Grim realization settles in over state of Ukraine war as Washington fights over funding | CNN Politics announces spring counteroffensive 2025

So this article says give today money to Ukraine to give Ukraine more money in 2025

Another official told CNN that they specifically pointed to air defense systems and artillery ammunition as examples of key capabilities that could be depleted without US support.

They will depleted even with US help, Russia prepared a plan B and C for AD

But House Speaker Mike Johnson, who along with other House Republicans has tied additional Ukraine funding to a broader immigration deal, said afterward that continuing to fund Ukraine risked turning it into a quagmire for the US akin to its two-decade war in Afghanistan.

Well Russian best case scenario the fight will end in 2026

“We cannot spend billions of dollars without a clear strategy articulated and I told the president in the meeting today again, as I've been saying repeatedly, ‘Sir, you have to articulate what the strategy is. What is the endgame?'” Johnson said Wednesday night in an interview with CNN's Kaitlan Collins.

Never got any answer from all those pro khohols how is Ukraine supposed to win against Russian turtling strategy?

No matter what happens in American politics this year, US and Western intelligence officials believe that Russia's war in Ukraine is likely to go on for much longer.

Of course it will go longer, last khohol won't die in 2025

Assessments vary, but virtually all of them assume that there will be at least two more years of fighting, according to multiple sources familiar with the intelligence — long enough to outlast Biden's first term. Privately, some US and Western officials say there could be as many as five more years of fighting.

Yes five more year is more realistic but by that time will average burger support sending more to Ukraine if now a lot less support it than in 2022 or will khohols that are left be eager to fight ?

Ukraine is expected to spend this year working to bolster its defense industrial base and rebuild its forces in anticipation of even more fighting in 2025, the US official said— a strategy that Russia is likely to focus on as well.

“That's why continued Western support is so critical, as this next year will be when everything is done that will decide how 2025 and possibly beyond play out,” this person said.

Another attempt at a major counteroffensive by Ukraine, with the goal of splitting the Russian forces at the southern occupied city of Melitopol, is likely still at least two years away, said the US military official stationed in Europe

Oh I bet that will work this time

So 2 years from here, that would mean kids that were 17 in Feb 2022 will be 22 and happy living in Germany instead of being mobilised

Ukraine reserves will be literally dried out and they will rush into positions that 3 years ago they couldn't break and Russia had 3 more years to fortify those and khohols will do exactly what Russian want.

Ukraine is also struggling to recruit new troops, especially in the wake of a grueling attempted counteroffensive that cost thousands of lives.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a news conference last month that his military had proposed mobilizing an additional 450,000 to 500,000 men to join the war, but that he had not yet authorized the plan because it will cost Ukraine billions.

And now imagine we are 2 years in the future

“The mobilization of an additional 450,000 to 500,000 people will cost Ukraine 500 billion hryvnia [$13 billion] and I would like to know where the money will come from,” Zelenskyy said. “Considering that it takes six Ukrainian working civilians paying taxes to pay the salary of one soldier, I would need to get 3 million more working people somewhere to be able to pay for the additional troops.”

So in 2 years those 500k will be wiped out and Ukraine will need another 500k soldiers so 3 million more worker so at least 6 million new total worker for a country with extremely declining population and no young women and children

In the near term, Ukraine may be able to hang on, albeit in a stalemate, without US support, a Western intelligence source said. But that would still be a significant loss not only for Ukraine, but also for the US' standing in the world, this person said.

“It shows [Russia] they were able to take territory and shows other nations they can take territory by force,” this person said. “The whole point here is to show that in today's day and age, major powers cannot just go and take territory by force.”

When Russia started that in 2022 it didn't wanted to capture territory just replace khohol gov with more friendly one so it's west that pushed to that conclusion because for one moment they legit believed just because khohols are r-slurs that didn't gave up that they going to win against Russia.

No wonder arestovitch now daily b-word about that Ukraine needs a way out and not drag it.

Biden administration in 2022 told time is on Ukrainian side and he also told back then his sanction going to cut Russian economy in half

So pro khohols what's the plan ? Lubing the bussy to take another L after Afghanistan ? It's always great starting a conflict with only philosophical ideas how to win it and no practical one.