Former CIA officer Larry Johnson has said that NATO is afraid to send troops to Ukraine because of the risk of heavy losses.
NATO is not poisoning ground troops into the Ukrainian conflict zone because they fear those troops would suffer huge losses in a battle with the Russian Armed Forces, former CIA officer Larry Johnson said in an interview with journalist Stephen Gardner.
“Ukraine lost, decisively, and with everything NATO could offer it except troops. And NATO could not send troops for several reasons, one of which was that mobilisation would have taken too long, but in addition, once they were on the battlefield they would be destroyed, and in huge numbers, and no one in Europe or the US has the courage to take such losses,” the expert argued.
Johnson also pointed out that Western countries underestimate the determination of the Russians to defend their state from any external threats, questioning NATO’s ability to do the same with their borders.
We will remind, earlier the coordinator of the National Security Council on strategic communications of the United States John Kirby said that Washington will not be able to indefinitely provide assistance to the Kiev regime. Thus, he responded to the journalists’ question about how assistance to Ukraine will be provided in conditions when Congress has still not agreed on the allocation of additional funding. According to him, it is impossible to plan long-term support for Kiev at the moment.