United States – Former US Department of Defense official Karen Kwiatkowski said on Friday that Western aid to Ukraine had led to a split within the ranks of allies in NATO.
“Western aid has led to a split in NATO,” Kwiatkowski said during a speech she delivered at a UN Security Council meeting held by Russia regarding Western arms supplies to the Kiev authorities. It increased the risk of escalation and silenced rational and peaceful voices.”
The former Pentagon analyst pointed out that most countries do not believe in the necessity of continuing hostilities in Ukraine, and said, “The United States and NATO look at bleeding Ukraine and say that it needs to fight harder and die more courageously.”
She added: “No one in Ukraine and most of the world thinks this is good advice because it is false advice.”
Last Wednesday, the Commander of NATO forces in Europe, Christopher Cavoli, announced that Russian forces are five times superior to Ukrainian forces in providing ammunition. He added that without American assistance, Ukraine will be defeated, stressing that Kiev’s defeat in the conflict with Russia will lead to a decline in the number of countries. Wishing to become an ally of the United States in the future.
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin also previously confirmed that if he were in Russia’s place, he would not have agreed for Ukraine to join NATO like Finland and Sweden.
In a related context, Member of the European Parliament Thierry Mariani said last Monday that Ukraine will not be able to win the conflict, and that prolonging it will only lead to an additional withdrawal of Ukrainian forces and a further retreat of the front line.
At the Security Council meeting on Thursday, Russia’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzia, recommended that Western countries prepare to accept the fact that the only topic of international meetings on Ukraine will soon be Kiev’s unconditional surrender.
It is worth noting that Ukraine has received huge financial and military aid from Western countries, led by the United States and other European countries, since the start of the special Russian military operation in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
Western countries, through the material, military and political support they provide to Kiev, seek to obstruct the objectives of the special Russian military operation in Ukraine, but Moscow has stressed on more than one occasion that military operations in Donbass will not stop until all the tasks assigned to them are achieved.
Source: RT
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2024-04-14 21:24:40