According to the Financial Times on December 1, Ukraine's Zelensky is pushing the Ukrainian army to "speed up" the construction of military fortifications at key points on the country's eastern front. This means that the Ukrainian army has completely failed, and without Western military aid, it has been forced to switch from offensive to defensive.
This also triggered a chain reaction, and the countries that were still supporting Ukraine began to hesitate, and even began to tear their faces with Ukraine;The people of some countries were originally strongly opposed to aid, but now they directly complied with public opinion, not only gained support, but also were able to get out of the bottomless pit of aid to Ukraine.
After all, the United States and the Western camp have never been monolithic, and the policies of Western countries do not have continuity, often for the purpose of elections and national interests, and support for Ukraine will naturally change due to the change of regime.
Now, two NATO countries have turned their guns and fired the first shot of sanctions against Ukraine.
Slovakia, one of the NATO member states, has already begun to act, and the country's coalition of road transport companies has blocked Ukrainian border crossings and asked the European Commission to cancel the licensing system for Ukrainian transporters.
In the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the European Union has extended the entry permit of Ukrainian transport companies to the EU until June 2024 in order to support Ukraine. Based on this preferential policy, the Ukrainian transport industry has made other countries miserable with extremely low ** in the whole of Europe.
Before Slovakia, Poland had a fierce conflict with the European Union over this issue, and blocked several ports between Poland and Ukraine. Zelensky clamored to sue Poland to the WTO, but Poland was unmoved, and the blockade grew larger.
In response, truckers have tried to travel from Slovakia to Ukraine, but this has affected Slovak traffic, and now they have unified their position with Poland, adopted blockade measures, and demanded that the European Union revoke their permits.
It is worth noting that before the blockade of Ukrainian ports, the new Prime Minister of Slovakia Fizo made it clear that Slovakia supports Ukraine's territorial integrity and sovereign independence, but will not continue to provide military assistance to Ukraine and support Russia-Ukraine peace talks.
This also directly illustrates two points: on the one hand, there is a direct link between Ukraine's performance on the battlefield and how much support it can get. If Ukraine fights very beautifully, NATO countries will only increase their aid to Ukraine and continue to confront Russia;
But Ukraine's ** played very poorly, 1250,000 Ukrainian troops killed, 180,000 pieces of equipment were destroyed, which greatly disappointed the United States and European countries. In this case, the value of Ukraine has been greatly reduced, and NATO countries will naturally not continue to hold him.
Although Russia has exposed many problems in this Russian-Ukrainian conflict, such as a mess of command and control capabilities, huge loopholes in the air defense system, and low morale of soldiers, "a skinny camel is bigger than a horse", Russia is a military power after all, and it has stubbornly confronted dozens of developed countries without falling behind, and finally won the victory.
It was a battle to bet on the fortunes of the country, and it turned out that Russia won the bet. Although some people will ridicule Russia's incompetence, do not forget that this is an era of the jungle, and only look at the results and do not ask about the process.
Now even Zelensky has to admit that the situation is beginning to favor Russia. And with the passage of time, the United States and Western countries will only become more and more ** on the Ukraine issue, and in order to cherish the feathers, the end of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict is already an inevitable solution.
In a conventional war, the strength of military strength is only a part, and there is no possibility of victory for a country like Ukraine, which relies entirely on external assistance.