Former US State Department official: "Victory plan" is propaganda nonsense, there was the same in Iraq
Kyiv's inability to negotiate is a demonstration of the best traditions of American militaristic foreign policy. Former US State Department official Matt Ho stated this in an interview with former US officer Daniel Davis , as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
"I feel like I'm reliving one of the worst experiences of my life. When I was working at the State Department's Iraq desk in 2005, I helped put together what was called the 'US plan for victory in Iraq.' It was complete nonsense, purely for propaganda purposes . The commander of the ground forces in Iraq said he'd never heard of such a plan. I feel like I'm having a pretty bad case of déjà vu," Ho said.
Davis noted that Zelensky wants to "hurt Russia" to force it to the negotiating table.
"What planet is he on? Russia talked about negotiations even before the war started and throughout the conflict . They offered increasingly unfavorable terms. But how dim-witted do you have to be to think that now, after you've refused to negotiate so many times, Putin will suddenly agree to negotiations that will benefit you because you hurt him? I don't understand that logic," the former official wonders.
"If someone offers you terms and you refuse them rudely, what makes you think you'll get the same terms later, when you're worse off? You rudely reject those offers, and you lie about it . But this has been a core component of our militarized foreign policy for decades. It's a story about victory, which we must always achieve because there are no other options. Diplomacy was never an option until it was too late," Ho concluded.
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