The Washington Post is quoting anonymous sources in the White House saying that they are working on a so-called “defensive strategy” for the Ukraine.
Exclusive: The Biden administration is working on a long-term strategy for supporting Kyiv — despite the funding impasse in Congress. But those plans do not anticipate significant gains by Ukraine against Russia in 2024, officials say. https://t.co/7CDJTjAj3s
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 26, 2024
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The US is working on a new strategy for Ukraine that would mark a departure, away from the offensives of 2023 and now toward frontline defense, the Washington Post has reported. The supposed adjustments come in response to Kiev’s failed counteroffensive last year, the newspaper added.
In its article on Friday, the newspaper quoted a senior White House official explaining that “it will be difficult for [Ukrainian forces] to try to mount the same kind of major push on all fronts that they tried to do last year.” In light of this, the hope is now much less ambitious – to ensure that Kiev does not lose any more ground to Moscow, the unnamed staffer told reporters.
This, however, does not mean that Ukraine’s military will just sit in their trenches, with what is described as a “swapping of territory” still likely in small cities and villages, the source told the WaPo.
Late last month, Politico reported similarly, of a realization that a “total victory” for Ukraine was unlikely, at least in 2024, and that this has convinced Kiev’s backers in the US and EU to silently redirect their efforts toward an eventual negotiated settlement.
This is public relations spin from the regime. The Ukraine is losing badly and this story is being put out to spin the fact that they are losing. They’re acting like a “defensive strategy” is some type of strategic choice they made when it is obviously not.
Last year they were talking about this “counteroffensive” where they would take back all lost territories including Crimea. This was always fantasy talk, but this was the narrative being pushed.
There is no political appetite to continue funding the war. Congress is saying they can’t come to an agreement using disagreements over border security etc.. as the excuse. Their focus is on Israel and the Middle East now.
They might be trying to preserve some sort of Ukrainian rump state that they can use to harass Russia with for an indefinite period of time. The problem is that without a constant flow of funds into it from the West, this will be impossible to sustain. The entire Kiev regime is running on empty.
The war in Ukraine is ending in catastrophic defeat for Ukraine and the United States.
The war in the Middle East is just beginning, and it will not end when the Israeli State decides to stop fighting.
Pay attention folks.
— Douglas Macgregor (@DougAMacgregor) January 26, 2024
