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U.S. Army retired Lt. Col. Scott Mann, a former Green Beret, contends that Russian forces will get into nasty guerilla warfare with defiant Ukrainian fighters during the invasion and the prolonged conflict will bleed their military dry.

“I look at the unconventional warfare or the fight that’s happening there, and I think you’re going to see a lot of guerrilla warfare coming soon,” Mann predicted in an interview with Fox News.

“These cities are going to get overrun, and it’s going to be a long, long haul for the Russians,” he assessed. “If they think because they occupy these cities, that they’re done – if you look at the fighting spirit of the Ukrainian people – they are in for a nasty guerrilla warfare campaign that is going to bleed them dry.”

He went on to point out that the situation in Afghanistan and the one in Ukraine are vastly different.

The first 10 days of war have proven that Ukraine has got a real chance to become an iceberg for Russia’s Titanic. #StopRussia pic.twitter.com/tFfsfikUwN

— UkraineWorld (@ukraine_world) March 5, 2022

“I’ve got to think that the Taliban are not liking what’s going on in Ukraine right now,” Mann remarked. “People are watching that and it is inspiring, regardless of your politics, to see people make a stand like that.”

The former special ops commander served in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was also the founder of Task Force Pineapple which courageously bypassed roadblocks by the Biden administration and went into enemy territory during the middle of the night to rescue American citizens and Afghans who were left behind when the U.S. military pulled out and the country fell into the hands of the Taliban in 2021.

“Even though it is horrific warfare, you have kind of a linear battlefield, and you have nation-states,” Mann noted. “I think volunteer groups, we have to be really careful about how we engage here and what we do.”

Ukrainian police in Mykolaiv have reportedly captured several Russian soldiers. #Ukraine #Russia pic.twitter.com/9NClgUdRXB

— UkraineUpdates (@Updates_UA) March 5, 2022

He compared the botched Afghanistan withdrawal to the “wild, wild west.” His team was comprised of veterans who had specific talents and knowledge regarding the country. The same could not be done for Ukraine because the circumstances are just too different.

Mann laid out for Fox News three reasons why the scenarios for the two countries are so different.

“The first one is leadership,” he articulated.

“If you contrast just the internal leadership at senior levels inside Ukraine versus Afghanistan, it is stark,” he commented. “You have the president of Ukraine saying ‘We don’t need a ride, we need ammo,’ … ‘if you can’t control the sky, give me planes,’ versus [then-Afghan President-Ashraf] Ghani and his staff scrambling for helicopters unannounced to flee and leave their people high and dry.”

The second reason is Ukraine’s embrace of nationalism.

“Ukraine has a national identity, and it runs deep, and they fight for it,” Mann told Fox News during his interview.

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“Afghanistan historically has not been as keen on a national identity,” he stated. “It’s primarily a status society, a tribal society.”

“The final one is the nature of the threat,” Mann asserted.

“If you look at Ukraine, they’re facing an external threat. Nothing unifies people more than an external threat,” he said.

“It brings us together fast, whether it’s a hurricane or the Russian bear,” Mann emphasized. “Whereas with the Taliban, that was an internal threat, that was a long-term insurgency that, you know, really applied a thousand cuts to the Afghan government.”

At the airport about to fly to Poland/Ukraine border. The international solidarity with Ukraine is astonishing – some American veterans on our flight are headed out to act as medics in the combat field, willing to stay as long as 6 months if necessary. One sold his car to come.

— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) March 5, 2022

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