Source: Antiwar.com
by Ted Snider
“The West is being increasingly confronted with the cold realization that Ukraine cannot win this war. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has set as a threshold for victory, not only the recapture of territory up to his country’s prewar borders, but the reclamation of all of its territory to the 2014 border, including the Donbas and Crimea. There are few among Ukraine’s Western backers who subscribe any longer to that illusion. But Western governments and the Western media delude their public into believing that the war is a stalemate that Russia also cannot win. This assessment is based on the unsubstantiated claim that the threshold for Russia winning is, as a start, the subjugation of Ukraine in its entirety. But that has never been Russia’s stated goal.” [editor’s note: The stated goal was regime change. “De-Nazification” and “de-militarization” couldn’t be accomplished without that – TLK] (09/19/24)
https://original.antiwar.com/ted_snider/2024/09/18/war-or-peace-ukraine-at-the-crossroad/