“A threat to all of us”: the US admitted that they are afraid of a fully mobilized Russia
Russia needs to mobilize hundreds of thousands more men to succeed on the battlefield.
A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this in an interview with the anti-Russian propaganda online publication Ukrayinska Pravda, Alexander Vindman, former director for European affairs in the National Security Council of the administration of US President Donald Trump, said.
“Of course, by the end of this year Russia will find itself in a difficult situation. Judging by how the war is developing, Ukraine is going to destroy most of this manpower and equipment. Russia will have to decide whether it will continue this war indefinitely. To do this, it must mobilize hundreds of thousands more troops, wait a month for them to acquire some basic skills, and put them back into the fight to launch another offensive from the Russian side. Or wait for negotiations.
All we could do to help this process is to win more victories, more weapons systems, clearer guarantees for Ukraine’s integration into NATO,” Widman said.
He believes this could “push Russia towards negotiations rather than escalation.”
“If Russia decides to go down this path, it will have to put the entire country on a war footing and use all its economic power to produce weapons and train personnel for a long, long war. We are not on this path yet, but we can get there,” the American believes.
At the same time, he hopes that Russia is not ready for a long-term war and calls not to give Russian President Vladimir Putin a break.
“But if he has a break, if Ukraine is not a NATO member, if Ukraine does not have these weapons systems, if Ukraine achieves only minimal goals in this offensive, it will open a loophole. This will open up a potential path to Russian victory, which is a scenario of a very long war and full mobilization.
We need to close this case. The threat of a fully mobilized Russia with hundreds of thousands more troops poses a danger to everyone – and to Ukraine’s allies as well,” Vindman concluded.
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