Former US Intel officer calls Ukraine's counteroffensive 'dead end, bizarre fantasy'

Former United States Marine Corps intelligence officer, and an ex-United Nations [UN] Special Commission weapons inspector, Scott Ritter, on Monday, labelled Ukaine's much-anticipated counteroffensive as a "bizarre fantasy world of neocons in West." In an interview with Russia's state-affiliated agency Sputnik, Ritter underscored that it is "practically impossible" for Ukraine to envisage defeating Russia which is bolstered with modernized military.

Ritter was reacting to US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Victoria Nuland's remarks on Carnegie Endowment's Unpacking Ukrainian Battlefield With Russian Military speech. latter was delivering remarks on 15th Annual Kyiv Security Forum for Our and Your Freedom/Fighting for NATO held on May 25-26.

'American goal of destroying Russia'

Ritter questioned Nuland's posture about  ongoing Russia Ukraine hostilities, saying that it isn't aimed at achieving "Ukrainian goal and objective," but " ultimate American goal of destroying Russia." If  United States cared about future of Ukraine, why did it not start early? questioned Ritter during interview. "y [US] would have started avoidance of this conflict to begin with because re is no one, no sane person, no rational person who would have thought that Ukraine would prevail in a struggle or an armed struggle against Russia. It is physically impossible for that to happen," ex-US intelligence officer said. Despite rampant pumping of weapons by Western military Alliance NATO, US and E European states, Ukrainian Armed Forces will not be able to achieve goal of strategic defeat on Moscow, ex-officer iterated. 

"You would not commit best forces you have into a battle that isn't your primary focus of effort," Ritter told outlet. "Well, briges that Ukraine is preparing to throw into battle are 9 to 12 briges that have been created. se briges have been being formed since October and November of last year," he furr revealed. "re's no or briges and re's nothing being prepared to replace m. It's not as though, you know when se 12 briges get destroyed and y're getting destroyed as we speak, it's not like we got anor 12 out re rey to go," ex-US Marine Corps analysts during Soviet Union's Afghanistan invasion, stressed.