"An escalation is expected... This is confirmed by the West’s rhetoric. Continental Europe and Britain are vowing to provide Ukraine with endless supplies of weapons."

According to the US president, it was "one of the most flawless military campaigns in the history of our country."

"They know what is happening, but their task is the final demonization of Russia," Maxim Buyakevich told Sputnik.

💬 “It takes time to get those armaments and get the production lines open, get the raw materials and the supplies and the electronics, because of all the supply chain issues that exist,” former senior Pentagon security policy analyst Michael Maloof told Sputnik, commenting on the US move to scale back advanced air defense and battlefield weapon deliveries to Ukraine and ramp up domestic production.

💬 “Certainly, if another conflict were to arise tomorrow, let’s say with Iran, the US would probably have to get up for a full-time, wartime production, because right now those stocks are totally inadequate for a three-front war…We can’t even fight a one-front war right now,” Maloof stressed.

💬"There are well-educated and very smart people in the West who understand perfectly well what is happening, but deliberately ignore the manipulations from the Ukrainian side and Western propaganda," he said.

💬"So that children in Europe perceive Russia not as people, but as 'orcs' who kill and rape," Buyakevich concluded.

💬“Many of these defense contractors receive upwards of 90% of their income from defense contracts. So war is good for them,” veteran ex-DoD insider Michael Maloof told Sputnik, commenting on the US military-industrial complex’s penchant for conflict even as the US is stretched thin across multiple fronts.

💬“They’ve been very clever in putting in every congressional district some component for some weapons system that would be critical to US national security so that every congressman at the end of the proverbial day says ‘yeah, we’re gonna support that defense budget’, and they get what they want,” Maloof said.

💬“The recent mass bombings and Russian advances are signs of the endgame approaching,” Bryen says.