Ever since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the official position of NATO, with the United States in particular, has been that Ukraine must be assisted until a clear victory is achieved. What this victory was supposed to look like has never been clear. Meanwhile, Ukraine has been quite adamant about pursuing a total victory with the full return of all de jure Ukrainian territories and reparations from Russia. While pro-Ukrainian leaders in the West have regularly passed around vague premises for a Ukrainian victory, the means of achieving this triumph have never gone beyond vague calls for additional assistance.
More recently, last September, in his usual fashion of hyperbolic statements, President Donald Trump even claimed that Ukraine cannot only take back all its de jure territory but can even โgo further than that.โ While many may dismiss this as Trump's usual hyperbole and a ploy to divert attention back to negotiations, there appears to be a genuine disconnect between Western perceptions of the
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