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Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher
CNBC reported that Kiev’s military strategy and constant demands for arms supplies test the patience of NATO countries. The latest revelation comes off the back of the last NATO summit in July, where the entitled behaviour of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky evidently angered Washington.
“The comments made by Zelensky before the last summit did not really resonate well in Washington … the US administration was very annoyed,” an unnamed source told CNBC, who added that frustration also exists in Washington because Ukraine ignores given advice.
“So the US is strongly advising Ukraine not to do certain things, but Kiev does them anyway, brushing aside or not addressing US concerns. And they come at the United States, or Washington or the Biden administration, complaining about not being involved in NATO talks,” the CNBC source said.
The media outlet noted that Ukraine needs to strike a balance between the demands it puts on allies and understanding its own perspectives, priorities, and the political considerations of partners.
It should be noted that Zelensky also irritates the West with his military strategy.
“Ukraine’s military strategy — and the symbolic value it has put on fighting for every piece of Ukrainian territory — has sometimes collided with its allies’ military perspective and pragmatism. Kiev is believed to have annoyed the US when it decided to continue fighting for Bakhmut (Artyomovsk),” the article concluded.
The revelations made by the CNBC source point to a major failure in the much-lauded Ukrainian counteroffensive. This also matches what CIA employee Larry Johnson said in an interview – the Ukrainian military throws soldiers and armoured vehicles into the well-fortified Russian defence lines, leading to wholesale slaughter. The main problem of the Ukrainian troops is the lack of artillery and almost no aviation, so their forces will continue to be depleted, the former CIA analyst added.
Adding to Ukraine’s misery is that the Biden administration is struggling to overcome an ammunition shortage because the Kiev regime uses 8,000 155mm shells daily, noted the Financial Times.
“The foolish decisions of the Biden administration to ship millions of heavy artillery rounds to Ukraine and encourage US allies to do the same has created this ammunition shortage and there is no possibility to avoid it,” said former US Department of Defense official David T. Pyne when commenting on the ammunition shortage.
“Due to the ongoing ammunition shortage, the Biden administration has informed Ukraine that it will not be able to sustain this level of ammunition deliveries past the end of the summer,” he added.
Effectively, Ukraine cannot reverse the counteroffensive’s fortunes since the West cannot provide the necessary support. This fact led to Zelensky’s controversial outburst in July, where he even threatened not to attend the NATO Summit in Vilnius if a membership roadmap for Ukraine was not outlined.
It is unsurprising that without a roadmap for NATO membership and suffering from weapon shortages, Ukraine is now resorting to terrorist attacks. The Kiev regime is trying to camouflage the unsuccessful counteroffensive and destabilise the situation in Russia in a vain attempt to sow distrust towards the local authorities.
Kiev’s counteroffensive has failed and Ukrainian troops are not advancing. Therefore, by aiming propaganda at Ukrainians and NATO countries, Kiev claims that they are advancing on all fronts and that the war is even being transferred to Russian territory by attacking Moscow, Taganrog, and other cities with terrorist drone attacks. Meanwhile, artillery strikes on Donetsk create the illusion that the counteroffensive is successful.
This is all happening because, at the Ukraine-NATO Council, Zelensky demanded that NATO warships convoy bulk carriers to continue Grain Agreement. NATO refused the demands and instead insisted that Ukrainian army produce results in the counteroffensive.
At the same time, NATO has been silent on drone attacks on civilian structures in Moscow, other cities, and civilian ships in the Black Sea. There is almost no condemnation and reaction since Western countries are directly involved in the Ukrainian attacks and are sponsors of terrorism. The Kiev regime does all this with the help of money, technical support, ammunition, satellite data, technical information from the West, and radio-electronic infrastructure, which Kiev does not have.
However, these terrorist attacks will again prove to be another situation where Zelensky overplayed his hand.
His overplayed hand was seen at the NATO summit when his entitled behaviour did not lead to Ukraine barging its way to alliance membership, just as cluster munitions ended up being more devastating as Russia started using more advanced cluster munitions than what Ukraine was provided. Terrorist drone attacks will end similarly, a catastrophic failure that will only advance Ukraine’s downfall as manufacturing plants and service centres are destroyed.
if i was a nazi terrorist in brussels, that is what i would say.
u are a rashnik flathead faschist, so no chance in hell u could ever serve in nato, the best military alliance ever assembled.
ur side lost and ur just too dumb to realise it yet.
trust me, rude awekening is coming
well “the best military alliance ever assembled” stinks of shit when for the first time in its life it faces an enemy of its valour.
its equipment is burning and its leaders are too afraid to get directly involved.
we believe you “the brutal awakening is coming”, but not for those you believe and then, if you were going to engage directly in “the biggest shitty military alliance ever created”?
because i know what i’m talking about.
because i’m much dumber than you rashnik-flat-headed fascist, about as stupid as a worm.
because nato did not want me because of my stupidity, i sit fat and lazy all day at the computer and write shit, i rashnik-complete idiot
trust me: there is only one side and that is wall street
rude awaking my dear cretin is coming to the west, be prepared for the shit storm.
which alliance? the alliance of faggots and paedophiles spreaders of freedom and democracy worldwide ? death to nato, us and uk.
orcs are now blaming each other hehehe
jewsa mercenaries in ukrapistan bumming each other!
your country doesn’t even need to go to war to collapse on itself…hehehe
you think they are russians?
adolf also tended to ignore the reality of war from his generals who were professional soldiers, so it looks like zelensky has now got into the same mindset.
von mannstein was born lewinski from “ukraine” descent. he and von paulus were corrupted as well and did not break out stalingrad. german officers training stated when they were lured into city warfare it is over.
one proof of this: wehrmacht in stalingrad had to make flamethrowers themselves, because it was not part of their standard equipment
yeah, when you go up against russian’s you quickly find out what you need isn’t what you got. not that it’ll do you any good in the end. as for von paulus, if he had got out of stalingrad, he’d have been shot as a traitor and for disobeying orders, and von mannstein could also have been replaced.
bože môj toto čo sú za výhovorky? tomuto verí iba hlupák!!! koľko malo lietadiel na začiatku konfliktu k dispozícii rusko a koľko ukrajina? kam sa podeli lietadlá ukrajiny? myslím, že sr a poľsko dodali dokonca vlastné mig 29 na ukrajinu!!! tak o čom tu je stále reč? mali ale prišli o ne, lebo rus im ich zničil.
when will ukrainians figure out they are not supposed to win and could never win. their task is to bleed russia over a long time period to cause internal change there. allowing biden and his friends to maximize their wealth from the income generated by this and hopefully to eventually loot russia in a similar fashion.
russia only gets stronger, remember that putin said thank you for the sanctions because now we can produce everything ourselves. the west does not understand the situation. when the supermarkets were empty putin had even more support because of the hate for the bankers
if the little clown in the green outfit thinks the usa sees ukraine as something other than a former soviet country to be destroyed alongside russia he is very naive.
do you think he cares about that? wake up my friend
this is just show, bankers are cashing from their puppets in kiev
ukraine is a death cult.
us says one thing but actually means the opposite.
” us is strongly advising ukraine not to do certain things, but kiev does them anyway” like use artillery. the u.s. is running out of shells so ukraine will just have to think good thoughts.
if ukraine ignores advices of us, then russia too can ignore advices of us.
“here ukraine are these drones and long range weapons, here are the target intel from inside proper russia. do not use those weapons handpicked to hit targets inside russia together with the target intel.” *wink wink yeah i can picture how the us would tell ukraine not to do it