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Originally Posted by Pierre
This is the crux of it.
After Ukraine’s early successes and Russia’s early embarrassing losses, and the exposure of Russia’s aging military equipment, poorly maintained, poorly equipped etc etc.
The narrative was, keep Ukraine supplied and Russia will burn themselves out.
But Russia haven’t burnt themselves out, they are re-equipping, and have not been pushed back……..at all. Ukraine have failed to make any real inroads in the past 12 months, they’ve been given an astronomical amount of money and have depleted the West’s ordnance stocks.
I’m not saying Russia will win, but Ukraine won’t win either.
To paraphrase Blackadder, Zelenskyy has managed to move his drinks cabinet two inches further East in the last year.
This conflict needs to be concluded around the table, as it is obvious it will not be concluded on the battlefield, and Trump is 100% right.
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Thanks to Congress freezing support for Ukraine, Ukraine has not been sufficiently supplied. So the Russians have not burnt themselves out and have actually rebuilt themselves a bit.
I'm struggling to see how just capitulating to Putin will bring peace. What makes you and Trump confident Russia won't come back for another bite of the Ukranian cherry? They have a track record on this.