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A |     Scott Ritter, a military analyst and former US Marine Corps intelligence officer, told Sputnik on Thursday that NATO’s policy of giving Ukraine billions of dollars in weapons that so quickly get destroyed is “inefficient and counterproductive” from both a political and a national security point of view.,“The more Europe invests its military capacity into Ukraine, the weaker Europe gets,” Ritter said.,Proxy Wars Are Expensive,“I think there's a couple of things at play here. One, and I think first and foremost, is that Europe has bankrupted its own military capacity by transferring military equipment to Ukraine in an unconstrained manner. It's becoming clear to all that Ukraine is facing a very difficult time on the battlefield. Weaponry is being provided by Europe, by the United States, by NATO, and this weaponry is not being absorbed in a coherent manner by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Instead, it's being received and rushed to the front where it is not being used effectively and increasingly it's being destroyed by the Russians. This is very expensive, very inefficient. It's detrimental not only to Ukraine's military capability but also the nations providing the equipment. They're literally stripping bare their own inventories to support Ukraine in a losing cause,” Ritter explained.,“The second part of this equation is, not only is this inefficient and counterproductive from a national security standpoint, but it's expensive and counterproductive from a political standpoint,” he said. “I think the political cost of supporting Ukraine is about to become very, very high.”,“Many political leaders in Europe now are going to be facing an increasingly hostile constituency, demanding answers as to why their leaders committed: a) economic suicide by joining in on a failed sanctions effort; b) are further bankrupting the nation by stripping bare their own arsenals, requiring them to expend money to restock. This is an expensive proposition. And c), supporting what is increasingly being documented as a very corrupt and, frankly speaking, vile regime in Kiev.”,Kiev’s Mask is Slipping,Ritter noted how Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “is no longer seen as the savior” by Westerners. “More and more, he's being seen as what he has always been, an incompetent politician operating way above his capabilities.”,In particular, he recalled how a damning CBS documentary about the conflict was partially retracted earlier this month after it revealed that some 70% of equipment given to Ukraine never reaches the battlefield, either because the Russians destroy them or because they’re sold off on the black market. Forthcoming trials in Mariupol can also be expected to further peel back the Western myths about the Azov Regiment and other neo-Nazi units being anything but fascists.,© AP Photo / Alexander ZemlianichenkoRussian soldiers walk inside the Ukraine's Azov Regiment base adorned with the unit's emblems in Yuriivka resort settlement on the coast of Azov Sea not far from Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, May 18, 2022Russian soldiers walk inside the Ukraine's Azov Regiment base adorned with the unit's emblems in Yuriivka resort settlement on the coast of Azov Sea not