American version. Those who live in the halls of power think not of today but of history and their place inside it. This is as true of the Americans as it is of Putin.
What I would really like to know is what the Europeans believe in their own halls of power given these apparent realities.