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Zelensky's trip to Washington taught him what the world is hot and cold!
Due to the continuous defeat of the Ukrainian army on the battlefield, Zelensky's visit to the United States this time only received $200 million in military aid from Biden, which is just a drop in the bucket for the Ukrainian army that is struggling in the ice and snow, and it will not solve any problems at all.
What makes Zelensky even more frightened is that Biden's wording on military aid to Ukraine has changed radically, which means that the United States' support for Ukraine is no longer the rock-solid of the past, and the signs of the United States abandoning Ukraine have appeared!
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From "as long as it takes" to "as much as possible", the big trouble in Ukraine has finally come.
According to CNN, on the 12th local time, U.S. President Joe Biden met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who was visiting the United States. At a joint press conference with Zelenskyy, Biden said the United States would support Ukraine "as much as possible."
CNN reporters keenly captured Biden's change in the wording of military aid to Ukraine, and they said that this wording indicates a very subtle but noteworthy shift in Biden's aid to Ukraine, because his previous statement was that the United States will always support Ukraine for as long as it takes.
Ukraine's economy has collapsed, and Ukrainian government agencies and public utilities are completely dependent on U.S. economic aid to sustain their operations, and if the U.S. doesn't pay for it, the Ukrainian government simply can't sustain it, let alone fight against Russia.
Therefore, for Zelensky, seeking assistance for the long-term stability of the US government has become the top priority of his work. However, in this way, it is equivalent to the United States falling into the bottomless pit of Ukraine.
If the United States has been stuck on the battlefield in Ukraine for a long time, it is not so easy to say whether this war is for the United States to consume Russia by aiding Ukraine, or Russia to consume the United States by attacking Ukraine.
The contradiction of interests between the United States and Ukraine determines that the United States and Ukraine will inevitably break up to some degree at some point in time, and what Zelensky can do is to try to make this day come a little later.
Now that this turning point has arrived, the next step is to see how far the US military aid to Ukraine will shrink.
The point of Zelensky's trip to the United States is not that he received $200 million in military aid from Biden, but more importantly, he found that the United States does not want to give more.
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There are significant strategic differences between the United States and Ukraine over war plans for Ukraine in 2024
According to US media reports, the United States has sent Antonio Aguto, a three-star general of the United States, to Ukraine to coordinate the military aid to Ukraine and help Ukraine implement its new military strategy in 2024.
There is a lot to be said about the new military strategy of Ukraine in 2024.
Just a few days ago, Ukrainian Defense Minister Umerov spoke on Ukrainian television, in which he said that the Ukrainian army is carrying out a series of preparations, and these actions of the Ukrainian army will force the Russian army to leave Crimea permanently.
If his statement is true, it means that the Ukrainian army will continue to implement the counteroffensive strategy in 2024, and the intensity of the Ukrainian army's counteroffensive will be much greater than in 2023, otherwise it will be impossible to achieve the operational goals of the Ukrainian army he proposed.
According to US media reports, the new military strategy for Ukraine formulated by the United States in 2024 is mainly to strengthen defense and ensure that the Ukrainian army holds the main positions currently controlled.
Comparing the two military strategies, there is a huge contradiction between the two military strategies.
Even if the Ukrainian government understands that they are incapable of continuing a large-scale counteroffensive, they must find a way to make a big move to stabilize the morale of the military and win the support of Western countries, otherwise they will only have a dead end and no value in existence. So they can only develop an offensive military strategy.
The most important characteristic of offensive military strategy is that it costs money, and it spends a lot of money. The Ukrainian army spent nearly $200 billion on the big counteroffensive in 2023, and by the end of the year, it was also killed by the Russian army. If the Ukrainian army wants to defeat the Russian army, which has recovered from the chaos, on the battlefield in 2024 and occupy Crimea, the military spending that Ukraine needs to invest is absolutely sky-high, and there is no need to think about it without 500 billion dollars, but the United States does not want to pay for it at all.
Therefore, the United States can only formulate a new defensive military strategy for Ukraine, for no other reason and with the least amount of money. This is in line with Biden's statement that the United States will help Ukraine "as much as possible."
Whether it is the decision of the United States to reduce military aid to Ukraine, or the United States suggesting that Ukraine implement a defensive military strategy in 2024, this shows that the United States has shifted from advancing an aggressive offensive strategy against Russia to facing reality, and there is an opportunity for some degree of compromise between the United States and Russia in 2024.
Ukraine and Zelensky, as pawns, may eventually be abandoned by the United States and Europe because they have lost their use value.
There will never be a shortage of Ukrainian-style countries in this world, and although Ukraine has been shattered, it still can't wake up Filipinos who are pretending to be asleep!
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