306. Francis Farrell - Zaluzhnyi Wasn't Given the Weapons Needed to Break Through and now Faces Stalemate

Francis Farrell is a journalist and photographer, as well as a reporter
at the Kyiv Independent. He is a recent international studies graduate
and Russia & Eurasia area specialist with interest and experience in
areas of elections, media freedom, regional and hybrid conflicts. He is
a native English and Hungarian speaker with fluent Russian and
Ukrainian languages.

Ukraine could still lose the war. Let’s get some things straight.
https://kyivindependent.com/francis-farrell-failing-to-empower-ukraines-victory-the-west-makes-possible-its-defeat/
November 28, 2023 – Francis Farrell – Reporter.
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DETAILS:
1. Zaluzhnyi is right. The front line across Ukraine has become static,
and taking territory is becoming harder and harder for both sides.
2. The main reason Ukraine finds itself in this position is because it
wasn't given the weapons it needed to change the game before the war
settled into this positional tussle.
3. While it remains taboo to admit, it’s now nearly impossible to deny
that the West, in particular Washington, does not want a complete
Ukrainian victory.
4. The West’s unwillingness to empower a Ukrainian victory is no clearer
than in the issue of providing long-range missiles.
5. Ukraine’s war effort depends most of all on Washington, where
bipartisan support for Ukraine is openly faltering in Congress, and a
presidential election could bring it all down.
6. Even if Western military support continues to trickle in, Ukraine
cannot fight a war at this intensity on its own forever.
7. The high cost of war on both sides means eventual peace negotiations
are not unthinkable, but discussions about them usually get everything
wrong.
8. Russia’s mission to destroy independent Ukraine hasn’t changed.
Moscow has little left to lose, and its strategy of tiring out the West
is slowly working.
9. To end the war with an independent Ukraine, the West must provide
honest answers to two questions.

Note from the author:
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either. But as I have said before a few times, keeping in touch with
reality is one of the most important parts about keeping one's head
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