According to a disturbing new report the U.S. and U.K. now believe that the current Russo-Ukraine war could last as long as 20 years, eventually resulting in a Russian defeat.
As The Week reports:
As the sun rises on a seventh day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a 40-mile-long Russian military convoy appears stalled about 20 miles north of Kyiv, and the Ukrainian-held cities of Kharkiv, Kherson, and Mariupol are encircled. Russia also intensified its bombing of cities on Tuesday, including in civilian areas. Footage “of the aftermath of a missile strike that hit Kyiv’s main TV tower and a nearby Holocaust memorial showed a gruesome scene of blown-out cars and buildings and several bodies on fire,” The Washington Post reports.
Despite Moscow’s “shambolic start to its military campaign, most Western officials and analysts believe Russia will turn to criminal siege tactics and eventually find a way to break through Ukraine’s fierce and valiant resistance,” Politico‘s Alex Ward writes. A U.S. official tells CBS News that Russia could tactically seize Kyiv and Ukraine in four to six weeks.
Still, “given the durability of the Ukrainian resistance and its long history of pushing Russia back, the U.S. and Western powers do not believe that this will be a short war,” CBS News reports. “The U.K. foreign secretary estimated it would be a 10-year war. Lawmakers at the Capitol were told Monday it is likely to last 10, 15, or 20 years — and that ultimately, Russia will lose.”
A long, drawn-out quagmire would obviously be bad for Russian President Vladimir Putin and for Ukraine’s citizens, but it also has repercussions for President Biden, CBS’s Margaret Brennan noted Tuesday night.
.@margbrennan on the two most immediate challenges President Biden has to contend with: a war in Ukraine and an economy with record inflation. pic.twitter.com/LHQYvM8WGt
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) March 2, 2022
The news is a far-cry from some of the earliest reports circulated by U.S. and Ukrainian journalists and officials which suggested that the Russian army might actually be quickly defeated.
The US and the Brits don’t know shiit about how long. This story is typical fodder.
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Already 20 nations aiding Ukraines Big time & with our Tech last 20 yrs?
No way
LISTEN UP….PUTIN Needs to be ARRESTED and EXECUTED before 20YRS TIME. HE Needs to be SENT to HELL for HIS WAR CRIMES. From SamuraiQueen. 😡😡😡
Putin’s a Fk Head and Biden isn’t far behind! Biden you caused another dilemma because you left Afghanistan giving the Taliban with billions in weapons and uncounted numbers of Americans behind.
I hope you die an unthinkable death — You Retarded Bastard!
More propaganda from laid stream media… Russia is taking down a corrupt government. US and UK kind stand having their honey hole taken away. Put in is only sending in small groups to take out local militias aka Nazi scum. 90% of his forces ???That’s laughable ! Oh, and they had to stop for a break ? Bahahaha…! This is far from a 20 year war, a few more weeks and mission accomplished. Bioweapon labs destroyed, government removed, Nazis crushed, peace and order restored. Put in already has food trucks coming in , replenishing civilians.
Stop watching MSM !!!! They lied/lying about the vaccine, who actually created it and it’s real purpose. They lied about Trump winning election, Russian collusion (paid for by Killary), they lie about the southern border, they lie about truckers convoy……See a Pattern ?! Wake Up !
To last more than a few years would require Putin’s successor to support this war, not likely.
Why do people bother thinking we will ever get a government who stays solid, conservative, honest, truly Christian and moral? After what they did to President Trump, what’s next???
More foolish talk – was this CNN or MSNBC -or the world health agency or maybe they got this from Faucci
in 20 years, what will be left but a field of rubble, that seems to appeal to Russia who is basically destroying their whole future to obtain Ukraine, apparently because they like owning useless land that they made useless. Next, onto the Baltic states to destroy them too, what a plan! Putin will get back all of these countries even if he has to bomb them into the stone ages, great example of a creator of nothing.
All who have aided putin should be arrested and charged with war crimes! biden crime family!