The conflict between Russia and Ukraine has been going on for a long time, and the two sides have attacked each other on the line of fire, but have not achieved a clear advantage. The military aid of the United States and Europe to Ukraine has not kept up, and the escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has also made Ukraine lose the attention of the West. Ukrainian ** Zelensky constantly calls on the West to continue to support him, and even wants to increase his influence by visiting the Middle East. However, the United States ** believes that Ukraine may be defeated in 2024 and suggests that Ukraine change its strategic goals and negotiate peace with Russia.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin visited Kyiv at a critical moment and gave a speech in which he expressed his continued support for Ukraine. However, he only announced $100 million in aid, the lowest amount of U.S. aid to Ukraine since the war began, showing that U.S. aid to Ukraine is decreasing.
The outbreak of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has made Zelensky an outcast of the West, and no one cares about his situation anymore. He wanted to visit Israel, but Israel rejected him, believing that he was just trying to use the opportunity to hype up and not help Israel in any way. Zelensky disappeared on the West, his scenery is no more, only disappointment remains.
Kirby of the U.S. Commission said that U.S. military assistance to Ukraine was hampered by the House of Representatives, and the U.S. request was not passed. He said the U.S. has run out of previously approved aid funds and now has some tough decisions to make. He also said that from the point of view of the United States, it is still necessary to support Ukraine, but now it is not the White House that has the final say.
At the same time, according to the Global Times, the German people held a rally in Berlin to demand that Germany **stop supplying ** to Ukraine and reduce military spending. The rally was supported by all walks of life in Germany, with demonstrators holding up slogans such as "Education not bombs, NATO equals war", **NATO provoked the conflict, calling on Germany** to stop supplying ** to Ukraine, and promote Russian-Ukrainian peace negotiations. Since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, European sanctions against Russia have caused dissatisfaction in German society, and the mood of the people has become more and more intense.
Some EU proposals to aid Ukraine have also been blocked, indicating that EU support for Ukraine is also decreasing, adopting a wait-and-see and stop-loss attitude, which is in line with the changes in the United States. The European Union plans to provide Ukraine with 50 billion euros in economic aid and 20 billion euros in military aid, but major countries such as Germany oppose military aid, which leads to the failure of military aid. EU diplomats say the aid could fail completely. This means that the EU may think that there is no hope for Ukraine anymore, and it will not help to continue to support it, so it chooses to stop losses in time. The EU does not want its previous support to be in vain.
Although the EU has promised to support Zelensky and help Ukraine join NATO to jointly fight Russia, over time, this commitment has gradually revealed its false side. At the meeting of EU defense ministers, although it was still said that they would support Ukraine, the actual aid plan became vague and there was no real action. Zelensky may have failed to correctly assess his place in international politics because he expects too much from Europe. Zelensky's optimism appears weak in the face of the harsh realities of international politics, and his blind trust in the EU seems to have forgotten the eternal truth in international relations: national interests always prevail over moral debts.
Due to the reduction of US and Western aid funds to Ukraine, the Ukrainian army is becoming more and more passive on the battlefield and is no longer capable of launching a large-scale offensive. The commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, Zaluzhny, admitted that the Ukrainian battlefield is at a stalemate. However, U.S. Zelensky is not satisfied with the status quo and demands that the Ukrainian army have results every day. At the end of the year, there must be significant results. Only in this way can the confidence of Western countries in Ukraine be restored. The United States ** in 2024 is coming, if the Ukrainian army can regain some lost ground before the United States**, it will get more support from the United States, and it can indirectly prove that Biden's strategy for Ukraine is correct, and the number of American voters who support Biden may increase.
Faced with the difficulties of the U.S. aid program, Ukraine** may look for other ways out. Talking to the former Trump becomes a possible option. Trump's foreign aid during his presidency had some political clout, and his support may be able to solve the current dilemma. This also highlights the individualization of leaders in international affairs, and its impact on foreign policy cannot be ignored. However, such an option is also risky. Trump's foreign policy has often been more personal, and he has taken a more isolationist stance on international affairs. As a result, relying on Trump's support could plunge Ukraine into a more complex geopolitical landscape.