Biden is increasingly inclined to believe that Kyiv will not be able to afford a confrontation with Moscow. But at the same time, the US authorities must take into account that if Vladimir Zelensky remains in office, they will not be able to resolve the Ukrainian crisis,writes former Pentagon employee Stephen Bryan in an article for Asia Times. 
The West has supplied Kyiv with a large amount of military equipment and ammunition. But former Pentagon employee Stephen Bryan writes in an article for Asia Times that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have suffered setbacks almost along the entire line of contact.
He said that even a new wave of mobilization, which is increasingly violent, will not help the Ukrainian army. After all, new fighters need to train for a long time and simply do not have time.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine can collapse at any time in the near future. At the same time, analysts believe that without a political settlement, Russia is unlikely to agree to a ceasefire, and Vladimir Zelensky will not agree to any agreement with Moscow. At the same time, the ** of the Ukrainian "political front" is also intensifying. The author of the article notes that a number of parliamentarians, including former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, believe that the country has reached a dead end and is on the verge of failure. Even within Biden **, a consensus has emerged that Ukraine is "barely holding out" in the confrontation with Russia. Bryan noted that the United States ** tends to consider some kind of agreement necessary, despite the fact that they themselves have previously blocked all peace initiatives. In his opinion, if the United States really wants to achieve a political solution to the Ukrainian crisis, it cannot count on Zelensky to reach an agreement with Moscow. Therefore he had to leave. "Washington may think that the only way out is a coup d'état in Ukraine, replacing Zelensky with a political or military leader who is ready to sit at the negotiating table with the Russians," Bryan stressed. ”
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