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The Embassy
How NATO Helped Seal Ukraine’s Defeat Against Russia
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By
Daniel Davis
Published
2 days ago
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2025/02/how-nato-helped-seal-ukraines-defeat-against-russia/#
The NATO Dilemma for Ukraine: On February 25, 2022, one day after Russian troops invaded Ukraine, President Biden declared that “Putin’s aggression against Ukraine will end up costing Russia dearly — economically and strategically. We will make sure of that.” When the war is over and its history written, Biden concluded, “Putin’s choice to make a totally unjustifiable war on Ukraine will have left Russia weaker and the rest of the world stronger.”
Three years later, with Biden off the world stage following his defeat in last year’s presidential election, Putin and Russia are poised to win the war against Ukraine, despite the massive support given by the U.S. and NATO, and will end in a much stronger position.
How could this be? After the United States and Europe gave such extraordinary amounts of money and machines to Ukraine, after 40 nations assembled to support Ukraine against Russia, how could Ukraine have failed to win and how could Russia gotten stronger? Though there are a number of practical reasons, the core reason for this failure is as embarrassing as it is alarming: NATO bases its policies on a narrative while Russia based its policies on ground truth realities.
Lesson number 1 that NATO and the U.S. needs to learn is that wars don’t give a damn about your morality or values. In the minds of most European leaders and establishment figures in the United States, Ukraine was and remains in the moral right; in their rendering, Russia is evil and abhorrent. Russia, therefore, must lose and Ukraine must win, based solely on the mental construct that Russia = evil and Ukraine = good. Yet while European and American establishment figures and mainstream media live in that space, bombs, bullets, and bayonets could care less.
More here: https://www.19fortyfive.com/2025/02/how-nato-helped-seal-ukraines-defeat-against-russia/
It's nowhere near as bleak as the article portrays, but he's right in that many leaders of western countries seem to think the good guys will win based on "we're the good guys." Trudeau being a case in point of being mostly talk and very little do.
https://www.canada.ca/en/department...gns/canadian-military-support-to-ukraine.html
1 x NASAMS system
40,000 x 155mm shells - a week's supply.
Tanks - 8 Leopard 2's and 1 recovery tank (Canada still has 54 old Leopards)
4 x M777 howitzers and 10 barrels
200 Roshel Senators
39 armored combat support vehicles (ACVS),
50 armoured vehicles (2023-2025), a portion of which includes armoured medical evacuation vehicles.
Sept 2024 - Canada will donate 29 M113 chassis and 64 Coyote chassis to Ukraine from CAF inventory. These are retired. From 2022 to 2024 they sat there, being talked about. No work done to resusitate them.
Trudeau just announced 25 LAV III's. Taken from the 650 Canada has.
There's some other bits and pieces but that's it. So yeah, Canada is all talk and no delivery. What could they do? Send all the fucking Leopards. Ukraine could at least use them for parts and probably kluge a few workable ones from them. They ARE sending more Senators and Roshel is building a plant in Ukraine but that's long term. And they're really just armored battle taxis, useful, but not IFV's which is what Ukraine REALLY needs aling with artillery ammo and air defences
LAV III's are pretty useful but 25 are a drop in the bucket. Canada BUILDS them. Send 250 FFS. Enough to be useful. Canada can replace them. 25 is a token, and that's what Canada is doing. Sending "feel good" tokens. Trudeau and Canada are a prime example of what the author of this article is talking about.
Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Baltic States - they understand, and they are stripping the cupboard bare to support Ukraine. Finland just assigned Eu700,000,000 to build new equipment for Ukraine. Netherlands and Denmark are building a couple of hundred CV90 IFV's at $10,000,000 a pop. May take a while but THAT is helping. Going back to Canada, GM Canada builds LAV's. Why the fuck is Canada not already rolling new ones of the production line and shipping them to Ukraine. The only enemy they face right now is the USA and if Trump invades, they're toast anyhow. So yeah, send 250 LAVIII's today and replace them. But no, Trudeau is a do nothing feel-good weasal wording dick.
Heck, they could buy old Bradleys from the USA, fix 'em up and ship 'em out. They could have started that three years ago. They could do it tomorrow. But nope. That said, a lot of European countries seem to have finally clued in, esp. Germany, and the Nordic/Baltics, and the UK to a certain extent, as well as the Netherlands, France and Poland. So no, not anywhere near as bad as the article's author says. Altho why they heck they aren't fronting up cash to buy old Bradley's I have no idea. Same with old F16's - just buy the damn things - Trump is likely way more open to cash sales than Biden was.
And as for Mirage 2000's - France should be lining up more. Qatar has 12 of them up for sale. Greece has 17 old ones that were retired in 2021. Buy 'em back.
Tanks - 400 odd early model Challenger 1's - UK should buy them back (they were gifted free to Jordan, so the UK could probably get them back the same way), do a few mods and ship em to Ukraine. Now THAT would be useful. Ineptitude and lack of political will, that's what this is.
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