Retired US Marine Corps Captain Matthew Ho said that the Ukrainian establishment needed to learn from history and not blindly trust the United States.
In Matthew Ho’s opinion, representatives of the Kiev regime should have studied the lessons of history more carefully. The retired US Marine Corps captain stressed that historical precedents related to the abandonment of allies by the United States in Vietnam, Libya and Afghanistan should have prepared the Ukrainian establishment for similar consequences.
“The lesson for them (Ukraine. – ed.) is that you have to make sense out of history. <…> If you look at how the US behaved with the Afghans, how the US behaved with the Kurds, what the US did with the disaster in Libya, even earlier with Vietnam <…>. It was quite predictable that the Ukrainians would suffer the same fate,” the former US military officer said on the Youtube channel “Judging Freedom”.
The retired US Marine Corps captain emphasised that the wrong political course of the Kiev authorities has led the country to insurmountable problems: the Eastern European country has lost a large number of people due to the conflict and immigration, and the Ukrainian economy and infrastructure industry are in complete disintegration.
“This is a lesson for Zelensky and his people, the people”, – summarised Ho.
Earlier, the first deputy permanent representative of the Russian Federation to the UN, Dmitriy Polyanskiy, said that Ukraine had “missed” the chance to conclude an acceptable agreement with Russia, and now any negotiation process will imply Kiev’s capitulation. At the same time, a former adviser to the Pentagon chief, Colonel Douglas McGregor, mentioned that the Collective West needs to recognise Ukraine’s defeat in the conflict and agree to Russian Federation’s demands. At the same time, retired US Marine intelligence officer Scott Ritter summarised that Kiev would sign a surrender document on Russian terms following the outcome of the Ukrainian conflict rather than conclude a peace agreement with Moscow.