Ukraine Punches Back in Avdiivka
But that is not the full story
A closed briefing on the vote for the aid package for Ukraine took place on December 5th in the US Congress. It was an interesting discussion that went back and forth for a while. But it wasn’t the things that the MAGA congressmen spoke about that caught my eye, but the one that came out of representatives who wanted to help Ukraine.
“We have to vote to provide aid to Ukraine, that’s the main thing. Ukraine has done a great job of defending its country and containing the Russians. They need our help to keep doing that. We have clear goals in Ukraine. We will not back down now. Just because there is no guarantee of a complete victory, the return of the entire territory by Ukraine, there is no reason to stop and refuse to support Ukraine,” said Democratic Congressman Adam Smith.
‘Just because there is no guarantee of a complete victory.’
This has already become the line of thinking for many in the western world. We cannot change their perception by telling them Ukraine was never given the proper weapons at the right time to crush the Russian military. They still don’t have the F-16s, and they still lack enough long-range ATACMS to decimate Russian logistics. But the expectation that they should achieve complete victory remains as high as it has always been.
