US troops deployed to Ukraine to prop up Kiev in its conflict with Russia would end up being \u201cwiped out,\u201d former US Army officer Stanislav Krapivnik told RT on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The US military in its current state is not fit to take on Russia in a conventional war, Krapivnik argued. Even in the Cold War era, the whole of NATO would have only been able to slow down a potential advance of the Soviet bloc rather than launch an all-out ground assault against it, he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIf you listen to rational experts in the West, they\u2019ll tell you, yes, the US Army is in no position right now \u2013 the US Army has never been in a position to take on Russia on the ground. For NATO, as a whole, during the height of the Cold War, the mission was first and foremost to block the Warsaw Pact forces and buy time, no kind of any massive offensive,\u201d Krapivnik explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since then, the warfighting capabilities of the collective West have greatly deteriorated, largely due to the military endeavors the US itself undertaken in the past decades, he suggested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cRight now, it\u2019s much worse. The endless wars that America has been fighting, the endless guerilla wars have totally sapped America\u2019s capability to fight a conventional war. They are trying to up it right now, but it takes a lot of time to rebuild your forces,\u201d Krapivnik stated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The ex-US Army officer also touched upon recent media reports that should US President Joe Biden be reelected, he, or \u201cthe collective Biden, whoever actually makes the decisions\u201d could send American troops to Ukraine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe problem is, that the people in Washington, the Biden regime is absolutely devoid of any sense of reality,\u201d Krapivnik said. While the idea is bound to result in a crushing defeat for the US military, such a deployment cannot not be ruled out entirely, he suggested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis is totally devoid of reality. The US Army is going to get wiped out, if they are going to Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n