Under the US Strategy: How Kursk Operation can help finish war in Ukraine - FP
This was written in the article for Foreign Policy The leader of The Marathhon Initiative and the former assistant of the Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia in Donald Trump's administration Wess Mitchell. According to him, this will happen as part of a broader strategy for the sequence of geopolitical challenges of the United States to prevent wars against China, Iran and directly with the Russian Federation.
The article states that Washington has a chance to help Ukraine to force Russia to sit at the negotiating table, as well as to take time to re -arry the event. Then the states will be able to switch attention to the Indo-Pacific region. However, it is reported that US Presidential Administration Joe Biden should remove the restrictions on the use of US weapons by Ukraine.
This is better than an alternative to "drip" assistance, the expert believes that the offensive of the Armed Forces in the Kursk region is different from other operations of Ukrainian forces in Russia. First, it is much larger and contains elements of at least 5 brigades, including some of the best units of Ukraine trained in the West, as well as tanks, artillery, drones and fighters. Secondly, the offensive has become much deeper than in the past.
Although the details have not been confirmed, Ukrainians seem to control more than 70 settlements in Russia. According to Mitchell, surgery in the Kursk region revealed the weakness of Russia. Yes, its border is hardly protected. Ukrainians achieved strategic suddenness, moved the war home to their opponent.
Now, as reported, Russian President Vladimir Putin faces a dilemma: to reduce the value of the attack and send for the defense of the Kursk region of seizures, internal security forces and several front units, or try to knock out Ukrainian forces from the territory of the Russian Federation and strengthen the rest of the border, conduct their troops. Events in the Kursk region, according to Mitchell, are of strategic importance.
If Kiev is able to capture and keep the border regions of Russia, even on a small scale, Moscow will have to consider the possibility that it is vulnerable to more serious pain in its home. The expert believes that the United States is not ready to wage war against more than one great opponent at the same time. Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the US defense budget has remained relatively unchanged, while Russian has tripled.
China has used this time to protect its banking industry from sanctions, to refocus energy supply to routes that the United States cannot be easily disturbed, to increase shock forces near Taiwan. At the same time, according to the material, the United States tried hard to bring their defense-industrial base to a state that could at least support Ukraine. According to Mitchell, the Americans and their allies need to "wake up" and realize the reality and election.