Looks like the paths of the West and Zelensky are increasingly diverging, and nobody wants to give him money anymore.
Zelensky may persuade Congress to ante up more money for the war. But this could also be his last hurrah. He may get a slimmed down package and sent away. It is unlikely he will return.
A real breakthrough did not happen, and Ukraine chewed up most of its strategic reserves. Two important brigades, the 25th Air Mobile and the 82nd Air Assault, lost so many men and so much equipment on the Zaphorize front, much of it supplied by NATO, that they became combat-ineffective and were withdrawn.
Reports say that Ukraine is losing more than 1,000 men a day – sometimes close to 2,000 – with little to show for it.
The US and some of its NATO partners let it be known they didn’t approve of Ukraine’s military tactics, although for the most part the tactics were built around NATO computer simulations and massive intelligence support.
If I recall correctly, a similar dynamic played out with the regime US was propping up in south Vietnam. When US decided they wanted the war to end, they found that the regime would have none of it, and eventually the CIA had to do a coup to put a compliant regime in power.
I was just about to comment this. It is very similar. Ukraine is very economically and militarily dependent on the NATO imperialists, so it would be very easy to orchestrate regime change.
This might actually be one of the reasons they got rid of Reznikov recently, this removes a layer between NATO and Ukrainian military. Reznikov has military background, but the new clown they replaced him with doesn’t. Now NATO has direct access to Ukrainian military.
Holy shit
something, something, history repeats as a farce :)