Zelensky is desperate, how long will Ukraine be able to hold on, with the USA now giving only lip service?
President Volodymyr Zelensky gave a very crude interview to the Washington Post, a true cry of despair from a man who believed in the USA and who now finds himself abandoned to himself, all in an empty and abandoned building. A very clear description.
Now the war is making itself felt, but the betrayal is even more so. The war proceeded in the hope that the USA would continue to guarantee support, as initially done and as promised several times: “We will be at Ukraine's side until the end,” Biden said. Only words…
Congress's delay in approving a $60 billion military aid package was a costly disappointment for Ukraine, Zelensky said. Giving credit to the GOP majority in the US Congress is just the latest hypocrisy: in politics it's about giving something away, and Biden could very well obtain approval for financial support for Kiev by giving in on controls on illegal immigration. But the policy of open borders with Mexico is more important for the Dems than the whole of Ukraine and a few hundred thousand deaths.
The army could not plan future operations, they don't know what to do. At the same time, reserves of missile ammunition are running out. No airplane umbrella. The 155 mm projectiles are now running out.
Not only that: the White House would like Ukraine to stop attacks on Russian energy infrastructure because the influence of these attacks on fuel prices could lead to an increase in them and therefore to discontent among US voters, a few months before the presidential elections . After spending great words, Biden sacrifices Ukraine for the vote of Joan Smith of Chicago who perhaps spends five dollars more for a full tank.
All this reveals the true, enormous, weakness of the USA: it is a country with a government based on hypocrisy. People who are very skilled at saying one thing, and then doing the exact opposite.
The path of defeat
Kiev is starting to look more and more like Saigon, but without the tropical climate: We will see helicopters leaving Kiev on April 30, 2024 or April 30, 2025, 48 years after the fall of the capital of South Vietnam, considering that, in that case, the USA had actually committed itself for ten years before the "Vietnamization of the conflict", that is, before leaving Saigon to itself.
Likewise, the US left Afghanistan in a shameful retreat that left the country in the hands of the Taliban after 10 years of conflict and after having declared countless times that it wanted to bring democracy. In the case of Kiev, if nothing else, this retreat happens earlier, after only 24 months of concrete support. At least the fiction lasted less, but it was no less bloody for that.
Russia and China are not democratic countries, but they have a coherence of action and objectives and directly pay the price for their choices. The US government, on the other hand, is wavering and inconstant, where others pay the consequences. What will Zelensky think when, from the helicopter that will take him to safety, he sees the tens of thousands of dead on the ground, sacrificed to Washington's promises?
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