U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin testified before the U.S. Congress on February 29: "Frankly, if Ukraine is defeated, I really think NATO will go head-to-head with Russia." ”
Austin also said that the Russian army is constantly encroaching on Ukrainian territory, and Ukraine is at an overall disadvantage, which is very disturbing. This is the first time that a high-level US official has made a public statement on the issue of war against Russia, but whether this represents the will of the entire United States remains to be discussed.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Austin responded strongly to this, and Putin gave a strong response.
On the same day, Putin delivered his annual State of the Union address, in which he issued a strong warning against Austin's remarks: "Russia's strategic nuclear forces are in a state of full readiness!" "Well, those who offend Russia will be punished even if they are far away, even if you are on the other side of the ocean.
For example, the Russian army's "Zircon" hypersonic cruise missile and "Dagger" hypersonic missile have been put into actual combat, and the new intercontinental missile "Sarmat" that can carry a nuclear warhead has also been delivered to the troops, and Russia will soon display the "Sarmat" missile in the combat duty area.
Putin still shows a tough image as always, and he will not give an inch.
For a time, black clouds overwhelmed the city, and wind and rain were coming.
Especially on the current battlefield in Ukraine, the Russian army has achieved an overwhelming advantage, after the fall of Avdeyevka, the gateway to Kyiv has been opened, less than 300 kilometers of plains, a flat river, three hours before the Russian army can come to the city. If the Russian army besieges the city again, NATO is quite pessimistic about whether Kyiv can hold it as it did the first time.
The defeat of the Ukrainian army in Avdeyevka has made the whole world see that this is no longer the Ukrainian army that won the great victory in Kharkov, nor is it the Ukrainian army that beat ** Mut into a meat grinder with Wagner, the elite is lost, the morale is low, and Ukraine is already in the weakest time since the start of the war.
On the other hand, Russia has been on the battlefield step by step, and after capturing Avdeyevka, Kyiv has been under the front of the army, and at the same time has completely regained air supremacy, and the battlefield initiative is under control, and morale is high. Inside Russia, with Prigozhin's death and the loss of power of the Imperial Russian faction, Putin has completed the maximum integration of internal forces. The fist can be clenched.
That's why the Russian army is panicking like an ant on a hot pot, and only then did the US defense minister say ruthlessly.
Seeing the thunder and fire, it seems that a world war is about to break out.
But in Canghaijun's view, the situation is far from collapsing to this point, and the rhetoric on the surface is just putting pressure on each other. Austin's cruel words are not only for Putin, but also for Congress, the situation in Ukraine is dangerous, if you don't want to end up in person, then increase military aid, to put it bluntly, you are putting pressure on the forces that obstruct and aid Ukraine at home. Well, it's you, Comrade Chuan Jianguo. Since the outbreak of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, there have been differences in the United States on whether to focus on aid to Ukraine or aid to Israel, and Comrade Trump is a staunch supporter of aid to Israel. At the beginning, he even threatened that if he became a **, he would be able to end the Russian-Ukrainian war, and the solution would be to cede Ukrainian territory to Russia. Listen, is this speaking in American language?
The commander of NATO will personally end the game, even if he has the heart, he is powerless.
And on the Russian side, there is no need to really swallow the whole of Ukraine, this is not the original intention of the war, after all, what it wanted at the beginning was only the four states of eastern Ukraine, and it could not afford the series of consequences that followed, to put it bluntly, it was not in its own interests. So now we just need to continue to work steadily, act at the opportunity, and continue to accumulate bargaining chips for the negotiations that will inevitably come in the future, and wait for the final chapter of the United States in December this year.
If Comrade Jianguo can really return as a king, hehe!