Washington: Unknown to the world, at least 200 British and American soldiers have died and many injured in Ukraine while fighting the advancing Russian forces, according to two well-known American security analysts.
They lend credence to Russian claims blacked out as ‘propaganda’ by the Western media, representing a narrative that is emerging in the United States.
It counters the US/NATO projections that show Ukraine holding out and Russia bogged down in the conflict. It foresees Russian leader Putin securing Ukraine’s partition, rendering it largely agricultural and landlocked and posing no threat to Russia anytime soon. That would effect a divorce with the West. Larry C. Johnson, a veteran of the US’ CIA and the State Department’s Office of Counter-Terrorism, noted: The Ukrainian Army has (already) been defeated. What’s Left Is Mop-Up.
In an interview by Mike Whitney, posted on UNZ.com (March 21, 2022), Johnson says Russia can survive the sanctions imposed by the US and its allies and could inflict economic misery on them. It is a ‘miscalculation’ to think that economic sanctions on Russia would bring them to their knees. The opposite is true,l Johnson avers. Russia is self-sufficient and is not dependent on imports. However, its exports are critical to the economic well-being of the West. If they withhold wheat, potash, gas, oil, palladium, finished nickel and other key minerals from the West, the European and U.S. economies will be impacted.
And this attempt to coerce Russia with sanctions has now made it very likely that the U.S. dollar’s role as the international reserve currency will show up in the dustbin of history,” Johnson says.
He further viewed that a thoroughly weakened Ukraine could be “dominated by fascists from Galicia which would then become a major problem for the European Union. Johnson agrees with fellow American, Colonel Douglas MacGregor, who opines that “the war is really over for the Ukrainians. They have been ground into bits, there is no question about that despite what we hear from our mainstream media. Are we going to stop using Ukraine as a battering ram against Moscow, which is effectively what we’ve done, MacGregor asked.
Following Putin’s special military operations beginning February 24, Johnson claims: Within the first 24 hours of the Russian military operation in Ukraine, all Ukrainian Ground Radar Intercept capabilities were wiped out. Without those radars, the Ukrainian Air Force lost its ability to do air-to-air intercepts. “In the intervening three weeks, Russia has established a de facto No Fly Zone over Ukraine. While still vulnerable to shoulder-fired Surface to Air Missiles supplied by the U.S. and NATO to the Ukrainians, there is no evidence that Russia has had to curtail Combat Air Operations.