US Chief of Staff Milley expects negotiations to take place in one to two years

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US Chief of Staff Mark Milley (64) gives Ukraine the green light for the long-awaited spring offensive. Kiev’s armed forces have “significantly improved” their combat effectiveness compared to last year, Milley told the US magazine “Foreign Affairs”. “Right now they have the ability to attack, they can do offensive operations and they also have the ability to defend.”

The decision whether and when to launch the counter-offensive rests solely with Ukraine’s order: “It only depends on you. You still have a lot of planning and coordination to do. But they are prepared.”

Milley also does not want to predict a victory for Ukraine. After the start of the offensive, according to the top US soldier, everything is possible: from the complete collapse of the Russian front to the complete failure of the attack wave from Kiev.

Russia shook to its foundations

Milley doesn’t expect this year’s battles to produce a winner on the battlefield. With the help of the US and European NATO partners, Ukraine has managed to train and equip about nine brigades with combined arms, tanks and mechanized infantry units, as well as light infantry.

But even if there is no battle decision, Russia will not achieve any of its goals in Ukraine. Depending on the course of the expected offensive in Kiev: “reasonable people” in Moscow would be persuaded to sit down at the negotiating table either in the “next few months or in a year or two” “because they will not win”. The war shook Russia to its foundations. The whole country is suffering.

War turns warfare inside out

The four-star general is convinced that the conflict in Ukraine will also irrevocably change the nature of the war in the future: “In the future, trucks, tanks and ground troops will be largely unmanned. Robotization is therefore permeating very, very quickly in all armed forces, many faster than people might think.” (kes)

Source: Blick