Ukraine war at a stalemate? Will the West fight to the last Ukrainian?

In early November, Ukraine's commander-in-chief, General Zaluzhny, acknowledged that the Ukraine war had reached a stalemate. Since the summer, there have been few territorial advances on either side. Ukraine’s counteroffensive, which began in early June, has not produced the expected outcome. In Ukraine, military morale is declining. Dissatisfaction in civil society and tensions within the country's elite are growing. It is becoming increasingly clear that Ukraine cannot win the war militarily and regain the territory it has lost in the east and south.

Genuine peace talks are possible only between Russia and the U.S. The core of the war has always been Ukraine's NATO membership. Russia will accept nothing less than Ukraine's neutrality. Moscow will not allow Ukraine to become a military outpost of the U.S., nor will it accept the deployment of U.S. nuclear missiles on its border. Russia will not end its military operations without an official commitment from Ukraine that it will never join NATO and will not allow foreign troops to be stationed on its territory.

The Biden administration has called Russian demands unacceptable. A war of position and attrition plays into the hands of the West because it is not directly involved. The U.S. and its European allies are determined to fight the war to the last Ukrainian. The goal is to turn Ukraine into an anti-Russian unsinkable aircraft carrier, similar to Israel, in Eastern Europe - a "big Israel," as President Zelenskyy once put it. The U.S. and the EU have pulled most of Ukraine out of Russia's orbit and are now busy integrating the country into the American Empire.