The head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SWR) predicts the US will have a “second Vietnam” as a result of its involvement in Ukraine.
“Ukraine will become a ‘black hole’ that will absorb more and more resources and people,” Sergei Naryshkin said in the SWR’s internal magazine on Thursday. “Ultimately, the US risks creating a ‘second Vietnam’ and any new US administration will have to try to deal with that.”
During the Cold War, the Vietnam War was a kind of proxy conflict pitting East against West. The US fought on the side of South Vietnam against communist forces from the north, who were supported by the then Soviet Union and China. The war ended in 1975 with an ignominious defeat for the US and is still seen by many Americans as a national trauma.
Big fight in Washington
There is currently a heated debate in Washington about continued support for Ukraine. President Joe Biden has called on Republicans in Congress not to block the billions in funding he is asking for.
The Democrat warned that if Russian President Vladimir Putin takes over Ukraine, “he will not stop there,” but could also attack a NATO ally. That, in turn, would lead to something “we don’t aspire to and don’t have today: American troops fighting Russian troops.”
Source: Krone
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