far from Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, May 18, 2022© AP Photo / Alexander Zemlianichenko,“It's a horribly corrupt regime. It's also a regime that is being linked to an odious ideology, the old ideology of Stepan Bandera - a neo-Nazi, right wing, ultra-nationalistic ideology responsible for the murders of hundreds of thousands of people in the years of World War II and the decade afterwards, people who terrorized, murdered, raped ethnic Russians in the aftermath of the Maidan coup that took place in 2014,” Ritter noted.,“I think you're seeing Europeans starting to recoil from this and saying ‘This is not what we want to be seen as supporting.’ All of this, when you bring it together, explains why people aren't willing to continue to dispatch military equipment to Ukraine.”,Ritter dismissed the idea that Berlin and Paris could continue to send weapons to Kiev at the same pace that they have been. In this area, too, they will soon be eclipsed by Washington.,“Military equipment is not produced with the snap of a finger. And it requires a budgetary process. It requires careful coordination with the industrial base, and equipment is procured over the course of several years. What Europe has done by providing this equipment to Ukraine is in one fell swoop, in a matter of months, they've taken decades of military procurement and transferred it to Ukraine with no plan on how to replace it. You can't just simply pick up the phone and say, ‘give me a hundred more tanks,’ ‘give me a hundred more artillery pieces.’ It doesn't work that way. They have literally destroyed the very fabric of their national security by stripping bare their coverage with no means of replacing this. They've already bankrupted themselves. There's really not that much left they can give to Ukraine,” he explained.,‘This Can Only Be Resolved Politically’,Ritter said EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell is “out of his competency level” in commenting on military affairs, especially in making claims like “This war will be won on the battlefield.”,“You weren't going to see a general talking about that in that way,” he noted. “Fact is, most military people said that this can only be resolved politically, this being the conflict in Ukraine. Borrell is way off base. He's out of his competency level and he's just playing wrong. Who's going to solve this on the battlefield? What military in Europe today is capable of standing toe to toe with the Russian military in Ukraine and beating them? And the answer is none. There's nobody that can do this.”,Ritter said Germany and France, the two powerhouse NATO nations in continental Europe, are “paying a horrific economic price” and political price for their efforts to bring the US back firmly into the NATO fold, following four years of vacillation by former US President Donald Trump.,© AP Photo / BelTA, Andrei StasevichNormandy format talksNormandy format talks© AP Photo / BelTA, Andrei Stasevich,“[N]ow the United States has committed to NATO and has committed NATO to this horrendous mistake: that is the expansion into Ukraine, the confrontation with Russia, and this very expensive proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, that NATO is losing and losing decisively,” Ritter said. “But there's a lot of politics