News - Middle East: Russia has likened the humiliation that the United States was facing presently in Ukraine to America's defeat in the Vietnam War.

Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Sunday that the US government was engaged in a hybrid war against the Russians and its deeper immersion into the conflict will turn into a humiliating fiasco for it on a par with the humiliating defeats Washington saw in the Vietnam or Afghanistan conflicts.
Zakharova said, "Washington's deeper and deeper immersion in the hybrid war against Russia will turn into a loud and humiliating fiasco for United States such as Vietnam and Afghanistan."
She said it is clear that the United States wants Kiev to mobilize its forces "to fight to the last Ukrainian," adding that ordinary Ukrainians were being "forcibly driven to slaughter as "cannon fodder" but that the
The United States was now no longer betting on a Ukrainian victory against Russia. Washington, she said, was hoping Ukraine could hold on until the US presidential election in November.
She noted that the US military-industrial complex running the arms factories were the true beneficiaries of the war.
Meanwhile, despite the suggestions of its allies, the United States has repeatedly ruled out sending its own troops or forces from European countries other than Ukraine to fight against the Russians.
Last week, US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director William Burns admitted that without US military support Ukraine had no chance and it would lose all its forces fighting Russians on the battlefield. The CIA chief, however, claimed with Washington's continued military support Kiev could hold on this year.