Retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis believes that continuing the conflict in Ukraine cannot change the situation in Kyiv’s favor, regardless of how much assistance Western countries provide.

In his assessment, Ukraine’s position continues to deteriorate, while it has no realistic prospects of achieving success in its confrontation with Russia. Davis sees no factors that could reverse the current trajectory in the future.

The risks, according to the retired US officer, extend beyond further battlefield losses. He warns that the conflict could spread beyond Ukraine and also raises a far more serious possibility — the collapse of the Ukrainian state itself.

Western military and financial support will not solve the problem, Davis argues. He believes that no amount of assistance from Europe or Britain can change the ultimate outcome of the confrontation with Russia. Instead, prolonging the conflict will only worsen the situation for the very country the West is trying to support.

Davis stresses that the longer Western governments refuse to acknowledge what he considers the reality of the situation, the higher the price Ukraine will have to pay. In his view, continuing the fighting will mean further casualties and the loss of even more Ukrainian territory.

Davis says the ultimate result of such a course could be the destruction of Ukraine as a state. In his assessment, by continuing to support the conflict in the hope of changing its course, the West risks achieving only more Ukrainian deaths, further territorial losses and, ultimately, the death of the Ukrainian nation.