Donald Trump made clear that his personal grudge with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky hasn’t abated during a phone interview with NBC News.
Speaking with Meet the Press anchor Kristen Welker on Saturday, the president knocked Zelensky for offering assistance to the U.S. and Middle Eastern countries, the latter of which the Ukrainian president said on Friday were seeking his aid in sharing drone detection technology.
The “last person we need help from is Zelensky,” Trump told Welker.
You’re probably the type of person to think the south was winning the civil war, until they didn’t.
Russia’s long term strategy ends in failure. Every week that Ukraine still exists, they are one step closer to losing.
Russia’s equipment is finite, Ukraine’s is not.
!Remind me in 1 year I take no satisfaction in saying Ukraine is losing and will lose this war. Ukraine would not be in the negative position they in without the united states and in addition taking Boris Johnsons advice and turning down the Istanbul accords. Ukraine is an extremely precarious position and with the coming spring offensive i fear for them.
You’re welcome to think this but the situation on the ground is not negative.
I’m with you until the last sentence. How is that true?
Supply lines and logistics.
Ukraine’s military equipment is a mix of NATO surplus gear (ample supplies of such gear in most NATO countries, or found on the global markets), homegrown drones/missiles (can be replaced), and various other equipment for sale in the western MIC.
Russia’s primary equipment is gear that was made in Russia or in former Eastern Bloc countries like Ukraine. Russia’s equipment being finite comes from two things; they are burning through their vast Soviet surplus at a rate that is not sustainable, and their domestic and their domestic production of equipment cannot backfill those losses of the more modern equipment.
A bunch of the lynchpin systems Russia relies on cannot even be manufactured anymore, so when radar systems are destroyed, the replacement of such equipment cannot be easily done.
Where is China in your assessment?
For now they’re essentially off the table. They seem to be supplying equipment and components not actual military weapons systems like AAA or APVs or things like that.
This absolutely can change in the future, but it’s China’s benefit to have a weaker Russia. So, they are making money but not directly helping Russia win. If that makes sense. At least that’s what it looks like from my limited perspective.