I pity anyone who has to fight in these NATO-armed proxy forces. From the Iraqi, Afghan and Saudi armies to the Syrian rebels and now the Ukrainians practically being forced to fight Russia at gunpoint, they have been spectacular failures. Their western handlers clearly don’t give a shit about their well-being, they just want to own Russia/Iran/China/whichever is the neocon boogeyman of the day.
The war is lost for Ukraine because every single tactical encounter is brutally stacked against them.
They did competently score armor kills in the early stage of the war when Russia was mostly concerned with covering as much ground as possible. A moving army is vulnerable to ATGM ambushes and artillery kill zones. But now Russian strategy is completely different, it’s one positional battle after another relying on sheer fire power. Ukraine has withdrawn all its remaining armor and artillery to population centers and its poorly equipped and poorly coordinated army is just holding fortified positions waiting to be annihilated. Their attempts to ambush Russian forces are thwarted by drone vigilance and routinely fall to counter-attacks.
The wisest thing Ukraine could do is abandon Washington’s deluded scheme of using the war to “weaken Russia” and instead sue for peace for the sake of its people. They’re not going to be able to weaken Russia even with all the western weapons and mercenaries they’re getting, and worse still, since both the military and economic wars against Russia have essentially failed NATO is likely to resort to unpredictable and poorly planned acts of escalation to try to get the upper hand, and that’s not a scenario in the middle of which the country wants to be stuck.
It was abandoned because the scandal accomplished nothing and an investigation isn’t in Ukraine/NATO’s interest.