Early last year, Putin sent troops into Ukraine, sparking a war that killed or injured hundreds of thousands of people and became the biggest confrontation between Russia and the West in six decades.
The West has given Ukraine more than 246 billion US dollars in aid and weapons, but Ukraine’s counterattack was not successful, and Russia still controls up to a fifth of Ukraine’s territory, according to the Reuters news agency.
“Ukraine will become a ‘black hole’ absorbing more and more resources and people,” said Sergei Naryshkin, head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), in an article published in the SVR’s “Intelligence Operative” magazine.
“Ultimately, the United States risks creating a ‘second Vietnam’ for itself, and every new American administration will have to try to deal with that,” he said.
US President Joe Biden has warned that a direct confrontation between NATO and Russia could lead to World War III and has repeatedly ruled out sending American troops to Ukraine.
The Vietnam War was essentially an East-West Cold War conflict in which the United States, along with South Vietnamese forces, fought against the North, backed by the forces of Communist China and the Soviet Union.
The war, which killed several million people, ended in 1975. With the victory of North Vietnam and the shameful defeat of the United States, which lost more than 58,000 of its troops, a powerful anti-war movement arose in the country.
On Wednesday, Mr. Biden asked Republicans to provide new military aid to Ukraine.
“If V. Putin occupies Ukraine, he will not stop,” said J. Biden, predicting that V. Putin will continue to attack the NATO ally.
Then, J. Biden added, “we will have what we don’t want and what we don’t have today: American soldiers will fight with Russian soldiers.”
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2024-08-17 23:31:04