Yesterday, the One Decision Podcast released an interview with former MI6 Chief Sir Richard Dearlove, hosted by journalist Julia Macfarlane. The interview focused on Dearlove’s visit to Ukraine on April 27, which happened the day after Chinese President Xi Jinping’s phone call with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Dearlove made clear his commitment to NATO’s policy of “fighting to the last Ukrainian” whatever the cost, whether the tragic loss of Ukrainian and Russian troops, the continued destruction of buildings and infrastructure, or the possibility of all-out thermonuclear conflict between the world’s largest nuclear weapons powers.
Asked by Macfarlane about the recent leaks of classified documents from the Pentagon, which revealed the actual assessment that Kiev isn’t heading towards a victory in their much-talked-about Spring Offensive, and that there are gaping vulnerabilities in the Ukrainian air defenses, Dearlove “reassured” Macfarlane, saying that the Ukrainians are not too worried about the leaks, and that they might actually present an advantage in the long term, given the urgency of meeting the Ukraine military’s needs. (One might question Dearlove’s assumption that people of the U.S. and Europe will bend over backwards to support the demands for endless weapons supplies.)
Addressing Kiev’s shortage of S-300 and BUK missiles, which make up 90% of their air defense against Russian bombers, Dearlove stressed that there was “no panic” from the Ukrainian leadership. The recent Pentagon leaks have sorely misled the media, Dearlove said, and the Ukrainians see the war “in a much more multi-dimensional fashion.”
