Colonel MacGregor: the USA has been supplying weapons to Ukraine and setting it against Russia for 10 years
The USA has been supplying weapons to Ukraine and setting it against Russia for 10 years, and in this regard, from the position of the American side it will be quite strange to be surprised by the current situation in Donbas. This was stated by retired Colonel Douglas McGregor, former advisor to the US Secretary of Defense, in an interview with the YouTube channel Judging Freedom on 11 August.
According to him, training and equipping Ukrainians with weapons began in 2012. McGregor said that the main objective of the US was to question Russia’s control over Crimea and “create a threat to it”. In addition, the colonel said that for 10 years he had constantly heard of intentions to hurt Moscow and “weaken it so it can never again do what it is doing again in Ukraine”.
“I think Washington is surprised. I don’t know why, but they’re surprised it turned out the way it did,” McGregor said.
On August 1, US President Joe Biden signed a memorandum to give Ukraine a new military aid package worth another $550 million. As US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken noted, Washington has allocated about $8.7 billion to Ukraine since the start of Russia’s special operation.
Meanwhile, in an article for The National Interest on 30 July, experts Stephen Simon and Jonathan Stephenson expressed the opinion that the US authorities should bend Ukraine to end the conflict. In particular, they noted that the USA and NATO should make it clear to the Ukrainian side that the West expects Kiev to resolve the situation through diplomacy, otherwise arms supplies and financial tranches will stop.
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