U.S. wants Russian military ‘weakened’ from Ukraine invasion, Austin says
The United States hopes the war in Ukraine will result in a “weakened” Russia that no longer has the capacity to invade its neighbors, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Monday
“We want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can’t do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine,” Austin said.
the United States hopes Russia will be “weakened” by the war. “It has already lost a lot of military capability and a lot of its troops, quite frankly, and we want to see them not have the capability to very quickly reproduce that capability,” Austin said.
Austin said the United States hopes “to see the international community more united, especially NATO.” He cited the sanctions imposed on Russia by the United States and its allies as an example of how the war in Ukraine has made the security alliance more unified.
how isn't this a proxy war that the US is using to destabilize Russia so they can continue expanding NATO? Russia poses no real threat outside of being provoked to invade by the west & NATO? The US's police budget is larger than the entire military budget of Russia lol.