On February 20, according to the German news agency dpa, Germany's ruling coalition has prepared a secret proposal to provide Ukraine with more ammunition, vehicles and ** systems, which are scheduled to be voted in the Bundestag this week.
This proposal document states that "Ukraine needs to provide additional long-range ** systems and ammunition (......in order to be able to deliver targeted strikes on strategically important targets located in the rear of the Russian aggressor in accordance with international law".
Although Germany is now the leader of the EU's aid to Ukraine, and has become the leader of the aid to Ukraine after the delay of the US aid to Ukraine bill, Germany is still blank in providing long-range ** to Ukraine. This is naturally the Taurus cruise missile that Ukraine is looking forward to dismantling the Crimean bridge.
Of course, it is not realistic to let Germany provide Ukraine with Taurus cruise missiles alone, and the public opinion in Germany is at least not ready, but now, Biden has indicated that he is willing to meet with Speaker Johnson to negotiate the aid to Ukraine bill, and the White House ** also disclosed that it will transfer 300 km range ATACMS missiles to Ukraine, Germany will not provide it first, but when the United States provides it, it basically does not have much resistance, just like last year when the two sides jointly provided Leopard 2 and Abrams.
As for why the White House gave Ukraine a big killer this time, one is naturally the defeat of the Ukrainian army in Avdiivka, which urgently needs to change the situation, and secondly, Navalny's death has completely deprived the West of the possibility of compromise with Russia, and Putin has gone all the way to the black, and no one can recover it; The most important thing is that the Republican Party's attitude towards aid to Ukraine is that either it will not provide aid or it will come big. As long as Ukraine wins, not to mention the F-16, even the F-35 can be given, which is completely different from Biden's so-called idea of playing a big chess game and slowly bleeding Russia.
In fact, the Ukrainian army killed and injured a large number of Russian troops on the battlefield, and still lost the Donetsk gateway Arkadiivka on the battlefield, which is the result of Biden's strategy of aiding Ukraine and slowing bloodletting to Russia, just like Zaluzhny, who has received Western military education, admitted his mistake: underestimated the Russian army's ability to withstand **, invested troops to defend towns and villages, and sacrificed a large number of Ukrainian troops, but failed to completely stop Russia's aggression.
In fact, the entire West underestimates Russia's endurance to bear the price, and no one knows the tipping point of its social collapse because of it. Of course, on the battlefield, Russia can mobilize many more soldiers than the Ukrainian army to play crowd tactics, but the Ukrainian army has changed its original tactics at least in 2024, that is, by striking at Russia itself, including St. Petersburg, Moscow, and energy infrastructure, so that those Russian elite residences can taste the taste of war.
As for the attack on the Russian mainland, the head of the Ukrainian Military Intelligence Agency, Budanov, commented on February 19 to the reporter of the French magazine "Libération" on "the transfer of the war to Russian territory and the related fears of certain political circles in the West":
I always say the same thing: those who fear that the war will be transferred to the territory of Russia should come here to express their fears. We can show them a large number of cities that have disappeared from the face of the earth. If they have anything to say after that, I would be happy to hear from them.
Incidents and cases related to the war in Ukraine will continue to occur in Russia;
We will see the intensification of everything that has already happened.
There is an old proverb: "Whoever comes with a sword will die by the sword."
Obviously, Budanov's words are directed at the top of the West, including Biden, and it is they who draw a red line for Ukraine not to use the ** attack on the Russian mainland that they provide, so it is the same they who delay the delivery of ATACMS missiles and F-16 to Ukraine, and on the already weak side, they are still tying Ukraine's hands and feet, and the war situation can be imagined, and more importantly, Russia has seen through the weakness of the West and Biden's hole cards, so that it can do whatever it wants.
After the beginning of the year, the Ukrainian army has hit Russia's energy export capacity by continuing to attack energy facilities in Russia, and the Russian army on the battlefield is indeed not afraid of consumption, but this is not the era of cold weapons, and when its war economic potential is exhausted, of course, it cannot only rely on the defenseless Russian army to charge.