Biden's administration gave Ukraine "enough weapons to bleed, not to win"

Back-translating from UNIAN:

"Former CIA chief: The USA deliberately gave Ukraine enough weapons to bleed, not to win

 Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine could have been stopped early if the U.S. and its allies had provided Ukraine with the weapons it needed from the start. Instead, a deliberate strategy was used to give Ukraine the weapons it needed to fight — but not enough to defeat Putin’s army, former CIA chief Ralph Goff told The Times. 

“If we had given the Ukrainians the proper weapons at the time, they could have driven the Russians out of the country. That didn’t happen. It set the stage for this longer, drawn-out, attritional war that we’re seeing today,” Goff said. 

He said President Biden and his allies allowed Putin to dictate the terms of the conflict and were nervous about sending Ukraine the equipment it needed at the right time because they feared the Russian leader would use nuclear weapons if he was close to defeat.

"[They] let Vladimir Putin and his nuclear sabre-rattling fool them. So they gave the Ukrainians these weapons, but they never gave them enough to win. They only gave them enough to bleed," he said. Goff noted that Putin had a "real mortal fear of Covid" during the pandemic, and "in my opinion, people who are that concerned about their health are not going to play high-stakes nuclear poker.""