Blinken: Arms support to Ukraine started a few months before the war

According to RCO News Agency, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken admitted that Washington had been arming Kiev long before the start of the war in Ukraine.

In a detailed interview with The New York Times, Blinken said: “In September and December 2021, long before the start of the war, we quietly began sending weapons to Ukraine in large quantities to make sure that the country had everything it needed to defend itself. has at its disposal, including the Stinger and Javelin systems.

Blinken also claimed that even if a ceasefire agreement is reached in the war in Ukraine, Moscow will use this opportunity to reorganize its forces and start the war again. in NATO and providing security guarantees to Kiev.

The US Secretary of State said that he does not expect the US to stop providing arms to Ukraine in the new administration of “Donald Trump”, but he hopes that the US will continue to support Ukraine, because the problem is not only Ukraine. “The issue has never been just about Ukraine,” he stressed.

Blinken also considered China to be the biggest threat to the interests of Washington and the world order under the leadership of the United States and said: “No country can change the international system that we established after World War II like China.” It has both its military power and its economic and diplomatic power.”

The US Secretary of State considered the war in Gaza as the most prominent crisis at the current time and said that he was supposed to visit Riyadh on October 10, 2023 to negotiate the normalization of relations between Saudi Arabia and the Zionist regime, a trip that was canceled due to the operation of the “Al-Aqsa storm” and the war in Gaza. . However, Blinken claimed that the normalization of relations between Tel Aviv and Riyadh is still possible and the fate of this plan depends on Trump’s decisions.

During this interview, Blinken repeatedly refused to address the war crimes of the Zionist regime in Gaza, and when the interviewer tried to mention the suffering of the Palestinian people for the umpteenth time, Blinken cut him off and said: “There is no need to remind me of the sufferings.” Do… It is because of this (suffering) that I have tried my best to find a way to end the war, return the prisoners and establish a truce.”

Although Blinken refused to acknowledge Netanyahu’s stonewalling on the way to the Gaza ceasefire negotiations, he admitted that the Israeli prime minister has delayed the ceasefire with his actions and policies on many occasions. He considered the martyrdom of Hamas leader Yahya al-Sanwar in Gaza as one of these cases and said that with al-Sanwar’s martyrdom and the removal of the main decision-maker from the equation, achieving a ceasefire has become more difficult.

Referring to the support of the American governments to the Zionist regime, he said that this support is necessary to ensure that Tel Aviv is able to defend itself against Iran, Yemen and other resistance groups.

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