Russia said on Sunday that U.S. lawmakers' approval of a further $60.84 billion in aid to Ukraine showed Washington was moving deeper right into a hybrid war with Russia that might end in a humiliation on par with Vietnam or Afghanistan would end.
President Vladimir Putin's all-out invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has triggered the worst crisis in relations between Russia and the West because the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, based on Russian and U.S. diplomats.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a $95 billion security aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan on Saturday with broad bipartisan support, over bitter objections from some Republicans.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said it was clear that the United States wanted Ukraine to fight “to the last Ukrainian,” including with attacks on Russian territory and civilians.
“Washington’s ever-deeper immersion in the hybrid war against Russia will become for the United States a fiasco as loud and humiliating as Vietnam and Afghanistan,” Zakharova said.
She said that bizarre Ukrainians were being “forced into slaughter as 'cannon fodder'” but that the United States was now not betting on a Ukrainian victory against Russia.
Western and Ukrainian leaders have portrayed the war in Ukraine as an imperial-style land grab, showing that post-Soviet Russia represents one among the 2 biggest nation-state threats to global stability, together with China.
But Putin portrays the war as a part of a much larger struggle with the United States, which he says ignored Moscow's interests after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 after which plotted to divide Russia and seize its natural resources.
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