{"id":1319140,"date":"2022-02-20T10:57:30","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T15:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1319140"},"modified":"2022-02-20T16:07:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T21:07:40","slug":"amb-to-ukraine-ukrainians-will-fight-and-human-cost-of-this-could-be-astronomical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amb-to-ukraine-ukrainians-will-fight-and-human-cost-of-this-could-be-astronomical\/","title":{"rendered":"Amb To Ukraine: \u2018Ukrainians Will Fight,\u2019 And \u2018Human Cost Of This Could Be Astronomical\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famb-to-ukraine-ukrainians-will-fight-and-human-cost-of-this-could-be-astronomical%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1319140&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/02\/0AA12217-6294-4E72-9437-88D8754BB777-scaled.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Sunday, acting U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Kristina Kvien, and former NATO Ambassador Doug Lute appeared on ABC\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/week-transcript-20-22-secretary-lloyd-austin\/story?id=83013292\">This Week<\/a>\u201d with host Martha Raddatz, which filmed on location in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>During their discussions about a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine, Raddatz first asked Kvien if an invasion is \u201ca certainty,\u201d and how it would impact the world.<\/p>\n<p>After noting that she believes the invasion is \u201clikely\u201d to take place, she said that it \u201cdoesn\u2019t mean President Putin can\u2019t change his mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt means, not only is Ukraine at threat, but really all of the global order, and certainly eastern Europe is at threat, because if President Putin is bold enough and brazen enough and foolish enough to do this, who knows what else he\u2019ll be willing to do,\u201d Kvien said.<\/p>\n<p>Raddatz then asked Lute about how much intelligence can be trusted, bringing up the Iraq war. Lute responded that intelligence can be wrong, and that trying to \u201cassess intentions\u201d is difficult \u2014 though some of what is being measured are \u201cphotographs of troops amassed along the border and so forth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lute added that Putin \u201chas enjoyed the last several weeks of attention,\u201d but that he might not want to incur the damage that sanctions would pose, as well as face the prospect of controlling tens of millions of occupied Ukrainians.<\/p>\n<p>Turning again to Kvien, Raddatz asked about the people of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Kvien stressed that Ukrainians are already experiencing casualties in Donbas, and that they have \u201ca tough constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for what would happen if Russia launches a full-scale invasion, Kvien said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u2026Ukrainians will fight. Ukrainians are extremely patriotic. They love their country, and they\u2019re not afraid to fight. We\u2019ve seen that in the past. If the Russians come in, the Ukrainians will fight, and there could be very heavy casualties on both sides. The human cost of this could be astronomical and horrendous. And all of that will be on the shoulders of Vladimir Putin.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cUkrainians will fight. Ukrainians are extremely patriotic, they love their country and they\u2019re not afraid to fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Kristina Kvien tells <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarthaRaddatz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MarthaRaddatz<\/a> that the \u201chuman cost\u201d of Russian invasion could be \u201castronomical.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EX0sKs4nOx\">https:\/\/t.co\/EX0sKs4nOx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CePNq9zK8p\">pic.twitter.com\/CePNq9zK8p<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThisWeekABC\/status\/1495422916279869449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>TRANSCRIPT:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>RADDATZ: If this happens, and, first of all, I want to know whether you think it\u2019s practically a certainty \u2026 How does that conflict spread beyond here? Can it spread beyond here? Will we be in a new Cold War?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>KVIEN: Right. Well, first of all, I would say that I agree with President Biden, that it is likely to happen, that President Putin has made a decision. That doesn\u2019t mean it can\u2019t be stopped. It doesn\u2019t mean President Putin can\u2019t change his mind. But I do think that right now, he\u2019s moving towards a large-scale invasion.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So then the question is, what does that mean? It means, not only is Ukraine at threat, but really all of the global order, and certainly eastern Europe is at threat, because if President Putin is bold enough and brazen enough and foolish enough to do this, who knows what else he\u2019ll be willing to do.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>RADDATZ: And Doug, I know you said you don\u2019t think it\u2019s necessarily a certainty. But when you hear them say it\u2019s a certainty and you think of the intelligence, and they\u2019ve put out all of this intelligence, you can\u2019t help thinking of Iraq, which you have great experience in there, 9\/11, and Afghanistan, where intelligence clearly failed. So, could they be wrong?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>LUTE: Well, sure. The intelligence may be wrong. Of course, what the analysts are looking at, Martha, are both the capabilities, things that are easy to measure, like photographs of troops amassed along the border and so forth, but they\u2019re also trying to assess President Putin\u2019s intentions. And this gets very foggy. This gets \u2014 he holds his cards very close to the vest. It\u2019s much harder to assess intentions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I think that he has enjoyed the last several weeks of attention. He has already destabilized Ukraine by way of its \u2014 the impact he\u2019s had on the Ukrainian economy. And it\u2019s not clear to me that he wants to incur all the consequences that Kristina laid out, plus this most severe consequence, which is trying to control the 40 million people in Ukraine. So, I\u2019m not sure.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>RADDATZ: And I want to talk about the people of Ukraine. Obviously, it\u2019s a day where people are out shopping. It almost seems like they\u2019re not on the brink of war. But really talk about the cost here. What would happen to this nation?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>KVIEN: Right. First of all, you know, Ukrainians have been living with war now for eight years. Russia is already in Crimea and the Donbas and there is a hot war in Donbas where 14,000 Ukrainians have been killed. So, the Ukrainians do have, you know, a tough Constitution. They\u2019re used to this. And that\u2019s why you see, they\u2019re not panicking. They\u2019re not, you know, hiding in their houses. They\u2019re going out and enjoying life while they can.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But Ukrainians will fight. Ukrainians are extremely patriotic. They love their country, and they\u2019re not afraid to fight. We\u2019ve seen that in the past. If the Russians come in, the Ukrainians will fight. And there could be very heavy casualties on both sides. The human cost of this could be astronomical and horrendous. And all of that will be on the shoulders of Vladimir Putin.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire\u2019s first original film, Shut In, has made its cinematic debut, being met with rave reviews. The Daily Wire is building an alternative to the leftist entertainment industry, one gripping movie at a time. Join us in this mission and stream Shut In today by becoming a Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, acting U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Kristina Kvien, and former NATO Ambassador Doug Lute appeared on ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week\u201d with host Martha Raddatz, which filmed on location in Ukraine.During &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1319140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}