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MOSCOW — Russia mentioned on Sunday U.S. lawmakers’ help for $60.84 billion extra in support for Ukraine confirmed that Washington was wading a lot deeper right into a hybrid struggle in opposition to Moscow that may finish in humiliation on a par with the Vietnam or Afghanistan conflicts.
President Vladimir Putin’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine has touched off the worst fall-out in relations between Russia and the West because the 1962 Cuban Missile Disaster, in keeping with Russian and U.S. diplomats.
On Saturday, the U.S. Home of Representatives handed with broad bipartisan help a $95 billion legislative package deal offering safety help to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, over bitter objections from some far-right Republicans.
Russian International Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova mentioned it was clear that the US wished Ukraine “to combat to the final Ukrainian” together with with assaults on Russian sovereign territory and civilians.
“Washington’s deeper and deeper immersion within the hybrid struggle in opposition to Russia will flip right into a loud and humiliating fiasco for United States corresponding to Vietnam and Afghanistan,” Zakharova mentioned.
Russia, she mentioned, will give “an unconditional and resolute response” to the U.S. transfer to get extra concerned within the Ukraine struggle.
U.S. Central Intelligence Company Director William Burns warned final week that with out extra U.S. navy help Ukraine might lose on the battlefield, however that with help Kyiv’s forces might maintain their very own this yr.
America has repeatedly dominated out sending its personal or different NATO-member troops to Ukraine, which is preventing a grinding artillery and drone struggle with Russia alongside a closely fortified 600-mile entrance.
Washington’s deeper and deeper immersion within the hybrid struggle in opposition to Russia will flip right into a loud and humiliating fiasco for United States corresponding to Vietnam and Afghanistan.
–Maria Zakharova, Russian International Ministry spokeswoman
America misplaced greater than 58,000 navy personnel within the 1955-75 Vietnam Struggle, which ended with Communist North Vietnam’s victory and takeover of the South, whereas a whole bunch of 1000’s of civilians had been killed.
Within the 2001-2021 struggle in Afghanistan, the U.S. reported 2,459 useless and over 20,000 wounded within the battle which ended with the withdrawal of U.S.-led coalition forces and return to energy of the Islamist Taliban motion.
The Soviet Union misplaced 14,453 personnel within the 1979-1989 struggle in Afghanistan. Civilian deaths in each the wars in Afghanistan had been huge.
Ukraine struggle
Russia now controls about 18% of Ukraine — within the east and south of its neighbor — and has been incrementally gaining floor because the failure of Kyiv’s 2023 counter-offensive to make any critical inroads in opposition to Russian troops dug in behind minefields patrolled by drones and guarded by heavy artillery.
Ukraine has for months been begging the US to launch extra money and weapons to assist it combat, although Russian officers have asserted that U.S. support is not going to change the last word course of the struggle.
Zakharova mentioned that abnormal Ukrainians had been being “forcibly pushed to slaughter as “cannon fodder” however that the US was now now not betting on a Ukrainian victory in opposition to Russia. Washington, she mentioned, hoped Ukraine might maintain on till the U.S. presidential election in November.
The U.S. legislative package deal consists of measures that may enable the U.S. to grab billions of {dollars} value of Russian property frozen by sanctions imposed on Moscow. That, mentioned Zakharova, was merely “theft,” including that the true beneficiaries of the entire package deal had been U.S. protection corporations.
The leaders of the West and Ukraine have forged the struggle in Ukraine as an imperial-style land-grab displaying that post-Soviet Russia is likely one of the high two greatest nation-state threats to world stability, alongside China.
Putin presents the struggle as a part of a wider wrestle with the U.S., which he says ignored Moscow’s pursuits after the Soviet Union’s 1991 break-up after which plotted to cleave Russia aside and seize its pure sources.
The West denies that it needs to destroy Russia, which in flip denies that it intends to invade any NATO member state.
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