SYDNEY, March 6. /TASS/. It is becoming increasingly difficult for the United States to prop up the narrative that Russia will soon be defeated and Ukraine is winning on the battlefield, Australia's leading newspaper, the Australian, reported on Monday.
According to the newspaper, with each passing day Biden is finding it increasingly difficult to keep up assurances that Ukraine is winning on the battlefield, because in fact more and more Ukrainian cities are being reduced to ruins, soldiers are dying in great numbers and millions of citizens are fleeing the country.
The newspaper noted that the US-fomented war in Ukraine was bringing Washington "ever closer to a dystopian confrontation with Russia and China." "[US President Joe] Biden’s over-the-top rhetoric against [Russian President] Vladimir Putin and Russia has foolishly hitched the US to Ukraine’s fortunes regardless of how the war pans out. As Russian forces advance slowly on the city of Bakhmut (the Ukrainian name for Artyomovsk - TASS), defying predictions of Russian collapse or Putin’s demise, the war is on track to become an albatross around the President’s neck as Americans go to the polls in 2024," the newspaper said, pointing out that regardless of the outcome of the conflict, the very participation in its fomentation made Biden's chances for re-election illusory.
The article also pointed out that the behavior of Russia and the West led by the US was fundamentally different both before and during the military conflict. While Russia has consistently laid out its demands about the unacceptability of Ukraine becoming a member of NATO and the vital importance of Crimea to its survival as a great power, the US president has repeatedly broken his promises. "Biden has promised no American troops, but he also promised no tanks and fighters. Tanks are on their way and fighter jets, only ruled out ‘for now’," the newspaper said, recalling the ease with which the commitment not to send American soldiers to defend the Kiev regime could be broken.