Unlike western pundits I don’t claim to read Putin’s mind.
Of course President Biden declared victory in back in July. No further aid is necessary.
President Biden on Thursday declared that Russian President Vladimir Putin “has already lost the war” in Ukraine . . .“Putin has a real problem, how does he move from here? What does he do?” Mr. Biden said when asked about the timeline of the war. “There is no possibility of him winning the war in Ukraine.”
Seriously? Why would you read a posted article that is being discussed? That’s an odd way to be a part of a discussion. But Ukraine doesn’t really produce artillery shells, but they say that will change by the second half of this year when they’ll start producing 155mm NATO standard rounds. But I don’t know how many. They’ve been receiving them and buying them from other countries. Not just the US.
The air war is going to heat up even more over there. Yesterdays BBC reports on combat attacks, per the Ukrainian MOD, had over 100 Russian glide bomb air strikes against focused Ukrainian positions. Looks like Ukraine is going after them at the bases to try and counter their ability to launch these airstrikes.
Blinken’s statement is a pre-emptive strike against any peace settlement. Blinken knows that Russia will never agree to let the Zelensky regime survive as a member of NATO.
The statement is best viewed as a cynical attempt to keep Ukraine fighting until after the November election.