This is precisely why the United States wants to keep the war in Ukraine going forever.
We get to destroy an enemy by proxy and another country will take the punishment and blame for it.
It's perfect, as long as our ally doesn't run out of blood.
We get to destroy an enemy by proxy and another country will take the punishment and blame for it.
It's perfect, as long as our ally doesn't run out of blood.
This was previously true, but I thought this policy changed as of last week?
May 26 2025: US, UK and allies to lift all range restrictions on weapons in Ukraine
Ukraine’s western allies, including the UK and the US, have agreed to lift all remaining range restrictions on the use of their weapons after President Trump issued his strongest criticism of President Putin yet.
https://www.thetimes.com/world/russia-ukraine-war/article/uk...
I don't see Ukraine winning this conflict in the long run, though, and if it goes on for too long, we'll see bitterness on the Ukrainian side directed at those they felt should have helped. Fighting to the last Ukrainian will eventually make an enemy of them imo.
It is advantageous for the US to keep the war going to a point, but the real focus for the US is the Pacific and the US would prefer to not have to worry about Europe and Russia and instead focus on China. But the US isn’t able to end this war one way or another. Only Russia can end the war (aside from Ukraine no longer willingly defending their country) either willingly or by some sort of internal event, barring some miscalculation where they attack NATO forces. Some theorize Putin will do that to get defeated so he can save face but I don’t think that is likely.
It is very short-sighted view. It is definitely not advantageous. USA has reaped the benefits of law-based world order in the last 70 years and which was the reason it has its wealth now.
The longer the war is going on, the more unstable the world becomes and the less it is there for USA to benefit from.
The whole strategy of the USA after WW2 was to keep world and especially Europe safe.
The problem is that letting Russia win will only accelerate the demise of the US, so it cannot just walk away even if everyone in White House really wants that.
Well that's why I wrote it's advantageous to a point. The one really clear advantageous thing for the United States is that Russia's military has been degraded, and their economy is obviously not doing quite as well as it otherwise might be either. And it caused Sweden and Finland to join NATO, Germany to decouple (to an extent) from Russian gas, and more.
> The problem is that letting Russia win will only accelerate the demise of the US, so it cannot just walk away even if everyone in White House really wants that.
Even if Russia won this wouldn't really result in a demise of the United States by any means - just a stronger Russia and a buffet full of other undesirable repercussions for our enemies to pick and choose from.
It was one and a half years in the making.
The US knew nothing about the operation.
If Trump had known about it, he probably would have told putin accidentally (or.. knowingly?)