Ukraine Is Only “Unwinnable” Because Of The United States

It never ceases to amaze me what the United States is able to do, and more specifically, what it can’t do. The United States military is so expansive that it can see Pentagon backed forces fighting CIA backed forces in Syria, but it is sadly too weak to protect Ukraine from Russian aggression. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will call a return to Ukraine’s 2014 borders unrealistic, but won’t share the same skepticism towards retaking the Panama Canal, invading Greenland, and performing an ethnic cleansing in Gaza. To the Donald Trump Administration, it seems like something being “realistic” is largely based on if the President wants to do it, as opposed to if something can truly be done.

Anybody who has studied the Military Industrial Complex can tell you the notion of the United States being unable to do anything in the realm of foreign policy being is downright absurd. It is lack of political will to help Ukraine — first among Republicans in Congress when Biden was President and now within the Trump Administration — which has caused this war to drag on without a clear Russian defeat.

The same day I write this article — 2/25/2025 — an article on Townhall by Robert Amsterdam with the headline “The Hard Truth About Ukraine,” has appeared which repeats the talking point debunked above. The article goes on to discuss human…