Biden Has No Viable Plan for Ukraine, Now is the Time for Peace: Vance
Biden wants to be able to blame 'right-wing' Republicans for his failure when Ukraine folds.
Ukraine does not have the forces it needs to defeat Russia and, even if it did, the U.S. cannot possibly provide the weapons it would need to fight back, Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, wrote in today’s New York Times.
“Ukraine’s challenge is not the G.O.P.; it’s math. Ukraine needs more soldiers than it can field, even with draconian conscription policies. And it needs more matériel than the United States can provide,” he wrote.
TRENDPOST: Vance correctly states that the Biden administration insists that Ukraine only needs another $60 billion from American taxpayers to be able to defeat Russia, which is absolute bullshit. We’ve said that this is just a tactic that the White House will use so that when Russia decides to end the war, it will be able to blame partisan politics for the failure.
This is also not true. The Trend Journal has said since the beginning of the conflict that Ukraine has no chance of defeating Russia unless NATO forces get involved and, like it or not, Ukraine is as close to joining NATO today as it was in 2022.
Vance wrote: “$60 billion is a fraction of what it would take to turn the tide in Ukraine’s favor. But this is not just a matter of dollars. Fundamentally, we lack the capacity to manufacture the amount of weapons Ukraine needs us to supply to win the war.”
Vance also criticized those in Washington who favor the war because of its own economic benefits in the U.S., with factory production lines humming along. He called that notion that a brutal conflict is good for business “grotesque.”
“The Biden administration has no viable plan for the Ukrainians to win this war. The sooner Americans confront this truth, the sooner we can fix this mess and broker for peace,” he wrote.
TRENDPOST: We remind our readers that in November 2022, Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, jolted Washington when he said Ukraine may want to consider peace negotiations. However, after being criticized for speaking about peace, he changed his tune and promoted more war.