Bleak Intel Assessment of Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Could Cast Pall on Fall Aid Measures

A U.S. Air Force general says making F-16 squadrons battle-ready could take ‘four or five years.’

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President Zelensky addresses the Danish people from the steps of Christiansborg palace at Copenhagen, August 21, 2023. Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix via AP

Most everyone had an idea that pushing Russia out of Ukraine would be a long slog, but as the summer draws to a close the war’s outcome is looking so uncertain that it will call into question the American-led response to the war machine that President Putin unleashed on Ukraine nearly 18 months ago. 

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