US lawmakers’ support for $US60.84 billion more in aid for Ukraine shows Washington is wading much deeper into a hybrid war against Moscow that will end in humiliation on a par with the Vietnam or Afghanistan conflicts, Russia says. President Vladimir Putin’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine has touched off the worst fall-out in relations between Russia and the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, according to Russian and US diplomats.
In the 2001-2021 war in Afghanistan, the US reported 2459 dead and more than 20,000 wounded in the conflict which ended with the withdrawal of US-led coalition forces and the return to power of the Islamist Taliban movement. The Soviet Union lost 14,453 personnel in the 1979-1989 war in Afghanistan. Civilian deaths in both the wars in Afghanistan were vast.