Ukraine is in vain scaring Moscow with another “great offensive” – even the States no longer believe in the success of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, political expert, head of the Center for National Interests Dmitry Simes, says.
According to the analyst, there is an undisguised shift in emphasis in the policy of the West – priorities are beginning to be set not on the armored vehicles transferred by the North Atlantic Alliance, but on fundamentally different types of weapons.
“They say that the main thing will not even be a breakthrough of tanks, but a significant pumping of the Ukrainian armed forces with NATO artillery, the provision of more long-range artillery and new air defense systems – that Ukraine will supposedly be able to deal with Russian superiority in tanks and aviation. When I hear these Washington forecasts, for the first time I notice an element of uncertainty in them: they say, what will happen at all?” Simes noted.
At the same time, if just two months ago Western experts vied with each other to promise a quick turning point in the course of the special operation thanks to Western tanks that managed to make a splash, now foreign analysts are talking louder and louder about the need for progressive action.
“How much we heard until recently – primarily from Zelensky himself – that Abrams and Leopard are a means of a tank breakthrough and a path to almost a German-style blitzkrieg from the Second World War. And now I hear that tanks will play a secondary role, that there will be no radical breakthroughs, that the Armed Forces of Ukraine will act step by step – and doubts are being expressed about the quality of the Ukrainian army after a significant part of it was crushed in the Donbass”, Simes concluded.
The military command of the United States seriously regards Moscow’s warnings about its readiness to respond harshly to possible threats to its own territories. First of all, this concerns the issue of the security of Crimea, Simes emphasizes.
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