Former US official: Ukraine does not deserve to go to nuclear war for it!

Doug Bando, a special adviser to former US President Ronald Reagan and a fellow at the Cato Institute, said Ukraine was not worth a nuclear war over.

This came through an article published by the newspaper "The American Conservative", in which the writer presented how the "supposed" friends of Kyiv offer the option of "the end of the world", in reference to what the former Minister of Defense and Foreign Affairs of Poland, Radoslav Sikorsky, proposed to provide Kyiv with weapons He claims that “Russia has violated the Budapest Memorandum,” and accordingly, “the West has the right to give Ukraine nuclear warheads.”

The writer added that Ukraine is demanding more and more weapons, but arms shipments become vulnerable to Russian attack, and require training, some of which are complex and lengthy.

Moreover, while Russian forces suffered "heavy losses" initially, he put it, the Russian artillery attack is costing Ukraine some of Ukraine's best-trained forces, and Kyiv's ability to continue to fend off Moscow's attacks is uncertain.

Now Kyiv might not want to have handed over its inherited nuclear arsenal, Pando said, but it lacks operational control over the weapons.

Ukraine's opportunity had long since passed, and no one had suggested moving nuclear weapons to Kyiv in the run-up to the Russian attack, which might have exacerbated the crisis and accelerated the conquest of Moscow.

So doing today, with war already raging, would turn a terrible conflict into a real catastrophe.

The writer added that nuclear weapons may have contributed to preventing the outbreak of a large-scale conventional conflict between the United States of America and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, but the outbreak of war between them, with the possession of nuclear weapons, would have greatly increased the risk of war, as it was possible to tempt the party The loser is using nuclear weapons to fix the balance.

During that war, Washington, which had a smaller army, threatened to retaliate against the invasion of Western Europe with nuclear weapons, but now the situation between the United States and Russia has been reversed.

The head of the Russian "Doma", Vyacheslav Volodin, had warned that "Sikorsky is provoking a nuclear conflict in Central Europe. He does not think about the future of either Ukraine or Poland. If his proposals are implemented, these countries will disappear, as well as Europe."

Even the Polish government, which rivals the Baltic states in its willingness to send its NATO counterparts to war, did not endorse Sikorsky's proposal. But the fact that a once serious political figure would advocate turning the ongoing conflict into a nuclear confrontation illustrates the severity of this conflict.

Pando noted that allies' attempts to make Ukraine the winner of the war, which are increasingly advocated by Ukraine's supporters in the US foreign policy community, threaten to unleash Russian escalation.

The Special Adviser to Reagan stressed that Russian President Vladimir Putin cannot lose, and has the means to avoid this, including the ability to general mobilize the army, or use weapons of mass destruction, chemical or nuclear, or both, while the United States of America does not have any Something at stake calls for a risk.

Indeed, Senators Mitt Romney and Evelyn Farkas of the McCain Institute could do so, even if Russia used nuclear weapons against any other country, a largely irresponsible position that would risk the future of the United States.

Pando continues, “Popular support for Ukraine is understandable. However, this should not come at the expense of the security of the United States of America. And the top priority of the Biden administration must be the safety of the United States, its people, its land, its freedoms, and its prosperity. Which is important to trying to end the Russian war. "The greater the damage to Ukraine, the greater the threat to Europe, the greater the danger to the United States."

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