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"If Ukraine Loses, NATO Will Fight Russia." Pentagon Chief on Ukraine's Possible Defeat
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said that if Ukraine is defeated, NATO troops will fight Russia. He said this at a hearing in the House Armed Services Committee on his hospitalization in early January.
If Ukraine loses, Putin will not stop, he will continue to attack and seize sovereign territory of his neighbors. And if you are a Baltic country, you are very worried about whether you will be next. And so they know Putin, they know what he is capable of. And frankly, if Ukraine loses, I do believe that NATO will fight Russia.
Lloyd Austin's words were commented on by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova. "Is this a direct threat to Russia or an attempt to come up with an excuse for Zelensky? Both are crazy. But now everyone sees who the aggressor is - Washington," she wrote on the Telegram channel.