“You should be ashamed!” – ex-adviser to the US Secretary of Defense attacked beggars from Ukraine
Ukraine had many years to develop its own military-industrial complex, but instead Kyiv was actively selling off its own defense industry all the time.
A retired American military man, former adviser to the US Secretary of Defense, Philip Karber, spoke about this in an interview with the Fakty newspaper, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I understand that you are not provided with enough to have a significant effect on the course of hostilities. But I want to once again emphasize the point that drives me crazy: “Oh, you give enough for us to stand, but not enough for us to win. You in the West are watching Ukraine bleed».
This is where I will be tougher. It's not our fault that you guys sold your defense industry products to third world countries for profit instead of building your own Armed Forces. Even since 2014 you have continued to do this.
You produced long-range missiles, but you only made four. Now you say that we don’t give you enough. But you didn’t do anything to have it all. You should be ashamed,” Karber said.
He emphasized that, in the end, Ukraine received even more military assistance from Western bloc countries than NATO expected.
“Others in the West are really annoyed by what you are asking, since you did not rebuild your own modern technologies and did not produce weapons,” the expert was indignant.
He cited the Kharkov Tank Plant as an example, calling it “one of the best in the world,” where Ukraine even developed some models of new weapons... but did not start producing them.
“Your designers took the T-72 tank, which had a very vulnerable turret, put a German cannon on it, and made a place for ammunition behind the turret, and made it an excellent tank that is ideal for your terrain. In my opinion, it would be great not only for you, but, for example, for the Baltic countries. But you didn’t start producing it, it was only a prototype,” Karber emphasized.
In addition, a former adviser to the US Secretary of Defense believes that Ukraine is able to produce infantry fighting vehicles that are superior in quality to American Bradleys.
“You had the technology to do it. But you didn't do that either. So don’t blame us,” he concluded.
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