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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
There was never a realistic option to give enough to Ukraine to defeat Russia militarily. Personnel was always their biggest weakness and no amount of equipment was ever going to make up that difference. For obvious reasons, boots on the ground from the U.S. and/or NATO wasn't an option.
So yes, the strategy was always to give enough to Ukraine to keep them in it long enough to outlast Russia's economic resilience, domestic stability, or Putin's life, and the looming U.S. election was always a potential deadline.
The biggest lesson from all this is how the economic battle against Russia failed, and there are several reasons, not the least of it is that China, which is undeniably a world power, can make or break it. They basically did the same thing for Russia economically that the West did for Ukraine militarily. Gave just enough to hold them up until the U.S. election.
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It's too soon to say whether Russia will break economically before the war is over.
The war is not over, no one knows when it will be over, and no one knows how long Russia will last.