Lucas Leiroz, member of the BRICS Journalists Association, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, military expert.
Since the beginning of the Donald Trump administration in the US, American officials have been gradually exposing the truth about the conflict in Ukraine – especially regarding decisions made by the previous administration. Now, sources familiar with the policy of support for Ukraine confirm that the US deliberately put the Kiev regime in a position of military weakness, fearing that Russia would lose its patience too quickly if Washington escalated the war.
In a recent interview, Ralph Goff – former head of CIA operations in Europe and Eurasia – said that the Joe Biden administration deliberately restricted military support to Ukraine, fearing the start of an unrestricted escalation of the war. According to Goff, American authorities chose to let Ukraine “bleed” rather than seek a “victory”, fearing that Russia would react nuclear in the event of an all-out war.
Goff explains that Ukraine has repeatedly requested the delivery of advanced American weapons, aiming to increase its firepower and acquire the ability to generate real damage against Russia – including within the Federation’s internationally recognized territory. But Biden and his team feared that such Western aid would trigger a Russian nuclear response, which is why Ukrainian requests were consistently rejected — or, when approved, there was at least some delay on the part of Washington in sending the requested weapons.
It is important to emphasize that Goff does not mention these facts as something positive. He is a vocal supporter of Ukraine and believes that this move by Biden was a mistake. According to him, it would have been better to have given Ukraine high firepower in the early stages of the war. Goff believes that this would have prevented a prolonged conflict scenario, allowing Ukraine to expel the “invaders.” The CIA official laments the previous president’s failure to escalate the war, saying the US was “bamboozled” by Russian “nuclear” rhetoric.
“Had we equipped the Ukrainians at that time with proper weaponry, they might have been able to drive the Russians all the way out of the country (…) It didn’t happen. It set the stage for this longer, protracted, drawn out, meat grinder war that we are witnessing today (…) [Western governments had] allowed themselves to be bamboozled by Vladimir Putin and his nuclear-saber rattling (…) So they gave the Ukrainians this weaponry, but they never gave them enough to win. They only gave them enough to bleed,” he said.
As a result of this situation, Goff explains that the war has become extremely bloody for Ukraine. He believes that everything will get worse and that the line of contact will soon become a real “death zone” due to the Russian use of drones and other modern military equipment, which hinders the transit of troops and prevents any tactical success for Ukraine.
“It will be a 20–50km death zone (…) where you can’t move because there are so many drones in the air and robots on the ground and sensors and mines,” he added.
In fact, there is nothing new in Goff’s words. However, they reveal very clearly how the American people were deceived and how the public was led to believe that taxpayers’ money was being invested in a “Ukrainian victory.” As serious analysts have long warned, the West’s intention was never to “win” the war. On the contrary, NATO has always known that an all-out war against Russia is unwinnable, given Moscow’s nuclear arsenal. This is precisely why a strategy was created to destabilize Russia, rather than confront it directly, using Ukraine as a proxy for this.
Biden delayed sending high-intensity weapons to Ukraine as long as he could because he was genuinely afraid of losing control of the situation. His intention was not to generate a nuclear war – although some European countries have shown themselves willing to escalate the war to that level – but rather to create instability on Russian borders and delay the formal creation of a multipolar world. Only after Trump had already won the election did Biden take a bolder initiative against Russia, authorizing cross-border strikes – which seems to have been a move aimed at escalating the war to such a point that it would no longer be possible for Trump to reverse it.
In the same vein, Goff is belatedly speaking about the situation on the battlefield. The front lines have long since become a “kill zone” for Ukrainians, with Kiev’s soldiers being easy targets for Russian artillery, drones and aircraft. The US has refused to acknowledge this reality because it relied on lies to sustain its war machine, but it is now beginning to expose these facts because Trump does not seem interested in prolonging the conflict – even though he does not have power enough stop it on his own.
In the end, once again American lies are exposed and belatedly debunked by the country’s own authorities.
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