Hegseth is correct, it is unrealistic. Russia is winning a war of attrition and gradually moving eastward, as some (Mearsheimer, et. al.) have been reporting and predicting for many months. Putin is not going to give up the Donbas, Crimea, and other assets it has gained at heavy cost in men and materiel. Wicker is saying that Hegseth is a fool for saying the truth right out loud, because some clowns are trying to maintain the fiction that the US and NATO are winning and need to continue to support Ukraine. This, even though the mainstream media has finally come around to reporting that Ukraine is losing, and will continue to lose irrespective of what NATO and the US can do.
Heads are exploding in Europe and elsewhere (Zelenskyy) because Trump is talking to Putin and attempting to end the conflict. That may not happen for many reasons, significantly because the deep state is intent on bringing Russia to its knees, which was always the purpose of supporting Ukraine. Both former SecDef Austin and SecState Blinken said so publicly, right out loud. They’re fools too.
They forgot that the carnage in Ukraine is a righteous home grown struggle for freedom and democracy, rather than a losing, cynical, self-serving plan to maintain US world hegemony by weakening Russia, deposing Putin, and even (in their wildest dreams) breaking Russia apart into smaller and more controllable regions. Let’s you and him fight, no?
Hegseth is correct, it is unrealistic. Russia is winning a war of attrition and gradually moving eastward, as some (Mearsheimer, et. al.) have been reporting and predicting for many months. Putin is not going to give up the Donbas, Crimea, and other assets it has gained at heavy cost in men and materiel. Wicker is saying that Hegseth is a fool for saying the truth right out loud, because some clowns are trying to maintain the fiction that the US and NATO are winning and need to continue to support Ukraine. This, even though the mainstream media has finally come around to reporting that Ukraine is losing, and will continue to lose irrespective of what NATO and the US can do.
Heads are exploding in Europe and elsewhere (Zelenskyy) because Trump is talking to Putin and attempting to end the conflict. That may not happen for many reasons, significantly because the deep state is intent on bringing Russia to its knees, which was always the purpose of supporting Ukraine. Both former SecDef Austin and SecState Blinken said so publicly, right out loud. They’re fools too.
They forgot that the carnage in Ukraine is a righteous home grown struggle for freedom and democracy, rather than a losing, cynical, self-serving plan to maintain US world hegemony by weakening Russia, deposing Putin, and even (in their wildest dreams) breaking Russia apart into smaller and more controllable regions. Let’s you and him fight, no?