Posted on 04/06/2022 2:54:49 PM PDT by blam
General Mark Milley, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said before the House Armed Services Committee on Tuesday where he and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin were testifying on the defense budget, that he believes the Russia-Ukraine conflict will continue for years.
He described what the Pentagon sees as what’s to be a “very protracted conflict” to come that’s “at least measured in years.” As we reported earlier, Gen. Milley further called Russia’s military operation the “greatest threat to peace and security of Europe, perhaps the world in my 40 years of service and in uniform.”
It’s widely perceived that the thinking in Moscow was that its “special operation” in Ukraine might take a mere weeks or months – based on Russia’s overwhelming firepower, aircraft, and technology at its disposal – but that Ukrainian resistance was fiercer and more significant than expected, likely causing Russia to now limit the scope of operations to taking Ukraine’s eastern and southern regions.
Gen. Milley explained to Congressional leaders: “But I do think this is a very protracted conflict, and I think it’s at least measured in years. I don’t know about decade, but at least years, for sure.”
“This is a very extended conflict that Russia has initiated, and I think that NATO, the United States, Ukraine and all of the allies and partners that are supporting Ukraine are going to be involved in this for quite some time,” he added.
He further characterized the conflict as follows: “The Russian invasion of Ukraine is threatening to undermine not only European peace and stability but global peace and stability that my parents and a generation of Americans fought so hard to defend,” Milley testified.
If you don’t want Russia to fight Ukraine over there, don’t use Ukraine to fight Russia from here.pic.twitter.com/6B4QVFSZvV
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) February 26, 2022
But the dangerous reality is that the longer this conflict endures, the greater the likelihood of it cascading into a direct Russia-NATO clash, which both sides have admitted would be recipe for World War 3, involving nuclear-armed powers.
This also (as the prior archived above clip demonstrates) as the conflict is being increasingly acknowledged as a ‘proxy war’ between the US/NATO alliance and Moscow. Milley in his testimony nodded to this in his Tuesday words: “We are now facing two global powers: China and Russia, each with significant military capabilities both who intend to fundamentally change the rules-based current global order,” he said, and added: “We are entering a world that is becoming more unstable. The potential for significant international conflict between great powers is increasing, not decreasing.”
Things will be very unpleasant in Europe for a while due to serious energy shortages.
They must go to nuclear if they're to have any energy independence.
The goal was always a low-level, protracted war. Hillary said so herself.
The Neocons got their new Afghanistan.
If the war goes away all Biden has to blame inflation & shortages on is himself.
Our new woke transgendered military is ready to take on the challenges of climate change.......
My faith in the Pentagon is right up there with the CDC, FDA, FBI and Brandon himself.
Milley is front and center part of the axis of evil. Hopefully he will have a close encounter with a transsexual predator drone. /spit
Putin will declare a unilateral ground ceasefire in a month or two backed by a threat of more ballistic missile attacks and there will be another frozen conflict. Ukraine won’t agree to his terms and he won’t retreat from stolen Ukrainian land. That’s a stalemate.
When Milley started talking about this lasting years you could tell he was getting a little excited. The thought of the MIC spending billions just makes him so….happy.
Our Afghanistan or the Soviets’? Or both?
AND, as I see it, the longer this goes on, the more people, equipment, and money Russia loses. Which should (in theory) weaken them substantially. Not to mention the more OLD equipment is given to the Ukes, the more NEW SHINY equipment the MIC can sell NATO countries, and Uke neighbors.
Yep. Exactly. We knew they had to come up with something.
Neocons love it.They think US taxpayers have an endless supply of money.I’d rather withdraw from NATO.Z-ski and the big guy are getting their cut.
The hostilities in Eastern Ukraine have been going on for over 8 years. That said, active Russian troop involvement will not last very long. Inflation coupled with energy, food, and fertilizer shortages will put great pressure on European political leaders to end the conflict. After a little more than a month after the war began, there are already public outcries about the prices of gas and food. It will only get worse.
“Ukraine won’t agree to his terms and he won’t retreat from stolen Ukrainian land. That’s a stalemate.”
A unilateral cease fire is hard when the other guy is still shooting at you. The Ukrainian army is not going away just because Putin wants them to.
Milley Vanilly is just a punk in uniform. He’s a disgrace.
Putin better keep an eye on those Ukrainian farmers or he’ll lose his nukes, too.
And THAT’S how a forever war starts.
Gotta keep the money-go-round going!
Contractors to Politicians, Politicians send $$$ to contractors via budgets, Generals call for more ammo, contractors hire Generals on theur boards.... And all sides family’s get paid the most.
Seeing it in realtime.
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