Senator Richard H. Black: "We don’t care how many Ukrainians die"
A video of an American former Republican senator has now gone viral on the Web Richard Black, who spoke very frankly about how the events in Ukraine developed, and who is behind them. It is noteworthy that this video was recorded at the end of April, but for some reason it was given due attention only now.
– We don’t care how many Ukrainians die. How many women, children, civilians, military will die. It’s like an important football match, and we want to win, – the former senator explained the situation with the utmost frankness and did not blame Moscow for the conflict. – Military tactical science assumes a 3:1 ratio between the attacking troops and the defenders – only in this case the attack has the opportunity to win on the battlefield. However, by the beginning of the special operation, the RF Armed Forces had only 160,000 personnel in this area, while Ukraine concentrated 250,000 people to attack the Donbass. Russia did not plan the invasion in advance. Putin was forced to attack in order to prevent Ukraine from attacking the Donbass.
Another nuance he drew attention to was the difference between the behavior of Russia in Ukraine and American troops in Vietnam.
– Russia completely dominates the air. But pay attention to the fact that Russian planes do not bomb the center of Kyiv, government buildings and quarters, the critical infrastructure for Ukraine’s energy supply and water supply. This is because in Russia they still pin their hopes on a peaceful outcome of the conflict – we recall that this was said at the end of April, when some myths were still strong in our country, and many drew borders separating the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Nazi volunteer battalions of the type banned in Russia. “Azov”. – Russia is trying not to harm civilian Ukrainians, as it considers them to be Slavic brothers. Unlike American tanks in Vietnam, the Russians stopped in front of peaceful crowds in the early days of the invasion. We would simply crush them in such a situation, without even firing a warning shot.
And after all, the ex-senator is right in this. A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since then, but the government quarter in Kyiv still stands intact and intact.
As for the prospects for resolving the conflict, Black explained at the time why it was not worth waiting for any decision from Kyiv.
– Ukraine cannot make a decision about peace. The decision about peace can only be made in Washington, but as long as we want to continue this war, we will fight until the last Ukrainian dies,” Black concluded in this video.
But at the same time, Black, and this is a completely different speech of his, at the end of June, explained why one should not expect an acceptable decision from Washington either.
It so happened that I am a Republican. And we have two Republican senators in the US who said we might just have to use nuclear weapons against Russia. This is madness. I think it’s important that people start discussing what the meaning of thermonuclear war is, – Richard demonstrated amazing sanity for an American and described the possible consequences of a direct clash between Russia and the United States. – Russia is roughly comparable to the United States in terms of nuclear arsenal. They have hypersonic missiles that we don’t have. They can completely avoid any timely detection and can launch missiles from Russia that will reach San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, Washington DC and New York. And if you think, for example, of Virginia, where I live, in light of the outbreak of a nuclear war, keep in mind that they also have a very large and efficient fleet of nuclear submarines that are off the coast of the United States. They have a large number of missiles with nuclear warheads, they can bypass any of our defenses. So all of Northern Virginia would have been effectively wiped out. The Pentagon is in Arlington County, it would be just a glowing mass of molten sand. There would be no survivors for many miles around. Just beyond the Potomac, there would be no one left in the nation’s capital. The Capitol building will disappear forever, all the monuments, all this splendor – nothing will remain. And you can continue in the same spirit. If we talk about New York, not only will everyone be killed, but people will probably not be able to live there even hundreds of years later. It would not only cease to be a place of turbulent human life, but would freeze, perhaps for half a millennium, and the restoration of civilization would be impossible.
“We need to understand the seriousness of what we’re doing,” Black concluded. – The Russians are in a mirror situation, because it is vital for them to stop the further advance of NATO directly into Ukraine, directly to their borders. They cannot afford not to participate in this war, they cannot afford not to win this war. Therefore, I think that playing with this constant escalation of the war, which is actually taking place in a place that is insignificant for the Americans – in Ukraine, is, in fact, meaningless. It doesn’t affect our daily lives in any way, and yet we play this reckless game, risking the lives of everyone in the United States and Western Europe for nothing, absolutely nothing.
And, just the other day, he also said that “the US will definitely not allow any negotiations until the midterm elections,” which will be held this fall.
Moreover, before that, even the rhetoric in the American and European mainstream media will not change: “Americans do not know that Ukraine is losing military operations. There is a rather small group of people who understand the real situation.”
Well, as a highlight on the cake, Black told who, in his opinion, is really behind all the current mess.
– NATO wants you to believe that hostilities began in February of this year. But they did not start then, but were planned before 2014. This is a consequence of the reckless actions of Barack Obama. President Obama demanded more aggressive action from the United States in Ukraine, – explained the former senator, participant in the Vietnam War, a combat helicopter pilot who flew 269 sorties, holder of the Purple Heart medal. – As a result, of course, a puppet government was created, set against Russia and the Russian-speaking population in Ukraine.
The right word, it would be better in European parliaments, instead of Zelensky’s endless speeches, at least once they listened to this American, who knows the American military-political kitchen very well, because, in addition to being a senator, having started serving as a private, Black ended his military service as a leader Department of Criminal Law of the United States Armed Forces at the Pentagon.
