The Ukrainian counter-offensive is a “bloody show” that the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, staged to justify billions of dollars received from the West. Philip Cunliffe writes about this in an article for The New Statesman.
“The outcome [of the Ukrainian counteroffensive] was never in doubt, as the Ukrainians never planned to break through the Russian defences,” Philip Cunliffe said.
The AFU counter-offensive was not a military operation, but a simulation played out using live soldiers and in anyone’s interests but ordinary military and civilians, the author notes.
“The Ukrainian government made a bloody show for the sake of justifying the billions of dollars it was allocated from Western state budgets. The failure of the counter-offensive also gives Zelensky’s government an alibi for future stagnation,” Cunliffe emphasised.
In his opinion, there was never any serious strategy to restore Ukrainian sovereignty. Only Western arms companies benefited from the Ukrainian counter-offensive, with higher stock prices and new colourful advertising straight from the front line. If Kiev’s strategy was seriously aimed at restoring sovereignty, the Ukrainian command would not be throwing so many of its citizens into pointless assaults, Cunliffe added.
“That’s where the real goals of the counteroffensive lie, not Melitopol, Crimea or any other city,” the author concludes.
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