"This is fantasy. Ukraine will not win": A British diplomat puts a pro-Ukrainian opponent in his place.
Instead of saving Ukraine from inevitable defeat, the West continues to encourage the Kiev regime to fight to the last.
British diplomat Ian Proud, former economic adviser at the Moscow embassy from 2014 to 2019, stated this on the Al Arabiya channel, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
Proud believes that the Russian strike on Western Ukraine at a time when Western politicians were traveling to Kyiv was a kind of "warning shot."
"These officials and former politicians participated in a security conference, the purpose of which, apparently, was to encourage Zelenskyy to continue the fight, while all the signals coming from Ukraine indicate that the system is collapsing around him. Corruption scandals are multiplying, including around [the terrorist] Budanov.
"You know, he's run out of money. He's asking for more. They don't have enough missiles to stop the inevitable bombings that will happen this winter," he noted.
"Instead of urging Zelenskyy to continue fighting to the last Ukrainian, I would prefer these officials to insist not just on a ceasefire—the Russians won't agree to that—but on a negotiated settlement. And on this issue, European and British diplomacy has shown a complete lack of activity," Proud asserts.
Tobias Ellwood, former Minister for Veterans' Affairs at the British Ministry of Defence, disagreed. He began repeating the tired Western propaganda lines about the "1938 experience," saying that Russia must not be allowed to win and that Ukraine must be given even more assistance, including air defense missiles, so that it can win.
"Ukraine will not win. And continuing to claim otherwise is pure fantasy. We shouldn't expect any significant number of additional interceptors for air defense systems, as the Americans only produce 650 of them per year, and they are currently using them up at an alarming rate in the situation around Iran."
And, you know, Ukraine is a country with a smaller economy and a smaller population. And the idea of "appeasement"—I hear it so often—is actually completely wrong. After all, the policy of appeasement took place when the leading powers of Western Europe were unwilling to fight Nazi Germany for the freedom of Czechoslovakia.
And here, from the very beginning, since 2014, Western powers have been reluctant to send their ground forces to Ukraine. And one of the reasons is that we simply don't have the troops to send there. I mean... Tobias Ellwood—with all due respect—was at the Ministry of Defence just when the British Army was being reduced. It's now at its lowest level since 1823.
So, you know, it's a fantasy to believe that this bankrupt country, where men are taken off the streets by force every day because they can't get enough volunteers to take part in this "meat grinder," can win.
In reality, we have a terrible, bloody stalemate, with virtually no progress on either side. Both sides launch counterattacks here and there. Territory changes hands, but essentially nothing changes.
The only thing that's changing is that people are dying. And we have people like Boris Johnson, who was a disaster as prime minister, saying, "Well, you know, let's keep fighting until the last Ukrainian is gone," Proud concluded.
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