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Moral Paralysis

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31

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Kyiv Blog: The West has betrayed Ukraine

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Ben Aris

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October 17, 2024

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IntelliNews

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I have been skeptical of the sincerity of the West’s backing of Ukraine for at least a year, since we started reporting on the failure of the EU to invest into the productive capacity of its own arms producers to equip Ukraine. It started with a cover piece we ran in January 2023 saying Ukraine was running out of ammunition. That was followed in June by another piece calling out the EU for not signing the long-term contracts that are needed for Europe’s privately owned arms companies to scale up production to match Russia, which was already on a full war footing. That was after the first Ramstein meeting where the Allies decided to significantly scale up their military support for Ukraine. This failure was demonstrated by the EU’s promise in the second half of 2023 to provide Ukraine with one million 155mm artillery shells by March. When the deadline came less than 200,000 were delivered. Russia has been firing between five to ten shells at the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) for everyone they can fire back… Things got even worse in 2024 when first the US ran out of money for Ukraine in January and simply stopped supplying it. Over the next four months Ukraine’s skies were open and Russia launched a barrage in January to deplete the air defence ammunition and another barrage in March which destroyed 90% of Ukraine’s power generation capacity... While the word victory is often bandied about by Ukraine’s supporters, it has been perfectly obvious for well over a year that no one has any intention of ensuring a Ukrainian victory. It is pure rhetoric to comfort the West in the ugly truth that Ukrainians are being slaughtered on a daily basis thanks to its inaction and half-hearted support... West has reneged on this promise as it never supplied Ukraine with enough to allow it to turn the tide... The Ukraine fatigue is palpable and the money is drying up. US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said last week there is “no appetite” for providing more funding for Ukraine. Germany said it has run out of money for Ukraine in August, and France announced it has also run out of money for Ukraine this week. On top of that the G7 $50bn loan for Ukraine, approved on June 13 at a G7 summit in Italy, is reportedly close to collapse and a €35bn EU package, part of the same deal, is also bogged down in wrangling. Last month the allies sent Ukraine a mere $10mn when it needs some $3.5bn every month to perpetrate the war... Instead, Ukraine was told it is on an “irreversible path” towards membership, but immediately following speech yesterday putting Nato at the heart of his plan, the US Ambassador to Nato Julianne Smith immediate said that Ukraine will not be invited to Nato “in the short-term” and added that on the permission to use Western long-range missiles to hit targets in Russia proper “our policy has not changed.” Something is irreversible if it is moving forward, but currently Ukraine’s Nato bid is stood stock still, making the term meaningless. What is so disingenuous about the Nato question is that it is the very question that started the war... The West still has no war goals for Ukraine. As the money and weapons dry up, this week it was reported that US Senators are pressuring Zelenskiy to drop the enlistment age from 25 to 18. If the US is not going to provide any more help then the only way to stick to the “don’t lose, but can’t win” is to expend another generation of young Ukrainians at a time when the country already has the worst demographics in the world. As Senator Graham said: “We will fight to the last Ukrainian.”

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