White House officials are losing confidence that Ukraine will ever be able to take back all of the land it has lost to Russia over the past four months of war, US officials told CNN, even with the heavier and more sophisticated weaponry the US and its allies plan to send.Thousands already have died, millions already displaced you dim bulb.
Putin’s fault. No one else.
Advisers to President Joe Biden have begun debating internally how and whether Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should shift his definition of a Ukrainian "victory" -- adjusting for the possibility that his country has shrunk irreversibly.
If we see this war end up with tens of thousands dead on top of territorial losses beyond what was on the table with Minsk II, who will be faulted for that?