The war in Ukraine is at a "very dangerous stage", and without the approval of additional aid from the United States, it will be extremely difficult for the Armed Forces to hold their positions. Not only Kharkiv and Kyiv, but also the borders of NATO may be under threat.

This opinion was expressed by the ex-commander of the United Armed Forces of NATO in Europe, retired general of the US Army Wesley Clark, reports "Voice of America".

"If we pass an aid bill and treat Ukraine in a crisis the same way we treated Israel in 1973, when we actually took weapons from our own forces in Germany and delivered them to Israel, if we treated Ukraine that way manner and delivered the necessary weapons to the necessary places, we could stabilize the situation where we are now," said Clark.

After that, in his opinion,

. It could be done, noted the retired general, who once fought in Vietnam and led NATO forces in Kosovo.

Without help from the US, the Ukrainians are unlikely to be able to hold the front

Clark warned that if this does not happen, the Ukrainians will hardly be able to hold the front on their own.

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You cannot expect them to fight without air superiority," said the ex-commander of NATO forces in Europe.

According to him, the war in Ukraine is now in the fourth stage: when the Armed Forces need to get out of the positional war, but in order to wage a mobile war, they need more weapons. The Russians, on the contrary, after the first failures, are preparing for an offensive.

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Arms from the Allies were never enough for Ukraine to win the war

Clark claims that the US and its allies supplied Ukraine with enough weapons to not lose, but

"If the Ukrainian army is going to wage a mobile war, it does not need 31 (American) tanks and 100 Leopard tanks. It needs 1-2 thousand tanks. It needs not 300 towed artillery units, but self-propelled artillery; not 25 F- 16, and a couple of hundred F-16s," the American general estimated.

He added that these weapons, even if the aid package is approved, will not arrive immediately, so the Ukrainians must hold on to their current positions.

After the defeat of Ukraine, the Russian army will go to NATO's borders in Europe

Clark is convinced that the military command of the US and NATO is aware of the danger that in the event of a fall in the defense of Ukraine, the Russian army will go to the borders of the Alliance in Europe and will not stop there.

"General Cavoli (supreme commander of the combined armed forces of NATO - ed.) understands very well:

," the retired general said.

"We barely managed a 400-mile internal German border during the Cold War. I can't imagine what it would take to mobilize NATO," Clark said.

In his opinion, many mistakes were made back in the 1990s, when Washington believed that they had won the "Cold War" and that the Soviet threat had disappeared. It was a big mistake not to listen to the warnings of politicians and experts from Eastern European countries who said that the imperial ambitions of the Russian Federation would return as soon as Moscow gained strength. That is why the Eastern European countries were in a hurry to join NATO in the hope that the Alliance would be able to protect them.

It will be recalled that NATO admitted that the West was "too optimistic" about the course of the war in Ukraine in 2023. The head of the Alliance's Military Committee, Admiral Rob Bauer, said that the West believed that "if we give the Ukrainians the necessary ammunition and training, they will win."

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