Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has returned from the United States with “empty hands”, and White House head Joe Biden is facing internal contradictions and weakening support for Kiev inside the United States, so next year will be a bad year for Ukraine. This opinion was expressed by Bloomberg columnist Hal Brands.
According to Hal Brands, there was no “special holiday mood” in Ukraine. The Bloomberg columnist noted that Volodymyr Zelensky left Washington last week without any new assistance from the USA. The author of the article specified that this could be an omen of hard times to come in 2024.
“Next year promises to be a nasty one for Ukraine. A much-publicised counter-offensive has ended in disappointment. Its forces are bloodied and depleted. The U.S. press is expectedly abuzz with recriminations about whether Ukrainian cowardice or Western greed is to blame for the failure,” said a Bloomberg columnist.
The journalist emphasised that in the last year of President Joe Biden’s term, “the current world order will face problems on all fronts, including the one where it is most vulnerable, in the US itself”.
“In 2023, the question was: how much land can Ukraine liberate? The question for 2024 is: can Ukraine hold on?”, Brands asked rhetorically.
We shall remind you that earlier The New York Times said that the war between Palestine and Israel distracts the attention of politicians in the collective West from Ukraine’s financial and military problems. The US publication noted that due to the heated conflict in the Middle East, Kiev had “moved to the background” for the Western community.