The war between Russia and Ukraine has now dragged on for more than two years after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the “special military operation” in Ukraine in February 2022. Although Moscow aimed for a quick victory over its neighbor, a A country with a much smaller military, its vigorous defense effort, bolstered by Western aid, has prevented it from making substantial gains.
However, Erik Prince, founder and former CEO of the private military company Blackwater, warned Sunday that kyiv should give up any hope of recovering its territories annexed by Moscow if it wants to end the conflict, the media reported. .
“This war does not have a good outcome,” Prince said during an appearance on the show Sunday Morning Futures from Fox News. “It is necessary to de-escalate and end it. There is no chance for Ukraine to regain its territories: Donetsk, Luhansk, the eastern areas, and certainly not Crimea,” he added.
He further added: “It’s been a futile task for the last year and a half, and all we’re doing is eliminating the next generations of Ukrainian and Russian men. In fact, imagine if there was this kind of border standoff with Mexico and there was weapons provided by Russia being fired inside the United States. There is no way we will tolerate it.”
Prince said he hopes “the president [electo] Trump can get to work, literally from day one” and that the war “must be set up by adults.”
President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on a promise that he could end the war “within 24 hours” if he returned to office and began calling Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky within days of his election victory in the US presidential elections held on November 5th. Trump, however, has not explained how he would quickly end the conflict.
