Ukraine: rockets and policy

There is reason to suspect that the very slow drip-feed of American weapons to Ukraine is deliberate, and is intended to keep the Ukrainian government from winning too soon or too big. Better that both sides exhaust themselves and arrive at some sort of compromise peace deal.

Russian Vladimir Putin, pictured meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden via videoconference, on Dec. 7, 2021, two months before Russia invaded Ukraine. Gwynne Dyer says the Ukrainians might actually lose this war as a result of the slow drip-feed of American weapons to Ukraine, in which case Biden would have to choose whether to save them by direct military intervention or not.Photograph courtesy of Commons Wikimedia

Opinion

BY Gwynne Dyer

June 16, 2022

LONDON, U.K.—How would we know if the United States is deliberately starving Ukraine of weapons in order to force it into a compromise peace settlement that leaves some Ukrainian territory—maybe even a lot—in Russian hands? You can imagine the White House having such a strategy, though it wou...

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