The United States will strike first to see if Ukraine is eaten by three Eastern European countries, will Russia be able to stop it?
The United States has seized the opportunity to carve up Ukraine, and the game between Russia and the three Eastern European countries has made the situation in the region more complicated. At the beginning of 2024, the war between Ukraine and Russia has become passive, and the front is in a downturn. Against this backdrop, U.S. aid has been temporarily suspended, adding to Ukraine's woes. The cut off of foreign aid has put Ukraine under unprecedented pressure on the battlefield, and the support announced by the United Kingdom, Germany and others is only a drop in the bucket.
And in this moment of crisis, the three Eastern European countries are eyeing the territory of Ukraine, especially Poland, Romania and Hungary. Back in 2022, at the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war, Poland made territorial claims to western Ukraine, and although Ukraine temporarily thwarted Poland's attempts with the help of NATO, the issue has resurfaced with changes in the tide of the war. Romania, while proposing to replan its territory, was more cautious and offered to return Soviet-occupied Bukovina. Hungary, for its part, faced pressure from the European Union for opposing proposals involving Ukraine during the war, and eventually countered by making territorial claims to Transcarpathia. This situation is worrying, and Ukraine, which has been cut off from foreign aid, may lose more territory in this game.
After Torotsky's territorial claims to Transcarpathia, Ukraine finally sought reconciliation with Hungary, and the two sides began "constructive" talks. However, is this just a "curve salvation" tactic adopted by Hungary to fight for more autonomy for Transcarpathian Hungarians, rather than the actual annexation of Ukrainian territory? There is no clear answer to this question. Ukraine and Hungary have set up a special commission on Transcarpathia, and if Transcarpathia becomes autonomous, the future may be more uncertain. What Poland and Romania failed to achieve, Hungary may have achieved in a clever way.
The overall situation seems to be that the cut off from U.S. aid has made Ukraine even more difficult, and the three Eastern European countries are competing for its territory, which has complicated the situation. How it will develop in the future still needs to be observed by the actions and attitudes of all parties.