David Petraeus: ‘It’s Going To Be a Long, Cold, Dark, Hard Winter for Ukraine’

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PETRAEUS: “And the pressure on the front lines is quite intense, and the Russians have been carrying out systematic attacks, damaging or destroying every single thermal power plant, hydroelectric power plant, and then the transmission and transformer infrastructure that supports the nuclear power plants. So it’s going to be a long, cold, dark, hard winter for Ukraine. And then, if this assistance were to be cut off in some way or limited, I think that would be very, very unwise. As the congressman also explained correctly, Russia won’t stop in Ukraine. They’ll go on to Moldova. Then it’ll be Lithuania. Bigger war, then something with NATO. So we need to do everything we can to enable Ukraine to stop them here and really, in my view, to change the dynamic on the battlefield so that Russia finally realizes, Putin realizes that he can’t achieve additional gains at an acceptable cost.”