Russia Crises US Assistance To Ukraine, Connects It To Humiliation In Vietnam, Afghanistan

Russia stated on Sunday that US senators’ backing for $60.84 billion in further aid to Ukraine indicated that Washington was plunging even deeper into a hybrid war against Moscow that would end in humiliation comparable to the Vietnam or Afghanistan conflicts.

According to Russian and US diplomats, President Vladimir Putin’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine has triggered the biggest fallout in Russia-Western relations since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.

On Saturday, the US House of Representatives enacted a $95 billion legislative package giving security assistance to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, over strong opposition from some far-right Republicans.

Maria Zakharova, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, stated unequivocally that the United States wanted Ukraine to fight to the last Ukrainian including with attacks on Russian sovereign territory and civilians.

“Washington’s deeper and deeper immersion in the hybrid war against Russia will turn into a loud and humiliating fiasco for the United States such as Vietnam and Afghanistan”, Zakharova continued.

Russia, she warned, will respond unconditionally and resolutely to the United States’s decision to escalate its involvement in the Ukraine war.

US Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns cautioned last week that without additional US military backing, Ukraine could lose on the battlefield, but that with support Kyiv’s forces could hold their own this year.

The United States has repeatedly denied deploying its own or other NATO-member troops to Ukraine, which is engaged in a grinding artillery and drone war with Russia along a heavily fortified 1000 kilometres (600-mile) front.

The US lost roughly 58,000 military troops during the 1955-75 Vietnam War, which culminated with Communist North Vietnam’s victory and occupation of the South, while hundreds of thousands of civilians were slaughtered.

The United States recorded 2,459 killed and nearly 20,000 wounded in Afghanistan’s 2001-2021 war, which ended with the withdrawal of US-led coalition forces and the Islamist Taliban regime regaining power.

The Soviet Union lost 14,453 troops during the 1979-1989 war in Afghanistan. Both wars in Afghanistan claimed a large number of civilian lives.

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