The end of U.S. global leadership – without Washington’s help, Kyiv will fall in 2025

The consequences of the United States ending aid to Ukraine would be simply catastrophic.

This is reported by The Washington Post.

The article’s author cites the opinion of political analyst Alina Polyakova, who predicts that “Ukrainians won’t stop fighting, but ultimately will lose the war without U.S. support.” This would mean that Russia will move closer to NATO and the EU, resulting in “frankly, the end of U.S. global leadership.”

Furthermore, the article’s author labels the U.S. inability to support Ukraine as “the greatest U.S. foreign policy mistake, at least since the invasion of Iraq in 2003.”

The expansion of Russian artillery and drones, as well as the density of Russian minefields, have doomed Ukraine’s counteroffensive to failure, the publication writes. If the disparity in capabilities continues to grow — which will be inevitable if U.S. aid is stopped — Ukraine will face the possibility of a Russian breakthrough. Sources quoted in the publication warn that Russia could attack Kyiv by 2025, and the Ukrainian armed forces would collapse by that time.

If the U.S. hopes that Europe will help Ukraine instead of them, essentially, they would have to deplete their own resources. This would create a situation similar to after the end of the Cold War, “the potential of the defense industry atrophied on both sides of the Atlantic.