{"id":1493098,"date":"2024-09-30T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1493098"},"modified":"2024-09-30T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T22:45:00","slug":"the-wall-street-journal-is-right-the-biden-admin-should-declassify-its-ukrainian-aid-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/the-wall-street-journal-is-right-the-biden-admin-should-declassify-its-ukrainian-aid-strategy\/1493098\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wall Street Journal Is Right: The Biden Admin Should Declassify Its Ukrainian Aid Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wall Street Journal Is Right: The Biden Admin Should Declassify Its Ukrainian Aid Strategy<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/a>\u00a0(WSJ) published a very critical editorial on Friday about how \u201cBiden Reneges on His Ukraine Promise: He classifies a strategy document that Congress made the price of aid.\u201d<\/p>\n

They surprisingly wrote that \u201cRepublicans in Congress are right to insist that the Administration articulate a larger theory of how Ukraine can use the assistance to regain momentum and take more territory back from Mr. Putin.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Their Editorial Board also threw a few jabs at Kamala too.<\/p>\n

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In their words, \u201cDon\u2019t count on the Administration following this order before Nov. 5, if it ever does. A public release might mean that Vice President Kamala Harris would have to explain her own thinking on the war before the election. As long as she doesn\u2019t, and the Administration covers it up, Ms. Harris co-owns Mr. Biden\u2019s record of muddled half measures.\u201d <\/strong><\/em>There\u2019s more to it than domestic electoral considerations though since the argument can be made that the US doesn\u2019t even really have a strategy.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll Sides Of The Ukrainian Conflict Underestimated Each Other<\/a>\u201d as was assessed as early as July 2022, with the US\u00a0wrongly expecting<\/a>\u00a0that its unprecedented sanctions would force Russia to withdraw. When it proved too economically resilient yet it still continued to militarily restrain itself in furtherance of political goals as was explained\u00a0here<\/a>, the conflict then turned into an\u00a0improvised \u201cwar of attrition\u201d<\/a>. That also hasn\u2019t gone according to how the West planned.<\/p>\n

Not only did last year\u2019s counteroffensive\u00a0disastrously fail<\/a>\u00a0after the West promised that it would be a game-changer, but\u00a0Sky News<\/a>\u00a0reported in spring that Russia is producing three times as many shells as the West and at one-quarter of the price. The scale at which military resources are expended in this conflict is so large, however, that Russia still hasn\u2019t been able to make much on-the-ground progress despite being\u00a0so far ahead of the West<\/a>\u00a0in their \u201crace of logistics<\/a>\u201d.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

In fact, Russia is finally bearing some fruits from this \u201cwar of attrition\u201d as proven by the increased pace of its gains in Donbass, which is setting the stage for what might turn out to be the\u00a0decisive Battle of Pokrovsk<\/a>.<\/strong> Even before everything started moving in that direction, it was already clear that the\u00a0military-strategic dynamics<\/a>\u00a0had shifted against the West after last year\u2019s failed counteroffensive and the consequently growing awareness of Russia\u2019s victory in the \u201crace of logistics\u201d.<\/p>\n

It was around that time last spring that Republican holdouts finally stopped blocking Congressional aid to Ukraine in exchange for the Biden Administration submitting a strategy for this within 45 days. That predictably didn\u2019t happen on time, and when it finally arrived, it was completely classified. The public therefore remains oblivious to the goals that they\u2019re paying to pursue. More than likely, the Biden Administration doesn\u2019t have any clear ones in mind, hence why it won\u2019t declassify the document. \u00a0<\/p>\n

The realization that no concrete goals exist, and the US just continues to improvise everything in spite of it being obvious that time isn\u2019t on their side as proven by Russia\u2019s victory in the \u201crace of logistics\u201d, could turn the public against this proxy war even more than they already are. <\/strong>As the WSJ wrote, \u201cThe Biden Team has hid behind platitudes such as supporting Ukraine \u2018as long as it takes,\u2019 which isn\u2019t a strategy. It long ago became a rhetorical evasion\u201d, one that\u2019s become among the most open secrets in the world.<\/p>\n

The military-industrial complex and those elite that invest in it, including public officials, profit handsomely from this state of affairs though. They\u2019re the ones who don\u2019t care about this becoming another \u201cforever war\u201d, as they imagine it to be at least, since they benefit from it. The public was told that this was an existential conflict for the West, however, which is why they\u2019d be none too pleased to find out that their leaders never had a plan for winning in the first place other than sanctioning Russia.<\/p>\n

Moreover, it might even be admitted or at least implied within this entirely classified document that new weapons systems have deliberately been sent to Ukraine at a snail\u2019s pace for escalation management purposes vis-\u00e0-vis Russia, which would disappoint those who don\u2019t understand the wisdom behind this. <\/strong>This pragmatic approach was elaborated\u00a0here<\/a>, but it\u2019s sufficient for the average reader to know that more could have been sent to Ukraine and at a quicker pace too, yet the decision was made not to.<\/p>\n

The Biden Administration should therefore declassify its Ukrainian aid strategy in full instead of continuing this charade. From the perspective of the US\u2019 objective national interests, it\u2019s better to prepare the public for the inevitable political solution to this conflict (whenever and whatever it may be) than to keep getting their hopes unrealistically high about a maximum victory that\u2019s impossible to achieve. The sooner that the American elite levels with the people, the sooner that peace will arrive.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nMon, 09\/30\/2024 – 14:45<\/span><\/p>\n

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