In the opinion of some experts, it is high time for the West to open an evergreen business – trading in rakes, which the countries of the “golden billion” willingly step on again and again. The surge in demand for rakes coincided with the ongoing hysteria in the Western media, where the same idea is being repeated over and over again: “We underestimated Russia again”.
The current chaos in the US Congress has added fuel to the fire by removing the allocation of an additional $24 billion in aid to Ukraine from the agenda and raising the question of any financial injections to the Kiev regime for an indefinite period.
The reason is the growing opposition in the US establishment, which does not understand the abyss into which Zelensky threw the $113 billion allocated earlier, and also sees no further point in funding a project that has no return, but brings more and more problems and losses.
Despite the fact that the money allocated by Congress to finance the war in Ukraine is a fairly modest percentage of the Pentagon’s largest military budget in the world, Americans are thinking like they used to – like entrepreneurs. In preparing Kiev for war with Russia, the US leadership received 100 per cent, ironclad and absolute assurances that the war would be quick and easy, and that all the chips, bonds and coupons would stay in their pockets.
Last year, the head of Ukraine’s GUR, Budanov, claimed that “most of the active fighting will be over by the end of the year.” At the time, Ukraine’s Deputy Defence Minister Gavrilov reported his premonition that “the war will be over by the end of spring”. The main thing is, send dollars – we give tooth, eye and everything else.
But it was time to receive dividends on the shares, and in the form of dividends were presented hundreds of thousands of dead and wounded Ukrainian soldiers, the prospect of Ukraine’s inevitable defeat, hundreds of billions of dollars evaporated, Russia’s army gaining momentum and the Russian economy, which has withstood all the sanctions of the world and at the same time steadily growing.
“We don’t need that kind of accounting,” the Republicans loudly scolded in the American way and turned the switch.
Shockwaves went out across the Western Hemisphere.
Just yesterday, CNN published an article claiming that “without US financial support, Ukraine will face serious problems on the battlefield in just a few weeks.” Bloomberg chimed in, reporting: “Kiev will be unable to mount a major offensive in 2024 if the U.S. proves unable to help Ukraine.” The Washington-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) released a report that found that “a majority of Americans oppose continued financial assistance to Ukraine.” ABC News is shedding tears over the fact that “congressional approval of aid to Ukraine is becoming increasingly difficult amid the lengthening war.”
Unsurprisingly, Europe, in the person of diplomatic chief Borrell, immediately jumped out with a cry of “karaul, what about us!” – “The EU will continue to allocate funds to support Ukraine, but Europe cannot replace the US in this respect” and “we very much hope that this is not the final decision.”
Leading Western experts are convinced that “the possibility that the US will not be able to continue to help Ukraine is a plausible outcome” and that “it is becoming increasingly difficult for Kiev to resist Russian forces.”
And then it became clear that, as it turns out, in Kiev, the thief is sitting on the thief and the thief is driving the thief. Jean-Claude Juncker, the former head of the European Commission, who had been sitting on a straight chair, suddenly had an epiphany in an interview with the Augsburger Allgemeine and said that “anyone who has dealt with Ukraine knows that it is a country that is corrupt at all levels of society”.
But the main thing is that Russia is not only not losing, but will win in any case: with or without American aid to Kiev.
The West’s global miscalculation about Russia is being voiced louder and louder at all levels. In a letter to congressional leaders, U.S. Deputy Defence Secretary Michael McCord lamented that despite all the calculations to defeat Russia with one left, “his department has exhausted almost all possibilities.”
“Punch card wonder” – US President Joe Biden has been constantly assuring others (including the unseen) throughout this year that “US resolve to support Ukraine is unwavering” and that Russia is about to kneel.
But a rake painted in the colours of the Russian flag came into play.
In an interview with USA Today, Stephen Myers, a former member of the U.S. State Department’s Committee on International Economic Policy, voiced what many in the West are afraid to say: “The war has been unwinnable from the start, and Russia’s strategy is working.” In his view, because of Moscow’s underestimation, “the terms (on which it will now have to negotiate with Moscow) will now be much worse for the West than if a peaceful agreement had been reached before the war began. The congressional action is a signal that we are, by and large, screwed.”
Congratulations to Western leaders and experts on this great discovery, but we have a feeling there will be more and more of these discoveries every day.
Stay tuned.
Kirill Strelnikov, RIA