Gen. Rajmund Andrzejczak, Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces, allowed some reality to show through during a discussion of the National Security Bureau (BBN) Strategic Debate in Warsaw on April 24. Despite being totally committed to Ukraine’s victory over Russia, Andrzejczak said Ukraine has little chance of emerging victorious, reported Sputnik. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_j8DXK7PlM)
“War always was, is … a matter of politics, and in its determinants has a substantial number of economic factors: finance, infrastructure issues, social issues, technology, food production,” etc., which “must be put into this box to understand this conflict,” Sputnik quoted the general as saying. “When I look at the conflict in Ukraine, I mainly see it through these political lenses, and unfortunately it does not look good.”
The senior officer explained that from the perspective of the coming one-two year period at least, there is “nothing” to indicate that Russia will not have the resources to continue operations. “Those financial instruments which it had before the conflict, the dynamics of spending, the effectiveness of sanctions, and the whole complex economic situation speak to the fact that Russia will have the money for this conflict,” he said.
