America cuts all military aid to the Ukraine with immediate effect
America cuts all military aid to the Ukraine with immediate effect
Move comes after showdown in the White House between Presidents Trump and Zelensky
I agree with the Americans.
The way I see it and have done for quite a while is this...
1. Britain has no strategic or geopolitical interest in whether the east of the Ukraine stays Ukrainian or is Russian.
2. The conflict is far more complex than is made out to be: the EU, Britain and US have pushed for the Ukraine since the 2010s to join NATO/the EU despite warnings from Russia that it wouldn't tolerate such things in its backyard. Geopolitics 101, it was never going to be tolerated.
3. Russia has already won the war and will annex the east of the Ukraine, and there's nothing that Kiev can do about it.
4. Any more money thrown at this war you may as well flush down the toilet at this point because of what I said in point 3, and that British and American taxpayers have a million other better ways to have their money spent as it should be (on themselves).
5. European countries who have neglected their defence spending - us included - are kidding themselves if they believe they can step in and arm the Ukraine or even themselves. Europe and Britain have deindustrialised and made themselves dependent on foreign steel because of insane green energy policies causing high energy prices on which you can't run a rearmament programme on. They're all delusional, just look at Germany's dependence on Russian gas.
6. British or European troops in the Ukraine must be stopped at all costs as this risks dragging us into a confrontation with nuclear-armed Russia, of which - see point 1 - we have no strategic interest in. I'm not willing to risk British soldiers or nuclear war for the Donbas and nor should you be.
7. The likely outcome, as John Meirsheimer has said, is a frozen conflict where the border de facto is more or less where it is at now as the Russians have dug in behind defensive lines. Think the Korean situation or the Indo-Pakistani border.
Thoughts?
