An American military analyst, erstwhile United States Marine Corps intelligence officer and UN inspector for arms control in Iraq, Scott Ritter, commented in an extended interview with “Polish Thoughts” on the visit of the president of the United States to Warsaw.
– We have another visit from Joe Biden to Poland. Do you think he and his administration intend to say something crucial about the war in Ukraine?
– The president of the United States does not travel abroad for no reason. He just doesn't come out of Washington. Time isn't random either, due to the fact that it's the anniversary of the start of peculiar Military Operations. We are so dealing with a symbolic layer of this visit. The statements must so coincide with a symbolic date. I would look at president Biden's erstwhile statements relating to the current situation. Let us be clear what is happening in Ukraine now. The strategical goal of the United States is to weaken Russia. Victoria Nuland talks about Russia's strategical failure. Chief of Staff Mark Milley shared the impression that Russia had already been defeated strategically and tactically. These are fantasies. Russia wins. In fact, according to Jens Stoltenberg, she already won. In a war where a peculiar emphasis is on artillery, if 1 side lacks ammunition, the another side will be the winner. In summertime Ukraine will end with artillery ammunition. NATO has no possible to deliver it. It's over. Regardless of the Western vote on Russia, everyone already knows that Ukraine is defeated. The Russian Army has become stronger and is preparing an offensive that will simply flood Ukraine. It will be demilitarized armedly. So if we compare rhetoric with reality... I think the president knows that NATO and Europe are looking forward to further American support, even under the conditions of Russia's strategical triumph in Ukraine. If the current trend continues, he will declare sending more troops to Poland in the form of permanent bases. possibly it will be a brigade, or possibly more to heal Polish wounds. I believe that Poland has become besides powerfully active in Ukraine's fight. She believed that NATO could arm Ukraine to the degree that it would win the war with Russia. Poland is only now beginning to realize that there will be no Ukrainian victory. Russia, which Poland points out and which it has embarrassed, will shortly stand at Polish borders and look at it through binoculars.
Poland talks about expanding its armed forces. But let us be honest: militarily Poland is not in the European lead. She's far from that. The head of the United States Command in Europe (EUCOM), General Christopher Cavali frankly said last period in Sweden that what is happening in Ukraine has a scale and size that we were never able to imagine. And we're not ready for that. If the head of the American forces in Europe says so, then Poland is not even at all ready to do so.
Matthew Piskorski spoke
The full conversation will be available from 23 February.
