There is now a report in the Financial Times from so-called “anonymous sources” saying that the Kiev regime has five months to impress the West. If they fail to make gains against Russia over this time, they may pull the plug on their support and force them into negotiations.
RT:
Ukraine has five months to demonstrate some “advances” to the US and other Western backers, to convince them of its plans for the conflict with Russia, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing several European and American officials.
Washington is entering an election cycle and has to show that the massive military support the US and its allies have been providing to Ukraine has not been in vain, the paper also said.
“It is important for America to sell this war as a successful one, as well as for domestic purposes to prove that all of those aid packages have been successful in terms of Ukrainian advances,” a European official told the FT.
The polls show that public support for Ukraine is waning in the US, and President Biden’s administration has to show that the tens of billions of dollars it spent on assistance for Kiev made a major difference on the frontlines, the media outlet said.
According to FT sources, Washington believes the next five months are critical to the outcome of the conflict. “If we get to September and Ukraine has not made significant gains, then the international pressure on [the West] to bring them to negotiations will be enormous,” another source told the FT, on condition of anonymity.
The Ukraine might not even have five months left. Obviously, nobody can predict with 100 percent certainty what is gong to happen, but their alleged counteroffensive did not materialize and they’ve mostly been forced out of Bakhmut. They only occupy a very small area of the city now.
Just the fact that we are seeing this type of story reach the pages of FT is proof that there are people on the inside trying to find an exit out of this mess. They are finally recognizing what myself and many others have been saying for months. That this war is unwinnable and unsustainable. They should have taken an “L” on this a long time ago.
