The West's primary objective has been achieved, says Sean Bell "Military Analyst."
Posted by scrabb on October 7, 2023, 6:39 pm
Writing on the Sky News website, Bell more or less admits Ukraine has lost the war and that it's now up to Zelensky to find a way of ending it. War fatigue in the West has set in, he says, and we're no longer willing to keep throwing money at it. Then, rather bizarrely even for a corporate hack, he claims the main motivation for NATO in supporting the war "was to avoid Russian aggression threatening the rest of Europe." and that this objective has been achieved.
Military Analyst my arse, as Jim Royle would say. Read more of his Alice in Wonderland analysis here:
If Ukraine was unable to make progress this summer when arguably it was as well-prepared as it could ever be, would continued Western military support simply lead to a protracted, costly and largely static conflict.
Is that supportable?
From the West's perspective, a key motivation for supporting Ukraine - not a member of NATO - was to avoid Russian aggression threatening the rest of Europe.
Russia's military capability has been badly damaged by the invasion of Ukraine.
Russia has lost more than 2,000 of its most capable tanks - so it looks unlikely that it will have the military capability to threaten Europe again for at least a decade.
The West's primary objective has been achieved.
ha. that's a cracker but it's for sure a way out. I expect we will be seeing this