Ukraine sustaining huge losses in 'US proxy war' against Russia: RFK Jr.
Lots of Ukrainians are dying for the sake of a US "proxy war" against Russia, the latest entrant to the American 2024 presidential race, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has emphasized shortly after announcing his bid to challenge fellow Democratic Party member and incumbent President Joe Biden.
“We’re killing a lot of Ukrainians as pawns in a proxy war between two great powers,” Kennedy stated during an interview late Thursday with Fox News’s Tucker Carlson Tonight.
“Nobody talks about this. There are 14,000 Ukrainian civilians that died, but 300,000 troops. Russians are killing Ukrainians at a 7:1 to 8:1 ratio," he added, insisting, "They cannot sustain this. What we’re being told about this war is just not true.”
Although Kennedy did not cite a source for the casualty figures he offered, he did note, however, that his own son had fought in the Ukraine conflict as a machine gunner in the special forces, and took part in the Ukrainian offensive in Kharkov last year.
During his five-minute appearance on Carlson’s show, the presidential hopeful further reiterated his earlier remarks that Washington is fueling inflation by printing money so it could send $130 billion to Ukraine, while “we have 57 percent of American citizens [who] could not put their hands on $1,000 if they had an emergency.”
Kennedy went on to commend what her referred to as the valor and courage of the Ukrainians but questioned whether the massive US involvement in the Ukraine conflict were for the right reasons, citing several foreign policy scholars who insist the West has created a geopolitical nightmare by driving Russia closer to China.
RFK Jr. is the nephew of the 35th US president John F. Kennedy and the son of Robert Kennedy, JFK’s attorney general who went on to become a senator. Both brothers were assassinated – JFK in 1963, and RFK in 1968 during the presidential primaries.
Following a long career as an corporate attorney, environmentalist, and health advocate, RFK Jr. announced his presidential bid on Wednesday in a three-hour speech in Boston.
During one segment of his remarks, in which he censured the trillions of dollars Washington had spent on foreign wars, someone tried to disrupt the speech by pulling a fire alarm at the venue.
RFK, Jr. also reconfirmed earlier admissions by top US officials that the notorious Daesh terrorist group was created by Washington, which he blamed for tens of thousands of casualties inflicted by the Takfiri terrorist in Iraq, Syria and elsewhere.
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