Well isn't this interesting...
Field Marshal Lord Richards tells The Independent’s Sam Kiley that Ukraine has been given false hope by its Western allies and cannot triumph against Russia unless Nato forces join fight
www.independent.co.uk
Ukraine cannot win its war with Russia and should negotiate peace terms with the Kremlin, according to Britain’s most senior army officer.
Field Marshal Lord Richards said Kyiv will not be able to drive Vladimir Putin’s soldiers out of Ukraine without the help of Nato forces – who won’t get involved on the ground.
Lord Richards, who was promoted to the UK military’s most senior “five-star” rank earlier this year and led Nato forces during their troop surge in Afghanistan, said Ukraine’s allies have failed Kyiv.
“What we have done in the case of Ukraine is encourage Ukraine to fight, but not given them the means to win,” the former chief of the defence staff told The Independent’s podcast World of Trouble.
Reflecting on Ukraine’s chances of success against Russia, he said: “My view is that they would not win.”
“Could not win, even with the right resources?” he was asked.
“No,” he replied.
Pressed further by The Independent, he was asked: “ Even with the right resources?”
“No, they haven’t got the manpower,” the former commando said.
The field marshal’s intervention came after Volodymyr Zelensky flew to Washington DC to meet Donald Trump to try to persuade him to give Ukraine Tomahawk cruise missiles.
So, that's the head of the UK army stating that there's no hope of a Ukrainian victory unless NATO wants to get directly involved and put boots on the ground in a full scale war. Which they're not going to do unless they're even dumber than I think they are. Yet all the usual cheerleaders in this thread are still insisting that Ukraine is winning.
He failed to mention reality : west never wanted ukr to win any bare thing.
Never.
Therefore ofc Ukraine should be pro Kremlin oriented country and especially anti western oriented country.
Then they had good life.
Such decision ukr rulers should had made when westerners ( russias bottlemates in reality, opposition is for cinema scenes ) didn't had sold or supplied ukr any serious weapons. Anything serious.
So ofc they aren't friends.
Some small arms etc shit was ....mhmm.
Next : ofc reason wasn't NATO membership ambitions at all cos bottlemates never will allow this...
They just want to subjugate Ukraine...all other reasons are for guys like you.
☆ yes, west had removed navy ships from Black Sea before invasion even despite Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey are NATO member countries.
Such russian bottlemates in real life. Always will be.
So huelensky had some days to get what happens and that they are " sold "...might had called Putin and tell that west are peace of shit and useless for Ukraine.
This ofc only a bit might had delayed invasion. Still maybe some months time..
☆ after 24.02.2022 bottlemates talked nice talks, Russia yelled and....vuala, almost 0 weapons or ammo supplies, famous sanctions were a bit in reality started to implement in 08.03.2022
Also any more serious supplies were after some 2 weeks...
LOL, Such " friends ".
West never had intent to allow ukr to win anything, doesn't makes sense how much soldiers they had 0 or 1000000....
This realpolitik and real life____
It is just business and nothing personal.
