Does the US Actually Want Ukraine to Defeat Russia?

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Ukraine's 2023 fighting season is drawing to a close under a cloud of unmet expectations. Its soldiers and citizens, who are steeling themselves for a Russian winter blitz, will not be warmed by the memories of summer success, Kyiv's long-awaited counteroffensive operation having failed to achieve the breakthrough needed to collapse Moscow's occupation of the south of the country. President Volodymyr Zelensky and top commander General Valerii Zaluzhnyi have admitted Ukraine's shortcomings. "There will most likely be no deep and beautiful breakthrough," Zaluzhnyi said in an interview with The Economist earlier this month. Zelensky, meanwhile, told citizens that "all attention...