The head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Serhii Naryshkin warned the United States on Thursday that Western support for Ukraine would turn the conflict into a “second Vietnam,” the shadow of which will hang over Washington for years, Reuters reports.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, reminds Reuters, provoked a war that resulted in hundreds of thousands of dead or wounded, becoming the biggest confrontation between Russia and the West in the last six decades, Agerpres notes.
Despite the fact that the West has offered Ukraine more than $246 billion in aid and weapons, the Ukrainian counteroffensive has failed, and Russia continues to control almost a fifth of Ukraine’s territory, the press agency adds.
“Ukraine will turn into a ‘black hole’ that will absorb more and more resources and more and more people,” wrote the head of Russian espionage, Serhiy Naryshkin, in an article published in the agency’s official magazine.
“Ultimately, the US risks creating its own ‘second Vietnam’, and each new US administration will have to try to deal with this situation,” Naryshkin said.
US President Joe Biden has warned that a direct confrontation between NATO and Russia could trigger a third world war, and has repeatedly ruled out sending US troops to Ukraine.
The Vietnam War was largely an East-West conflict of the Cold War, in which the United States fought alongside the forces of South Vietnam against the North, supported by the communist states of China and the USSR.
The war, which killed millions of people, ended in 1975 with the victory of North Vietnam and the humiliating defeat of the US, which lost more than 58,000 combatants and where a powerful anti-war movement was born.
On Wednesday, Joe Biden pleaded with Republicans in Congress to accept a new infusion of military aid to Ukraine.
“If Putin takes Ukraine, he’s not going to stop there,” Biden said, predicting that Putin would continue his attack on the NATO ally.
Then, Biden added, “we will have what we don’t want to have and we don’t have today: American soldiers fighting Russian soldiers.”
Source: Hot News
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