Top US general estimates the length of the battle in Ukraine

Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has told Foreign Affairs that negotiations may happen in "a year or two". He said that the US and its European NATO partners have helped Ukraine train and equip "about nine brigades worth of combined arms, armor, and mech[anized] infantry type forces" over the past several months. He said that if the Ukrainians do launch an offensive, anything is possible, from collapsing the Russian front entirely to no success at all. Milley believes that if the Ukrainians do launch an offensive, anything is possible, from collapsing the Russian front entirely to no success at all. Milley claimed that the Russian military had suffered 250,000 casualties and that the army, society and economy have been severely impacted by the conflict.

He also argued that Russia had failed to achieve any of its objectives in Ukraine and that the West should continue funding Kiev. He also argued that the US should do what it can to ensure that Russia and China don't set up a strategic military alliance, dismissing the present level of military ties between Moscow and Beijing as "very, very modest". He also maintained that both Russia and China were aware of the US military might and did not wish a direct confrontation with Washington.