Managing Expectations for the Ukrainian Counteroffensive

CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING — Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine final 12 months, the U.S. has allotted greater than $75 billion in navy, financial, and humanitarian assist to Kyiv, in what quantities to the biggest sequence of US-aid packages to a European nation because the days of Harry Truman’s Marshall Plan.

“We’ve given from the West the very best sort of preparation that we may give for this power,” mentioned former Supreme NATO Allied Commander, Gen. Wesley Clark. “[But] finally the best issue is more likely to be the willpower of Ukraine to regain its territory. It’s the need to combat, it’s the braveness of the troopers at each stage.”