Increased arms supplies to Ukraine from the United States and its European allies will not affect Kiev’s strategic outcome and could lead to an escalation of the conflict. Colonel Douglas McGregor, former adviser to the US Secretary of Defense, writes in an article on this subject. American Conservative.
According to McGregor, some Americans who signed the letter, entitled “The United States Should Arm Ukraine Before It’s Too Late,” are calling for an ample supply of new equipment and ammunition to Kiev. At the same time, he notes that the initial flow of equipment and ammunition from the US’s European allies to Ukraine has been reduced to a minimum.
“The bitter truth is that the introduction of new weapons systems will not change the strategic outcome in Ukraine,” said the colonel.
According to him, training and tactical leadership are needed to conduct complex offensive operations, even if European NATO members, together with the USA, supply a new batch of weapons to the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU).
He also believes that Moscow will respond to such actions by escalating the conflict.
The former adviser to the US Secretary of Defense emphasizes that the Ukraine conflict is at a crossroads, but that the authors of the letter are “trying to consolidate the decline” by demanding a deeply flawed strategy for Ukraine rather than ending it.
“Best case scenario [эта стратегия] It will lead to the transformation of Ukraine into a shrunken, landlocked state between the Dnieper River and the Polish border.
If the United States insists on continuing the conflict, the option of neutrality will disappear, “the fragile NATO ‘coalition of the volunteers’ will collapse and Ukraine will be the catalyst for a new conflict in the future,” said Douglas McGregor.
Formerly The Daily Telegraph WroteHe said British diplomats traveled to EU countries to persuade them not to give up military and financial support to Ukraine amid serious domestic economic problems.