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West was 'overly optimistic' about Ukraine in 2023: NATO commander (english.almayadeen.net)

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Ukraine's Western allies were “overly optimistic" about the war in 2023 and assumed that providing Kiev with the required ammunition and training would lead to victory, chief of the NATO Military Committee Admiral Rob Bauer told the Financial Times on Sunday. ...

For now, the West’s plan is to “keep the Ukrainian military from collapsing".

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Yeah, I'm sure capital didn't care about what the outcome for Ukraine would be. But as you say, it certainly did care about what the outcome for Russia was - the West has been dreaming for decades of a Balkanized, subservient Russia. And anything that got it closer to that would be considered a victory.