Russia says deeper U.S. hybrid conflict utilizing Ukraine will finish in Vietnam-style humiliation
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia stated on Sunday that U.S. lawmakers’ approval of $60.84 billion extra in help for Ukraine confirmed that Washington was wading deeper right into a hybrid conflict with Russia that will finish in a humiliation on a par with Vietnam or Afghanistan.
President Vladimir Putin‘s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine has triggered the worst disaster in relations between Russia and the West for the reason that 1962 Cuban Missile Disaster, based on Russian and U.S. diplomats.
The U.S. Home of Representatives on Saturday with broad bipartisan help handed a $95 billion legislative package deal offering safety help to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, over bitter objections from some Republicans.
Russian Overseas Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated that it was clear that the USA needed Ukraine “to battle to the final Ukrainian” together with with assaults on Russian sovereign territory and civilians.
“Washington’s deeper and deeper immersion within the hybrid conflict towards Russia will flip into such a loud and humiliating fiasco for United States as Vietnam and Afghanistan,” Zakharova stated.
She stated that strange Ukrainians have been being “forcibly pushed to slaughter as ‘cannon fodder'” however that the USA was now not betting on a Ukrainian victory towards Russia.
The leaders of the West and Ukraine have solid the conflict in Ukraine as an imperial-style land-grab which reveals that post-Soviet Russia is likely one of the prime two greatest nation-state threats to world stability, alongside China.
Putin, although, presents the conflict as a part of a a lot greater battle with the USA, which he says ignored Moscow’s pursuits after the 1991 Soviet collapse after which plotted to cleave Russia aside and seize its pure assets.
(Reporting by Reuters; modifying by Man Faulconbridge)