at play here. And it's not as a matter of just simply snapping your fingers and saying, ‘Okay, we've made a mistake, we're done, we're going to now reexamine a new European security framework.’”,Ritter recalled Berlin and Paris were also key guarantors of the Minsk Accords, which were supposed to settle the Donbass conflict in the context of autonomy for the Russian-speaking regions.,“It's not only that they failed to pressure Ukraine. It appears, according to [Petro] Poroshenko, the former president of Ukraine, that they were complicit in a scheme that used the Minsk Accords as a sham method to extend the negotiations, knowing they would never be finalized, to buy time so that NATO could train Ukrainian Armed Forces so that they would be in a position to be able to retake all of the Donbass and perhaps Crimea,” Ritter noted.,“Germany and France were part and parcel of this effort, so they need to be careful. They're very exposed here in terms of the politics of that. But reality is reality. And the reality is that the current European security framework, dominated as it is by American national security interests, is unsustainable for Europe,” he said. “They are paying a horrific economic price and they will probably pay a political price. Some of these leaders that are in power today won't be in power in the coming months as their citizens rise up through the democratic process and remove them for incompetence and for pursuing bad policies.”,“The last problem is Russia sort of owns the notion of European security framework having defined it, and their needs and their requirements in December of last year, through two draft treaties shared with NATO and the United States. For Germany and France to pursue a new European security framework would mean that they are stepping away from the United States and stepping toward Russia. That's very politically difficult to do, no matter how justified it might be.”,© Sputnik / Sergei AverinEight years of conflict have left a mark: it will take decades to demine the territory of the republics. Photo: A warning sign at a position near the line of contact with Ukrainian forces near Spartak village in the Donetsk region.     Eight years of conflict have left a mark: it will take decades to demine the territory of the republics. Photo: A warning sign at a position near the line of contact with Ukrainian forces near Spartak village in the Donetsk region.     © Sputnik / Sergei Averin,‘Somebody Else is Going to Have to Seek Peace for Them’,Ritter said that, like World War II after the Battle of Kursk, everyone knows that Ukraine has lost. The question is whether or not the government in Kiev is capable of making peace; he predicts not.,“It's going to be a victory in accordance with all of the prerequisites accomplished - demilitarization, de-Nazification and NATO removed from Ukraine. Russia has also now appeared to put some territorial requirements,” Ritter said.,“The key question is, how does this end at some point?” he asked. “There's going to be a need for a political collapse in Kiev, where the current cadre of warmongers and nationalists have to be removed. They will not seek peace. Somebody else is going to have to seek peace for them.”,“I think it's becoming clear that the current regime in Ukraine cannot be entrusted to govern