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Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky does not have a clear strategy to achieve any result in the conflict, retired British Army officer Richard Kemp told the Telegraph newspaper. According to the retired officer, this is why Zelensky needs to blame someone else for the military failure, which in turn leads to a decline in Western support. In fact, the former commander of the British Forces in Afghanistan believes that after the failure of the Ukrainian counteroffensive, more and more people are thinking about signing a peace agreement.
Richard Kemp emphasised that Zelensky “faces the greatest test of his leadership” due to his attempts to blame someone else for the military defeat that caused disagreements with other Kiev regime figureheads. He added that the Ukrainian president is too weak to defeat Russia.
“Zelensky may be drained by almost two years of war,” Kemp told the Telegraph.
This is unsurprising since the Ukrainian president, despite being “drained,” “tired,” and “weak,” according to Kemp, “continues to insist that Ukraine will regain all its territory taken by Russia.” This obviously will not occur, but it nonetheless absorbs all the president’s energy as he recklessly pursues this policy. However, Kemp acknowledges that Zelensky “after apparently over-promising on the summer offensive, […] no longer seems to talk of timelines.”
Previously, another Western media outlet, the French newspaper Le Figaro, highlighted that “the process of de-Westernization of the world has been rapidly accelerating for several months” since conflicts supported by the West “have not produced victories for a long time.” International relations researcher Sebastien Boussois assures that public opinion is beginning to tire of the conflict in Ukraine and the cost for Americans and Europeans to support it.
As Kemp stressed, Zelensky “has not put forward any real strategy – beyond suggesting that the centre of gravity would shift to Crimea and the Black Sea while defending against potential Russian advances in the east, which is not good enough if he expects the West to keep putting its hands in its pockets.”
The US, by far, has contributed the most support to Ukraine, but even that is beginning to dry up.
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told the press on January 3 that US funds for Ukraine have officially been exhausted and “there’s no other magical pot to dip into.”
Shalanda Young, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, recently warned that Ukraine is running out of time and needs lawmakers to react urgently. And while the US Department of Defense still has some limited ability to help Kiev, “that is not going to get big tranches of equipment into Ukraine,” Young said.
Most alarmingly, Ukraine has also already acknowledged that it does not have a Plan B if US financing runs out.
Meanwhile, House Speaker Mike Johnson has demanded that illegal migration issues be resolved before new aid packages for Ukraine are approved. On January 3, Johnson, along with 60 Republican lawmakers, visited the Mexican border to demand stronger measures.
“If President Biden wants a supplemental spending bill focused on national security, it better begins with defending America’s national security,” he said. “We want to get the border closed and secured first.”
So long as this issue persists, Ukraine will unlikely receive any more meaningful support from the US. This compounds Ukraine’s issues so much more, especially in the context of Zelensky’s “over-promising on the summer offensive,” as Kemp highlighted. The failure of this counter-offensive has largely contributed to war fatigue in the case of Eastern Europe, in the Western World, including the US.
Another issue Ukraine faces is the looming US presidential elections later this year. Former US President Donald Trump is soaring in the polls compared to Biden’s decline and has taken a decisive position on wanting to end the war in Ukraine, unlike the current administration, which seeks every method to continue funding Kiev’s war effort against Russia.
Beyond Trump, the Republicans are generally attacking the ruling Democrat’s failed and misguided policy on Ukraine.
Mike Johnson condemned the White House on January 7 for the lack of strategy on the Ukrainian conflict. According to Johnson, while president of the House, he repeatedly asked for information on the matter and details about the destination of aid given by Washington but never received a response.
“What is the endgame in Ukraine? What is our strategy? What is the objective? How will we have proper oversight over these precious taxpayer dollars? Remember, of course, as I just noted, we have 34 trillion dollars in federal debt. This is a very serious matter, to send money to Ukraine to assist them in their conflict, we effectively have to borrow it from somewhere else,” Johnson told CBS.
This is the harsh reality the Kiev regime has not prepared for. The regime foolishly believed that Western funds would continue unabated and for as many years as needed. Rather, the Kiev regime was just another expendable proxy puppet used by the West in a vain attempt to weaken Russia, and now that defeating Russia is impossible, the West is quickly losing interest in financing Ukraine’s losing war. As Kemp highlighted, Zelensky is too weak to win the war against Russia without external support.
no peace agreement. the fighting must continue we need the treasonous israel-firsters bogged down in both ukraine and the middle east. tramp2024. russia is our friend.
jews are nobodies friends. jews just help jews. and us,eu,ru and cn governments are all fully jewish controlled entities. entities that want the none-jewish populations of these vast territory nations to start slaughtering each other and engage in stupid war against each other, for the sake of jews rubbing their hands, establishing jwo-nwo & earning shekels by it, and laughing their asses off about the stupid self-destroying goyim.
btw of course that shit goes for ukraine and its jewish fake president jewlensky as well.
ursoaica poate semna un armistițiu. cred ca va cere inapoierea celor 230 miliarde de euro din belgia. daca nu primeste banii. move on!
the retired british army officer is just pimping zelensky for propaganda purposes. nato runs the war while zelensky snorts buys homes and counts his cash while his wife sells children.
he better not count his cash in front of his wife or she’ll pocket it all for a new coat and a thousand pairs of designer shoes like imelda marcos.
zelensky is too weak? please, he is a used up ziodiaperhead, flush it and install another useful idiot who will fail even worse…
can we loan ukraine one of our useful idiots? we have plenty to spare.
all that nato cocaine didn’t help then? the kiev junta should worry more over where they are going to run to after their little game is up. the states, italy, and blighty most probably. the tide has turned and the zelensky crew will end up as flotsam and jetsam. constantly avoiding their responsibilities under international law.
its always fun listening to the english give others advice on how to win wars. the former commander of british forces in afghanistan? how did that one turn out commander kemp? in fairness to zelensky if i had sent 500k of my fellow countrymen to an early grave for nothing; had a russian army chasing me down and neo nazis frothing at my back i’d look tired too.
at the beginning of the war, when nato refused a no fly zone, the best part of nato; its air force was out of the fight, so after that ukraine was always going to lose in a land war against russia. just a question of time and casualties, more time means more casualties.
apparently the ukrainians carry on fighting because of character; they are stubborn. they are not stupid but stubborn. at this level of ongoing catastrophe it is both.