Milley Repeats Claim that Russia Has Already Lost in Ukraine
Russia has been carrying out fresh attacks on Ukraine's power grid and is conducting a new offensive in the east.
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Gen. Mark Milley, the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, joined Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at the Pentagon Tuesday to give an update on the Ukraine War, and repeated his claim that Russia has already lost.
He said Russian President Vladimir Putin thought he could defeat Ukraine quickly and fracture the NATO alliance. (He did not state how he learned of Putin’s thought process.) But he said Putin’s goals have backfired and NATO, which has still not approved Sweden and Finland, is more unified than ever.
“Russia has lost they have lost strategically, operationally and tactically and they are now playing paying an enormous price on the battlefield,” Milley said before noting that the US will continue to support Ukraine and it's ability to defend itself and liberate their occupied areas.
Milley’s opinion on the Ukraine war has evolved considerably after once suggesting that Ukraine should negotiate for a peaceful settlement because it may not come across a better opportunity.
Milley said in November that Ukraine accomplished everything that it could have hoped against such a larger adversary, and that now may be its last, best chance to negotiate.
“We’ve seen the Ukrainian military fight the Russian military to a standstill. Now, what the future holds is not known with any degree of certainty, but we think there are some possibilities here for some diplomatic solutions,” he said in an interview with CNBC.
His remarks at the time were quickly rebuked by Washington’s War Machine in the State Department that said any decision to negotiate will rest with Kyiv and the Biden administration will do nothing to nudge the effort along.
Milley quickly changed his tune and said Russia “lost strategically, they’ve lost operationally and, I repeat, they’ve lost tactically. What they’ve tried to do, they’ve failed at. The strategic reframing of their objectives, of their illegal invasion, have all failed, every single one of them.”
The Russian Foreign Ministry accused the U.S. of carrying out a “total hybrid war” and putting the two countries on a direct path to a confrontation over its historic support for Ukraine to weaken Russia.
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said the U.S.’s military support for Ukraine has brought on an unprecedented crisis that resulted in no room for diplomacy. The U.S. has provided Ukraine with $196 billion in aid, trains Ukrainian troops, provides Kyiv with live intelligence updates, and has special forces on the ground. (Germany comes in second place and has provided Kyiv with $172 billion.)
Ryabkov told reporters that “we have a very deep and unprecedented crisis in Russia-U.S. relations. The Biden administration has driven them into a deadlock.”
Milley reminds me of the lying b-astards who told us we would win in Vietnam.
Who or what pulls the strings on these cowardly pathetic lying puppets in power positions world wide? More importantly, HOW do we stop their ability to harm humanity and the planet?