NATO helps Ukraine fight, but not win — Foreign Policy.

The newspaper notes that the Russian army has recovered faster than expected after the first months of the full-scale war and is quickly learning to counter the Western high-tech weapons systems that Ukraine is receiving from its allies.

“Ukrainians need more than just what we have created to win,” said Admiral Rob Bauer, chairman of the NATO Military Committee, following the summit in Washington.

Liana Fix, a researcher at the European Council on International Relations, agrees with him:

“There is no real strategy. We, in fact, support Ukraine so that it remains combat-ready and achieves certain successes, but does not win the war.”

The publication notes that the West’s strategy seems to be to strengthen Ukraine’s defenses while waiting for Moscow’s exhaustion. The problem is that Russia is also trying to wait out Ukraine and its Western allies.

“To expect that the current level of support from allies can last indefinitely would be magical thinking. The challenge facing the Allies is greater than anything they have faced since the Cold War. It is not about keeping Ukraine in the fight in the long term, but about finding a way to end this war without sacrificing Ukraine,” says Eugene Rumer, director of the Russia and Eurasia program at the Carnegie Endowment.