Former CIA chief on US military support: "We gave Ukraine weapons, but never enough to win"

According to Ralph Goff, the goal was not for Ukraine to be able to defeat the Russians.

Ralph Goff, former head of CIA operations in Europe, accuses the Biden administration of providing Ukraine with only limited military support, for fear of provoking Putin and triggering a nuclear conflict.

Ralph Goff, a former CIA chief, claims that the Biden administration did not provide Ukraine with the weapons it needed to drive out Russia, out of fear of nuclear war. The weapons were given only to resist, not to win the war with Russia.

He told about this in an interview with The Times.According to Goff, the war in Ukraine, which began in February 2022, could have been stopped much earlier. To do this, he said, it was necessary to provide Ukraine with sufficient weapons from the very beginning. If we then provided the Ukrainians with adequate weapons, they might be able to expel the Russians from the country. That didn't happen. This created the preconditions for a longer, prot…

The Americans used a deliberate strategy towards Ukraine and allowed the Ukrainian army to bleed out - this is the opinion expressed by the former head of the CIA Ralph Goff. As he said, the Russian invasion could have been stopped at the beginning of the invasion if Ukraine had received specific weapons. According to Goff, the previous president Joe Biden did not make such a decision because he was afraid of the behavior of Vladimir Putin.