When you’ve already thrown $100 plus billion down the drain, throw more. From Aaron Maté at mate.substack.com:
As Ukraine faces “staggering” losses and US public mood shifts, the Biden administration seeks billions more to prolong the war.
The Biden administration is asking Congress for an additional $24 billion for the Ukraine proxy war, more than half of it in military aid. The request comes one week after a CNN poll showed, for the first time, that a majority of Americans oppose additional funding to Kiev.
For a White House committed to ensuring a Russian “quagmire” in Ukraine, public opinion is of secondary importance. Two months into a widely hyped yet now faltering Ukrainian counteroffensive, a fresh influx of NATO weaponry appears necessary to prolong the war. In one of several gloomy assessments to appear in US establishment media, a senior western diplomat tells CNN that the prospect that Ukrainian forces can “make progress that would change the balance of this conflict” is “extremely, highly unlikely.” Ukraine’s “primary challenge” is breaking through Russia’s heavily fortified defensive lines, where “Ukrainian forces have incurred staggering losses.” According to Democratic Rep. Mike Quigley, US military assessments of the war are “sobering,” with Ukraine now facing “the most difficult time of the war.”
This picture, CNN’s Jim Sciutto observes, represents “a marked change from the optimism at the start of the counteroffensive,” with Western officials now acknowledging that “those expectations were ‘unrealistic.’” The battlefield reality is so dire that it is even “now contributing to pressure on Ukraine from some in the West to begin peace negotiations, including considering the possibility of territorial concessions.”
The fall Rasputitsa is coming and the Strykers are being added to Bradley square along with Marders and Challengers from NATOstan rump vassals Germany and Perfidious Albion.
Meanwhile in Russia captured gear is on display in the tradition of the captured Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe gear from WWII.
he is not prolonging the war. he is continuing the grift as the primary motive. the secondary motive is the biolabs and other illegal operations that have been going on in that corruptocracy.