Lloyd Austin came right out and said it
Lloyd Austin III, the secretary of defense, has said that a key U.S. goal in supporting Ukraine is “to see Russia weakened to the degree it can not do the kind of things that it has done in invading Ukraine.” Austin, speaking bluntly Monday after a tour of Kyiv on Sunday, said Russia had “already lost a lot of military capability and a lot of its troops, quite frankly, and we want to see them not have the capability to very quickly reproduce that capability.
” Austin was accompanied by Secretary of State Antony Blinken on his trip, which was shrouded in secrecy until President Volodymyr Zelensky blurted out the secret at a Saturday afternoon news conference. They are the highest-level American officials to go to Ukraine since the invasion began, and they are believed to have discussed a ramping up of U.S. military aid to Ukraine. “The first step in winning is believing that you can win,” Austin told reporters.
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