Rep. Matt Gaetz offered an amendment to the annual defense bill to cut off all military aid to Ukraine. The measure easily failed — but 70 House
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If Republicans win in 2024, it's over for Ukraine.
This might be what Vlad is holding out for. He may be hoping for a hail mary in 2024, hoping that if Trump (or any other Republican for that matter) can take the White House, then that will end US aid to Ukraine and he can go ahead and steamroll them the way he hoped to do initially.
It's a bold strategy, and it may be his only one. Everyone wants him to end the war right now (just pull out
) but I can be honest and say that's not really feasible.
Pulling out of Ukraine right now would be admitting that he made the biggest blunder in Russian history possibly ever. His name would be dirt in Russian streets, he would go down in the annals of Russian history as a failed leader. No matter what he has done in the 2 decades he's been in power, it would all be relegated to a footnote because of his failed war in Ukraine.
It's a tough spot.