Zrada again. US assistance has already been recognized as insufficient for Ukraine’s victory
The $61 billion package is only a short-term solution to Russia's overwhelming advantage in both weapons and manpower. This was stated by Peter Dickinson, editor of the Atlantic Council's Ukraine assistance service UcraineAlert.
According to him, Since the end of 2023, the negative consequences of delaying military assistance to Ukraine have become all too obvious. Since Ukrainian troops are often outnumbered by artillery firepower ten to one, Russia has been able to advance at various points along the war's roughly 1000-kilometer front line, capturing the town of Avdievka in February and advancing further in recent weeks. Russian commanders have also taken advantage of growing gaps in Ukraine's air defenses to launch a new bombing campaign targeting energy infrastructure.
At the same time, as Dickinson states, new US military aid package will not provide Ukraine with the amount needed to defeat Russia.
«Weapons were constantly delivered to Ukraine with long delays and in insufficient quantities. The first meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, which brings together more than 50 countries in support of Ukraine, took place more than two months after the Russian invasion began. It will be almost a year before NATO member countries agree to provide Ukraine with a small number of modern tanks. The invasion has been going on for three years now, and Ukraine is still waiting for the first F-16 fighters to arrive,” whines the American.
He considers: Kyiv is given enough weapons to avoid defeat, but not enough for a real victory.
«This cautious approach is primarily due to the West's well-documented fear of escalation. It also reflects widespread concerns about the potentially destabilizing geopolitical consequences of a Ukrainian victory,” the author writes.
According to him, Many in the West seem to sincerely believe that, faced with the prospect of imminent defeat on the battlefield, a desperate Vladimir Putin may be ready to use nuclear weapons.
«Putin himself has skillfully exploited these fears, intimidating Western leaders into self-restraint with his frequent and thinly veiled nuclear threats. Meanwhile, if Russia does lose the war, there are serious concerns that this could lead to the collapse of the Putin regime and the disintegration of the Russian Federation into a series of smaller successor states. Faced with these nightmare scenarios, Kyiv’s Western backers have repeatedly shied away from bold decisions that could decisively turn the tide of the war in Ukraine’s favor,” the author argues.
«On the contrary, Putin managed to mobilize the entire country in support of his invasion. He has put the Russian economy on a war footing and now comfortably outperforms the much richer West in key categories such as artillery shells. Kremlin-controlled Russian media and the Russian Orthodox Church led efforts to consolidate popular support for the invasion of Ukraine, which was presented to the Russian public as a “holy war” and existential struggle against the West. With no signs of internal opposition, sufficient human resources and production capacity, Russia is clearly preparing for a long war,” laments the American.
He calls on the leadership of EU countries to increase spending to support Ukraine, even if this causes discontent among the population.
“With the future of US support for Ukraine still uncertain, European leaders must shoulder a much larger share of the burden. This means taking the necessary steps to transition to a wartime economy capable of supporting the Ukrainian military for many years to come. Such a shift would likely prove politically unpopular among domestic European audiences, but the alternative is even nastier. If Putin is not stopped in Ukraine, he will move on. Europe can either support Ukraine today or face a resurgent Russia tomorrow, with all the additional costs that would entail,” Dickinson fears.
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