r/neoliberal • u/RabidGuillotine PROSUR • Oct 14 '24

The Impending Betrayal of Ukraine Opinion article (non-US)

https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/impending-betrayal-ukraine
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u/ambassador_softboi Gay Pride Oct 14 '24

I suspect there’s a chance that the real strategy is U.S. policymakers want Ukraine to spend another decade fighting Russia to bleed them out slowly.

As opposed to giving Ukraine what it needs to win right now.

When some U.S. strategists talk about turning Ukraine into Russia’s Afghanistan or Vietnam I suspect they mean that literally. Including a 20 year time frame.

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u/lietuvis10LTU Why do you hate the global oppressed? Oct 14 '24

I don't think there is any strategy. The policy makers are just too russophilic or are nativist soccons. Or they think "this will all blow over" and want to have an easy "reset" with Russia, just like after 2008.

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u/socialistrob Janet Yellen Oct 15 '24

Agreed. If the strategy was to weaken Russia itself the goal would be to give Ukraine even more weapons and remove the limitations on striking. A quick defeat of Russia would show the future Russian leaders that they cannot possibly hope to compete with the west.

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u/lAljax NATO Oct 15 '24

But I guess this is the point, they want to boil the frog. In the end the west sends the weapons russia threatens nuclear war over, they want to wait russians charging trench lines on foot before sending a considerable amount of armored support to Ukraine, it's disgusting.