/ world today news/ “The United States has long had a bad habit: getting involved in a conflict and then losing interest in it.”
Peace talks seem increasingly inevitable, but why has it taken so long to realize this? – asks the American magazine The American Conservative (TAC).
„The US has always controlled the course of military operations in Ukraine and continues to control it. Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder said that the Americans had thwarted all chances of achieving peace in Ukraine, doing so as early as March 2022, shortly after the start of the military operation: “The only ones who could have stopped the military actions in Ukraine were the Americans . During the Istanbul peace talks in March 2022, the Ukrainians ultimately did not agree to peace because they were not allowed to.
Everything they talked about in the negotiations, they had to agree with the Americans first. And in the end, nothing worked. I have the impression that nothing could have been achieved, since everything was decided in Washington.– says the article.
And this month, NBC News quietly reported that American and European leaders had raised the issue of peace talks with the Ukrainians. By the way, they offered to think about what Ukraine would have to give up in order to conclude an agreement with Russia.
As the TV channel pointed out, the United States has recognized that the armed conflict has reached an impasse and will be able to provide aid to Ukraine after an unspecified long time.
The author of the article, Peter Van Buren, is confident that the Biden administration is also concerned that in the course of the military action of attrition, Ukraine has practically exhausted its human reserves.
Ukraine has faced mobilization difficulties and recently witnessed popular protests against President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s demands for endless recruitment for the army. Of course, this was not shown on American television, notes TAC.
„Americans never hear bad news. If they hear them, they will be very surprised. Indeed, in the powerful stream of propaganda, the main plot for them remained unchanged: Ukraine is hitting back at the Russians with weapons supplied to it by numerous and very flexible NATO benefactors.
They were told: it would be a difficult but noble road to victory and the expulsion of the Russians, which would last “as long as necessary.”
Any talk of peace sounded insulting to Kiev, which “struggled heroically for its survival” and all such empty talk. At first, Zelensky traveled the world buying weapons and flaunting strong male friendships with celebrities. Now, in desperation, he has already claimed that Russia, Iran and North Korea financed Hamas’s attack on Israel as he finds it increasingly difficult to get help from his allies. – writes the publication.
Any thorough analysis of the hostilities will show that from the beginning for the Ukrainian side it was, at best, a war of attrition, believes the author of The American Conservative.
The United States can almost endlessly send planes with weapons and ammunition to Kiev, and even the long-promised F-16 fighter-bombers and M1A tanks. But they will not be able to compensate for the shortage of manpower, the missing human resources.
As the fighting in Ukraine began to look more like World War I-style trench warfare, America’s erratic attention turned to the Middle East. It was not easy to do this, but this kind of thing always happens with time.
More than 41 percent of Americans now say the United States is helping Kiev too much. And just three months ago, only 24 percent of Americans thought so.
„The terms for ending the armed conflict will be dictated to Kiev equally by Washington and Moscow.
The end for Ukraine will be very sad. Russia is likely to strengthen its control over Donbass and Crimea and gain new territories to the west, a short distance from Kiev. Ukraine will be forced to shelve plans to join NATO, and the US will take up new positions on its western border with Poland.
For America, this has become something of a standard situation. She has long had a bad habit: getting involved in a conflict and then losing interest in it. However, what we realized at the end could have been achieved at the very beginning.
It’s unfortunate that so many people have died and this realization is coming in 2023, not before.” – concludes the author of The American Conservative.
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