A former top Pentagon official says that the war in Ukraine is effectively “over” because Kiev’s counter-offensive has failed and there is no appetite in America to continue funding it.
Maloof, a former senior security policy analyst, told Sputnik that President Volodymyr Zelensky would have to seriously consider some form of negotiated end to the conflict with Russia.
“There’s no stomach right now any longer to fund the Ukrainians,” he said. “Frankly, the people see that the war is over. Basically, the [Ukrainian] counteroffensive failed, and there’s no way that they can pick it back up and turn things around, because they’ve gone into total defensive mode. The so-called counteroffensive just does not exist.”
The US Congress has failed to reach a deal on sending a further $60 billion in aid for Ukraine, a roadblock that could cause the US government to shut down in January, warned Maloof, predicting a “tumultuous” start to 2024.
“The United States has their appropriations hung up. The US government could shut down by January 17 if the administration and Congress can’t negotiate and work out an arrangement for funding Ukraine and Israel, but at the same time to enforce the border,” he said.
The former Pentagon analyst also noted that America is also “pretty fed up” with how Benjamin Netanyahu is handling the bombing of Gaza and that the Israeli leader “appears to be trying to pick a fight with the Iranians, and this whole thing could explode.”
“I guess he [Benjamin Netanyahu] thinks he can go ahead and start raising all kinds of havoc not only with Iran, but also with Hezbollah up north. So are we going to help fund all of that? I mean, that’s the big question. And I don’t think there’s any stomach for that, considering that, you know, we are entering an election year,” said Maloof.
As we highlighted yesterday, Ukraine appears to be running out of troops to feed into the meat grinder.
The average age of a Ukrainian soldier is now 43 and mentally disabled men are being sent to fight on the front lines.
Earlier this month, Sascha Lehnartz, chief correspondent of German newspaper Die Welt, said the Ukrainian “counteroffensive seems to have failed” and that there was a sense Kiev had “already lost” the war.
Last month, CNN reported on a Time article which quoted a top Zelensky aide as saying, “He deludes himself. We’re out of options. We’re not winning.”
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Also LMFAO at the retards in the Azov batallion dying for jewlensky and being cannon fodder for spetsnaz operatives to test out their training.
Many a western retard has went over to ukraine to die for jewlensky.
It shows you that media brainwashing can kill.
The war in Ukraine should have ended in February 2022 when a peace deal was on the table and ready to sign. Only Biden saw a way to make even more dirty money out of the country so he sent Boris Johnson over to Kiev to offer Zelenskyy cash and prizes to continue the slaughter. Fucking war criminals the lot of them.
If jewlensky cared about ukrainians he would have been doing everything he could for peace, instead he did the exact opposite, sending cripples and kids to the meat grinder.
A dirty fucking rat is all he is.
The precious little midget is only doing what he is told . his Charlie is very important to him.
The war wont be over until every last white Christian is dead and every ounce of land is in the control of the Zionists and the rcc. The so called war in Palestine won’t be over until the new beach front resorts are under construction and the oil contracts that have already been issued are being executed in Gaza and the west bank.
Any country that sends disabled people to the front lines gets what they deserve.
Jewlensky will send every man, woman and child to the front lines except enough.
The brainwashing must be pretty strong in ukraine. Didn’t jewlensky ban alternative media there?
Jewlensky will send every man, woman and child to the front lines except himself* typo.
Been over for some time…if you dont believe the propaganda BS.
It should never have started in the first place. $billions down the drain, a destroyed country and half a million dead and all for sweet fuck all. Biden and Zelenskyy should be tried for war crimes.