G7 summit leaders appear on a monitor during a video conference with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on Dec. 6. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Service)
Business Insider: Putin believes Ukraine will fall within just months without new US aid, says Senate Intelligence Chair
* Senate Intelligence Chair Mark Warner said Putin believes that Ukraine will fall in just months.
* Warner drew his assessment from US intelligence after senators blocked a $175 million aid package.
* “Vladimir Putin’s hopes for victory rest on the US walking away from Ukraine,” he said.
Senate Intelligence Chair Mark Warner said Vladimir Putin believes that Ukraine will fall within just months without renewed US military aid.
Sen. Warner asked, “Why, at this moment in time, would we prove Putin right?”
Warner made the statement on Wednesday after the Senate failed to hit the 60-vote threshold required to advance a new “crucial” military aid package to Ukraine.
“Vladimir Putin’s hopes for victory rest on the US walking away from Ukraine,” Warner wrote.
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WNU Editor: I do not know where U.S. Senate Intelligence Chair Mark Warner gets his intelligence. But I do know in Russia the expectation is that even if the West stops providing aid to Ukraine in the coming weeks, there is more than enough weapons and ammo in Ukraine to keep the war going on for a very long time.
As to what is my take.
Ukraine does not have the manpower to continue the war and accomplish its goal of expelling Russian military forces out of Ukraine. This new US aid, which I believe will be approved by the US Congress, will only prolong the slaughter.
Update: He is on a roll (for now) …. As Ukraine struggles with fickle allies, Vladimir Putin is on a roll (CBC News).