from Sputnik News:
While the Biden administration puts on a brave face, another major US media outlet has recognized the reality of Kiev’s quixotic endeavor.
“The situation in Ukraine still favors [Kiev],” began a lengthy article in Time magazine last August. “Ukrainian progress will very likely alternate periods of notable tactical advances with periods, possibly long periods, of pause and some setbacks… But the Ukrainian counteroffensive can succeed in any of several ways.”
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“Ukraine is still very much in the game… if only the West holds firm in its support,” the summer article said.
Eight months and several billion dollars in US aid later, the magazine’s prediction has proved to be incorrect – a fact that was acknowledged on Saturday in an editorial by the Quincy Institute’s Anatol Lieven.
“The long-awaited counteroffensive last year failed,” Lieven observed bluntly. “Russia has recaptured Avdeyevka, its biggest war gain in nine months. President Volodymyr Zelensky has been forced to quietly acknowledge the new military reality.”
Lieven notes that Washington’s rhetoric has shifted accordingly. “The Biden Administration’s strategy is now to sustain Ukrainian defense until after the U.S. presidential elections, in the hope of wearing down Russian forces in a long war of attrition.”
