In his latest post to TRUTH SOCIAL President Donald Trump claims that with more dollars, euros and missiles, Ukraine could still regain all its lost territory. President Trump’s statement is a mixture of sentiment and self-delusion, not strategy. Few wars in modern times have been wrapped in so many illusions as this one.
The number of Ukrainian Soldiers killed in action (KIA) exceed 1.7. million.
The numbers of wounded in action (WIA) are unknown, but anecdotal evidence suggests most of the WIA are seriously disabled.
The ongoing mobilization of Ukrainian men in their late fifties and early sixties is not evidence for resilience but of exhaustion. Without constant flows of dollars and euros the Ukrainian State and Society would collapse in a few days.
Very soon, the globalist ruling class in Washington, London, Paris, and Berlin will raise the question, “Who lost Ukraine,” as though it was ever theirs to lose.
However, this time, Americans will ask how Washington insiders, Lobbyists, and the sprawling military-industrial-congressional complex persuaded President Trump to imitate President Biden; to prolong, even widen the war in Ukraine instead of ending it?
Contrary to popular belief in the West, Russia was never a wobbling power held together by propaganda. Measured in purchasing power, the war has helped Russia to become the world’s fourth-largest economy.
Russian factories are humming night and day, producing shells, missiles, and drones at rates the West cannot match.
Not only is the Russian economy thriving, sanctions meant to break its economy have instead pushed global trade eastward and cemented Moscow’s ties with Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
Instead of a paper tiger, Russia looks more like an impregnable fortress.
Meanwhile, de-dollarization is advancing rapidly. For the first time in 30 years, foreign central bank gold reserves exceed US treasuries.
The dollar’s share of global reserves has already dropped from 72 percent in 2000 to about 58 percent in 2024 according to the International Monetary Fund. In economic terms, Americans are on the losing side in this conflict.
The fiscal situation in Britain, France and Germany is equally precarious, with spending levels and deficit trajectories that are unsustainable.
For the globalist leaders in Europe who opened their countries’ borders in 2015 to hostile invasion and de-industrialized their countries to follow Washington into the war against Russia the cost is even higher.
Their rendezvous with unrest and bankruptcy will come soon, long before Washington reaches the same destination.
Unfortunately, Trump’s words confirm the truth that the war in Ukraine really is Washington’s and NATO’s war against Russia.
The stark truth makes it much harder for Moscow to compromise with the West. More important, the truth justifies wider Russian military mobilization and deepening ties with Beijing, New Delhi, and Tehran.
Europe’s combination of acute military weakness and financial emergency makes the breakdown of Washington’s Atlantic Alliance inescapable.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban argues that Brussels should pursue a European Union–Russia security pact instead of aligning with Washington.
Orban is correct. If President Trump is content send money, but sit out the war for the duration, the Europeans must act.
The longer President Trump indulges the Zelenskiy Regime and its absurd demands for the restoration of Ukraine’s 1991 borders, the greater will be the damage to US and European Security.
Reprinted with permission from X.
