Laugh till you cry wrote on Oct 1
st, 2024 at 1:22pm:
Effectively, the people of Ukraine are USA's army in a fight to dominate Russia.
There is no doubt that the people of Ukraine are effectively a proxy US army. The US will fight to the last Ukrainian. The US will not allow a peace agreement that does not make the US look like a winner.
Ukraine is armed with US weapons, missiles, intelligence, and military advice and intelligence. It is not enough.
NATO and the USA are looking weak as their power and weapons have not dominated the war and Russia is advancing.
The Ukraine war demonstrates that the USA is not dominant over a well-armed opponent.
The outcome of the Ukraine war will be a destroyed Ukraine and a much poorer Europe with depleted financial strength from the costs of war.
The fact is the US is happy to bleed Russia dry in a war fought by others; the US didn't give Ukraine sufficient arms to end the war quickly (after Russia invaded and failed to bring Ukraine to heel quickly).
Biden and NATO think Putin is bluffing about nukes, Trump isn't so sure, and would rather end the war quickly off the battlefield.
I'm with Trump on that point.
Both Russia and Ukraine are being bled by the US's drip-feed of arms to Ukraine which has entrenched a WW1-type stalemate. We don't know who will collapse first: Ukraine or Russia, with the former supported by nations with a combined GDP 40 times that of internationally-sanctioned Russia.
The cost in lives is deplorable, as always.