in a responsible fashion, and I think Russia's taken it as part of their policy that they will protect ethnic Russians going forward, which means that they will probably acquire additional territory in Ukraine where ethnic Russians live. This takes time. It's not going to happen overnight. As much as Russia is winning the war, there's still a very strong Ukrainian military on the field that's receiving military assistance from the United States and NATO. So there's a lot of work left to be done.”。    2026年8月22日，第五人格IVL夏季赛总决赛第三轮的比赛结束。在当天的比赛中， FPX.ZQ以1胜3平1负（22:20）的比分击败北京WBG，以下是本场比赛战报。第一局比赛上半轮：北京WBG求生者对阵FPX.ZQ监管者北京WBG的求生者选择了飞行家、“逃脱大师”、魔术师、古董商；FPX.ZQ的监管者DongX选择了“台球手”。

B | （BAN祭司、气象学家、教授、弓箭手）开局“台球手”选择追击飞行家，并将其击倒送椅。守椅战中，魔术师和“逃脱大师”轮流救下飞行家，下椅的飞行家继续牵制，“台球手”将古董商击倒送椅。中期“逃脱大师”成功救下古董商，密码机破译完毕。在开门战中，“台球手”将“逃脱大师”击倒送椅，古董商成功救下“逃脱大师”，“台球手”依次将古董商和“逃脱大师”击倒，最终完成平局。第一局比赛上半轮双方以2:2的比分打平。第一局比赛下半轮：FPX.ZQ求生者对阵北京WBG监管者FPX.ZQ的求生者选择了木偶师、弓箭手、飞行家、“逃脱大师”；北京WBG的监管者N1e选择了“跛脚羊”。（BAN咒术师、古董商、大副、守墓人）开局“跛脚羊”选择追击“逃脱大师”并将其击倒送椅。守椅战中，木偶师和飞行家轮流救下“逃脱大师”，下椅的“逃脱大师”被击倒淘汰。中期飞行家被击倒，送椅途中弓箭手成功救下飞行家，密码机破译完毕。在开门战中，“跛脚羊”将弓箭手击倒，随后使用传送击倒木偶师，完成二抓。第一局比赛下半轮双方以2:2的比分打平。第二局比赛上半轮：FPX.ZQ求生者对阵北京WBG监管者FPX.ZQ的求生者选择了幸运儿、魔术师、教授、野人（BAN“女王蜂”）；北京WBG的监管者N1e选择了杂货商。

C | （BAN空军、幻灯师、气象学家、大副）开局杂货商选择追击魔术师，并利用闪现将其击倒送椅。守椅战中，教授成功救下魔术师，下椅的魔术师被再次击倒送椅，杂货商成功拦截野人救援，魔术师被淘汰。中期杂货商将教授击倒，密码机破译完毕。开门战中，教授被送椅淘汰，野人通过地窖逃生，完成平局。第二局比赛上半轮双方以2:2的比分打平。

D | 第二局比赛下半轮：北京WBG求生者对阵FPX.ZQ监管者北京WBG的求生者选择了“心理学家”、咒术师、木偶师、野人（BAN“女王蜂”）；FPX.ZQ的监管者DongX选择了杂货商。（BAN幻灯师、教授、气象学家、守墓人）开局杂货商选择追击咒术师，并将其击倒送椅。守椅战中，野人和木偶师轮流救下咒术师，下椅的咒术师被 击倒淘汰。中期双方周旋一番后，密码机破译完毕。开门战中，杂货商将木偶师击倒，完成平局。第二局比赛下半轮双方以2:2的比分打平。第三局比赛上半轮：北京WBG求生者对阵FPX.ZQ监管者北京WBG的求生者选择了先知、弓箭手、斗牛士、守墓人（BAN“女王蜂”、歌剧演员）；FPX.ZQ的监管者DongX选择了蜡像师。（BAN幻灯师、幸运儿、气象学家、病患）开局蜡像师选择追击弓箭手，并将其击倒送椅。守椅战中，守墓人成功救下弓箭手，下椅的弓箭手被再次击倒送椅，求生者放弃救援，弓箭手被淘汰。中期守墓人被击倒送椅，先知成功救下守墓人，蜡像师将斗牛士击倒送椅，先知成功救下斗牛士，守墓人被击倒送椅，蜡像师依次将斗牛士和先知击倒，完成四抓。第三局比赛上半轮FPX.ZQ以5:0的比分领先。

E | 第三局比赛下半轮：FPX.ZQ求生者对阵北京WBG监管者FPX.ZQ的求生者选择了古董商、“心理学家”、气象学家、大副（BAN“女王蜂”、时空之影）；WBG的监管者N1e选择了“台球手”。（BAN先知、幻灯师、“法罗女士”、前锋）开局“台球手”选择追击“心理学家”并将其击倒送椅。守椅战中，大副和气象学家轮流救下“心理学家”下椅的“心理学家”被击倒淘汰。中期“台球手”将气象学家击倒，不久后密码机破译完毕。在开门战中，“台球手”将古董商击倒送椅，随后“台球手”击倒气象学家，大副成功救下古董商，“台球手”将大副击倒送椅，最终完成平局。第三局比赛下半轮双方以2:2的比分打平。第四局比赛上半轮：FPX.ZQ求生者对阵北京WBG监管者FPX.ZQ的求生者选择了咒术师、医生、祭司、佣兵（BAN歌剧演员、“女王蜂”）；北京WBG的监管者N1e选择了“喧嚣”。（BAN先知、幻灯师、入殓师、勘探员）开局“喧嚣”选择追击医生，并利用移行将其击倒送椅。守椅战中，祭司和佣兵轮流救下医生，随后密码机破译完毕。在开门战中，医生被击倒淘汰，求生者完成三跑。第四局比赛上半轮FPX.ZQ以3:1的比分领先。第四局比赛下半轮：北京WBG求生者对阵FPX.ZQ监管者北京WBG的求生者选择了气象学家、拉拉队员、“法罗女士”、大副（BAN梦之女巫、“女王蜂”）；FPX.ZQ的监管者DongX选择了歌剧演员。（BAN幸运儿、祭司、“囚徒”、空军）开局歌剧演员选择追击“法罗女士”，并将其快速击倒送椅。守椅战中，气象学家成功救下“法罗女士”，随后气象学家被击倒送椅。中期大副成功救下气象学家，双方周旋一番后，密码机破译完毕。在开门战中，歌剧演员将气象学家击倒送椅，“法罗女士”成功救下气象学家，歌剧演员将拉拉队员击倒，求生者完成三跑。第四局比赛下半轮北京WBG以3:1的比分领先。第五局比赛上半轮：FPX.ZQ求生者对阵北京WBG监管者FPX.ZQ的求生者选择了杂技演员、“囚徒”、火灾调查员、守墓人（BAN时空之影、“女王蜂”）；北京WBG的监管者N1e选择了歌剧演员。（BAN机械师、入殓师、先知、斗牛士）开局歌剧演员选择追击“囚徒”，并将其击倒送椅。守椅战中，守墓人和火灾调查员轮流救下“囚徒”，下椅的“囚徒”被击倒淘汰。中期火灾调查员被击倒送椅，杂技演员成功救下火灾调查员，歌剧演员将杂技演员击倒，守墓人成功救下火灾调查员后被击倒送椅，火灾调查员被击倒，周旋一番后歌剧演员依次击倒杂技演员和火灾调查员，最终完成四抓。第五局比赛上半轮北京WBG以5:0的比分领先。第五局比赛下半轮：北京WBG求生者对阵FPX.ZQ监管者北京WBG的求生者选择了医生、前锋、杂技演员、入殓师（BAN“女王蜂”、“跛脚羊”）；FPX.ZQ的监管者DongX选择了时空之影。（BAN机械师、幻灯师、幸运儿、玩具商）开局时空之影选择追击入殓师，并将其快速击倒送椅。守椅战中，入殓师使用灵柩返生，随后入殓师被闪现击倒送椅，前锋成功救下入殓师，随后下椅的入殓师被击倒淘汰。

F | 中期杂技演员被击倒，密码机破译完毕。开门战中，时空之影将前锋击倒送椅，时空之影将杂技演员击倒，最终完成三抓。第五局比赛下半轮FPX.ZQ以3:1的比分获胜。最终，FPX.ZQ以1胜3平1负（22:20）的比分击败北京WBG，获得本场比赛的胜利。

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