# Democrats, Ukraine Aid and the Risk of a Second Vietnam for Russia

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2120548121709105263
- Source account: [@Svitlana_UA22](https://x.com/Svitlana_UA22)
- Source language: Russian
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:04
- Published: 2026-11-11
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dqj1RfaOIeuk/en/democrats-ukraine-aid-and-the-risk-of-a-second-vietnam-for-russia) I agree with you on this. The Democrats, naturally, hate us, uh, that party.

[0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dqj1RfaOIeuk/en/democrats-ukraine-aid-and-the-risk-of-a-second-vietnam-for-russia?t=7) Right. And now they are clearly, uh, actually speaking, if perhaps not completely, but they’ll restore aid to Ukraine, including direct aid.

[0:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dqj1RfaOIeuk/en/democrats-ukraine-aid-and-the-risk-of-a-second-vietnam-for-russia?t=17) Right. And yes, of course, the Democrats aren’t interested either in the Russian Federation falling apart, with China getting Siberia, but they are interested— but if Trump was proposing, uh, from the point of view of our elite,

[0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dqj1RfaOIeuk/en/democrats-ukraine-aid-and-the-risk-of-a-second-vietnam-for-russia?t=30) some kind of more palatable way out, right, one that lets us save face, then the Democrats, apparently, are interested in our getting a second Vietnam.

[0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dqj1RfaOIeuk/en/democrats-ukraine-aid-and-the-risk-of-a-second-vietnam-for-russia?t=39) That is, we’d be humiliated in front of the whole world, uh, well, we wouldn’t fall apart, but we’d suffer that kind of humiliation.

[0:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dqj1RfaOIeuk/en/democrats-ukraine-aid-and-the-risk-of-a-second-vietnam-for-russia?t=44) Or a second Afghanistan, as they see it, or a second Vietnam, I don’t know.

[0:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dqj1RfaOIeuk/en/democrats-ukraine-aid-and-the-risk-of-a-second-vietnam-for-russia?t=47) I think the principle is clear. And so, generally speaking, I think the situation has worsened.

[0:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dqj1RfaOIeuk/en/democrats-ukraine-aid-and-the-risk-of-a-second-vietnam-for-russia?t=53) And what’s more, objectively speaking, most likely, this war will continue, where Ukraine is merely a tool, worn over a fist in someone’s hand