{"id":1430648,"date":"2023-10-05T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1430648"},"modified":"2023-10-05T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T13:45:00","slug":"zelensky-admits-war-fatigue-as-unified-support-from-west-falls-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/zelensky-admits-war-fatigue-as-unified-support-from-west-falls-apart\/1430648\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky Admits ‘War Fatigue’ As Unified Support From West Falls Apart"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zelensky Admits ‘War Fatigue’ As Unified Support From West Falls Apart<\/span><\/p>\n

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There’s clearly been a Ukraine war narrative shift among media and pundits in the West, as we’ve been covering<\/a>, but for the first time this week President Zelensky himself has admitted that “fatigue” is setting in <\/strong>more broadly amid the war effort. This is leading Western advisers and military strategists to float ‘solutions’ toward winding down the conflict<\/a>:\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to Teona Lavrelashvili, an analyst at the European Politics Centre, they could signal that several allies are ready for a “pragmatic solution” <\/strong>to the end of the war,.<\/em><\/p>\n

But Kyiv will be “worried but not panicking” <\/strong>by the growing sense that some traditional allies have “fallen out of step”<\/strong>, said Sean Hanley, an associate professor in Comparative Central and East European Politics at University College London.<\/em><\/p>\n

Via Associated Press<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

To recount, just over the last several days Ukraine aid was dropped from the stop-gap budget bill in US Congress, Poland declared it would cease arming Kiev amid the row over grain imports, a Moscow-friendly politician has been elected to lead Slovakia, and most recently Britain’s military has said it’s run out of vital arms to give Kiev.<\/p>\n

All of this has led Zelensky to admit “There is fatigue”<\/strong> – but he pivoted quickly to citing a “slowly” progressing counteroffensive.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He told an Italian broadcaster in a fresh interview, “There is fatigue but we will do everything to win against our enemy, and our counter-offensive goes ahead, even if slowly we do everything to repel the enemy.” And on the billions in future US aid held up and potentially canceled<\/a>:<\/p>\n

He said Ukraine felt support from the United States in “these very difficult times” and was convinced this would be the case in the future<\/strong> despite the delay in the approval of US financial aid due to the\u00a0political bickering in Washington, DC.<\/em><\/p>\n

But there’s no evidence of any “progressing” Ukraine offensive. For example the\u00a0The Economist<\/em>\u00a0documented that “Ukraine has liberated less than 0.25% of the territory that Russia occupied in June.” The establishment publication noted, “The 1,000km front line has barely shifted.”<\/p>\n

And on whether the supply of Western advanced arms has made a difference,\u00a0The<\/em>\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0recently\u00a0observed <\/a>that in\u00a0first two weeks of the counteroffensive “as much as 20% of the weaponry Ukraine sent to the battlefield was damaged or destroyed, according to US and European officials.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sign of the times: neocon pivot to “it’s all about China”…<\/em><\/p>\n

Lindsey Graham giving another impassioned defense of the top foreign policy priority of Biden, US liberals, Raytheon and CIA.<\/p>\n

I love how – seeing support rapidly erode for Ukraine, especially among the right – they just started cynically claiming it’s necessary to fight China. https:\/\/t.co\/AjEij2rRgH<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 2, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n

Sending a “message to China”…<\/p>\n

THE NEOLIBERAL MIND WILL DESTROY US ALL pic.twitter.com\/0XwHeYPWvs<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 The_Real_Fly (@The_Real_Fly) October 2, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n

…or else pivot to “it’s all about American jobs”:<\/p>\n

saw this on CNN the other day. pic.twitter.com\/GJhkW78SbE<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 a newsman (@a_newsman) October 1, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n

“Time is not our friend,” Kirby has admitted, vowing to not let Putin outlast US will…<\/p>\n

This is the statement of a Biden White House that knows it has lost this proxy war but is desperate to keep it going so as to avoid a public capitulation.
\nRussia will continue to go slow and grind down the NATO proxy. The slower this goes, the faster the collective west\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/a4vs0EIezd<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Alex Christoforou (@AXChristoforou) October 3, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, fresh analysis in UnHerd<\/em>\u00a0has explained why even if Biden can eventually push his new Ukraine funding through, the political winds are likely to continue blowing strongly against Kiev<\/a>…<\/p>\n

But even if that happens, the White House will still face an increasingly uphill struggle in mustering political support for its strategy of open-ended assistance to Ukraine. Not only is Trump, with his anti-war stance, continuing to\u00a0rise in the polls<\/a>, but even the more hawkish elements of the US and Western establishment are starting to rethink their stance on Ukraine<\/strong>. <\/em><\/p>\n

Indeed, it seems to finally be dawning on them that, as one leading commentator\u00a0wrote in\u00a0<\/a>Newsweek<\/a>, \u201cthere is no realistic basis to believe that Ukraine has the capacity to attain its stated strategic objective\u00a0to reclaim all its territory,\u00a0including Crimea\u201d. A correspondent at\u00a0The\u00a0Wall Street Journal, meanwhile,\u00a0recently noted<\/a>\u00a0that Ukraine\u2019s goal of retaking all the territory it lost now \u201cappears a distant prospect\u201d<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Interestingly, the title of the piece spells out that if there is escalation, “Nato won\u2019t win a long war in Ukraine” and that “An Afghanistan-style conflict could cripple Europe.”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nThu, 10\/05\/2023 – 05:45<\/span><\/p>\n

\u200bhttps:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/zelensky-admits-war-fatigue-unified-western-support-falls-apart<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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