Three years after the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, citizens from Western Europe have stopped believing that Russia can be defeated.
Despite a crippling economy and more than a million deaths, Russia is believed to have the cards on the battlefield. More and more influencers in the west are starting to claim that Ukraine is sucking up much-needed taxpayer money.
However, these issues are self imposed by Ukraine’s western “allies”, specifically by the USA, who have never allowed Ukraine to attack its opponent.
On Sunday night, a report published by the Wall Street Journal claimed that the Pentagon blocked Ukraine from launching its missiles into deep Russian territory.
The block primarily focuses on US-supplied long-range missiles, ordered in person by Elbridge Colby, who serves as the Pentagon’s undersecretary for policy. However, it also extends to European-made missiles which use U.S intelligence.
This is not the first time it has happened. The U.S, even under the Biden administration, carries a long history of denying Ukraine a major strategic victory.
The deliveries of the first weapons were slow, as Americans claimed long-range missiles in Ukrainian hands would lead to “an escalation” of the situation.
At the same time, the U.S continued to supply Ukraine with defence systems. In other words, Ukraine was allowed to defend itself, but not to attack an opponent looking for an absolute destruction of the Ukrainian state.
Many Americans credit their country for helping Ukraine in weapon deliveries, but few mention that they benefitted the American economy, with many of them only touching upon the defensive end of the war industry.
Starlink, which operates both in Russian and in Ukraine, was pulled out during a Ukrainian counter-offensive back in the first year of the war. The result was utter chaos and the destruction of Ukrainian war tactics on the battlefield.
Under Donald Trump, the US-Ukrainian relationship has only deteriorated. While Ukraine is pulling off a heroic counter-offensive on its ground against Russian troops, the U.S have become their most unreliable partner.
Trump repeatedly pushed for a “peace agreement” between the two parties, while requesting concessions only from one side, the defendant – Ukraine.
Trump famously told President Zelenskyy that “he does not have the cards”, claiming that Crimea should be recognized as Russian by Ukraine, in addition to conceding several contested territories in Eastern Ukraine.
Trump went as far as inviting Putin, who has an ICJ arrest warrant in place against him, onto U.S. territory, with an official visit to Anchorage, Alaska. By then, it had become obvious that Trump served Putin, as the latter was comfortable in taking questions from journalists while trampling on his servant.
While Trump thinks he is achieving peace as he aims for a Putin-Zelenskyy summit, he is the reason that U.S. diplomacy has become synonymous with a circus show back in Russia.
As further proof of his flip-flopping, two days ago, Trump posted tweets which seemed to support Ukraine, by the end of the weekend he had halted the delivery of several Patriot missile systems, claiming that the U.S. stockpile was running low.
Trump’s associates are the first to blame Ukraine for its unwillingness to negotiate with Russia. Vice-President J.D Vance even claimed that “even in WW2, the war ended through negotiations”.
Both Trump and Vance have repeatedly claimed that Ukraine cannot win this war, and regularly frame an image that Ukraine is gradually losing land, while Russia will inevitably win. The truth could not differ more: Russia has claimed less than 3 per cent additional land in three years.
Due to slower developments on the front throughout this year, several people would claim that there is a stagnation on the front, which is why Ukraine would have to accept a ceasefire, if not a peace agreement in which Russian-controlled territories would be annexed by Russia.
What this forgets is that the front has not advanced not because of Ukraine’s short-comings, but because of the several unfair limitations imposed on Ukraine.
The long-range missile restrictions are not the first of its kind. Until a few months ago, the U.S. would only allow Ukraine to defend itself, but never to attack on Russian land.
By definition, this is a written request of assisted suicide. No war can be won purely through defense. When Ukraine was allowed to strike, several counter-offensive turned out to be successful, as Ukrainian drones have continued to strike Russia’s refineries and other key infrastructures that fuel Russia’s war economy.
It is common sense to allow Ukraine to strike wherever it needs to, but Trump’s camp and the U.S. have never wanted a Ukrainian victory.
Trump’s goal is not American, but his own. For his business interests, he needs the war to end so he can start trading with Ukraine again, but with a sympathetic Russia. He has tried several times to stop Russian sanctions, with the clear intent of resuming trade. This is also why Trump keeps giving Putin “two weeks”, which by now have become a clear time-wasting technique.
Trump is Putin’s medium, a manchild with the most powerful position in world politics. This is also why the U.S. have become less and less meaningful on the ground: Ukraine learned that the U.S. are not only an unreliable ally, but complicit in Russia’s ethnic cleansing of Ukraine.
If Ukraine has allies, then they will allow her to strike anytime, anywhere. After three years, too many lives have been lost, while Russia continues to ignore all human rights, war crime after war crime.
It is not only in Ukraine’s but also Europe’s interest to win this war, which can only be done by supplying Ukraine with everything it demands. Russia cannot win this war: It could not even defeat Ukraine with the help of North Korea, Laos, Iran and other puppets.
If Ukraine is granted everything it asks, a victory won’t be a matter of “if”, but a matter of “when”. The claims that the U.S. or the West did nearly enough to supply Ukraine the sufficient tools to win this war are not only ridiculous, they are an insult to all the victims of this war.
As Ukraine celebrated on Sunday its National Flag Day, and of Independence of the Soviet Union, it deserves better than being continuously backstabbed by Russian agent Donald Trump.
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