KT McFarland, deputy national security adviser in the first Trump administration, told Newsmax on Friday that the attacks by Ukraine against Russia could “escalate” their ongoing war.
McFarland told “Wake Up America” that Ukraine “scored a major victory” with drone strikes on Russian airfields, which she said were “humiliating [for] the Russian military” and illustrated “how vulnerable Russia is” to attacks.
She said that Ukraine doesn’t “want to settle” because “they think they’re on a roll. The Russians and maybe [President] Vladimir Putin didn’t want to settle a couple weeks ago, because he was preparing for a summer offensive.”
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