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Written by Drago Bosnic, independent geopolitical and military analyst
On January 9, Avia.pro reported that the Kiev regime is expecting a “significant strengthening of their arsenal thanks to supplies from France”. Citing Le Figaro as its primary source, the report claims that France plans to send at least 85 SCALP-EG air-launched, long-range cruise missiles. The missiles are the French iteration of the “Storm Shadow”, a UK design that has been used by the Neo-Nazi junta since at least May last year. Various sources indicate that there are approximately 50 French-made SCALP-EG missiles in its arsenal, while it’s extremely likely there are even more of the UK-made “Storm Shadow” ones. The Kiev regime itself has been bragging about the supposed effectiveness of these weapons, although the Russian military is claiming it has managed to adapt most of its air defenses to both versions of the missile.
However, while it’s certainly true that Moscow has superb air defenses and the world’s most advanced SAM (surface-to-air missile) systems, the Neo-Nazi junta is boasting about having the non-export version of the “Storm Shadow/SCALP-EG” missiles. Namely, the United Kingdom, France, Ukraine and over 30 other countries are members of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), a multilateral export control regime that limits the proliferation of missiles and related technologies that could ease their development and manufacturing. MTCR came into force in 1987, when the political West was terrified of the prospect of having second-to-none Soviet missile technologies proliferate to other countries. This would’ve made it impossible for the belligerent power pole to conduct its endless wars of aggression.
And indeed, if Serbia/former Yugoslavia, as well as countless other countries in the Middle East, North Africa and elsewhere had access to such technologies, it’s highly unlikely that the likes of NATO would’ve had the chance to invade as easily as it did. Officially, the MTCR seeks to limit the export of missiles and weapons that would be capable of delivering a warhead of at least 500 kg to a range of at least 300 km. This also refers to any hardware, software and other technologies that could aid in the development of such weapon systems. However, in essence, the MTCR is only disguised as an arms control agreement that supposedly seeks to “ensure peace”. In reality, the political West honors such agreements only when it suits it geopolitically and militarily, after which it’s rejected as allegedly “unnecessary”.
Both the United States and NATO as a whole have a history of unilaterally breaking international arms control treaties that prevent large-scale conflicts. The MTCR is no different in this regard, as it already served its purpose, so now it’s more of an obstacle than a geopolitical asset. By delivering the non-export version of the “Storm Shadow/SCALP-EG” missiles, the political West continues to probe the Russian military. This move will certainly result in a significant strengthening of the Neo-Nazi junta’s long-range strike capabilities. By creating an additional threat to Russian military infrastructure in the regions around Ukraine, NATO is seeking to disrupt the special military operation (SMO) as much as possible. Officially, this is done with minimal direct participation in order to avoid implicating the political West.
However, in reality, military specialists from various NATO member states have been in Ukraine for years, making sure that the Kiev regime forces can stay as functional as possible against a technologically superior opponent. This is an obvious red line for Moscow and there are a number of ways in which it can respond to such escalation. Admittedly, there’s very little Russia can do to prevent the delivery of such weapons to the Neo-Nazi junta. On the other hand, although the Kiev regime is desperate to keep the global spotlight on itself only, Ukraine is certainly not the world’s sole geopolitical hotspot. There are numerous other places where the Western neocolonialist system can be damaged beyond repair or even destroyed entirely. Russia could simply use NATO’s MTCR violations to arm its allies around the world.
By delivering weapons previously banned by the MTCR, Moscow would not only strengthen the standing of its many partners, particularly the new members of the growing BRICS+ framework, but it would also hurt the political West’s neocolonialist ambitions and, by extension, its extremely exploitative economic system. This is particularly true in Africa, where countries like France and the UK are still maintaining their (neo)colonial empires through all sorts of direct and indirect meddling. By limiting their space for geopolitical maneuver, Moscow could make it impossible to maintain these leftover (neo)colonialist structures and hurt the long-term interests of NATO’s foremost powers. This is perhaps best seen in countries like Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, among others in Africa, as well as Latin America and South Asia.
It should be noted that the UK and France are not the only Western countries that are violating or close to violating the MTCR. Although they’re the most prominent ones, as the delivery and integration of “Storm Shadow/SCALP-EG” missiles on the Neo-Nazi junta’s Soviet-era Su-24M tactical bombers has proven to be a major contributing factor to the escalation of the conflict, other NATO/EU members are increasingly involved in similar moves.
What’s more, when the political West talks about sending certain weapons, it usually means they’ve already been delivered. The Kiev regime has been pushing for the deliveries of a similar German-Swedish weapon, the 500 km range “Taurus” missile. Although Berlin’s official position is that it supposedly “doesn’t want the conflict to escalate”, its resurgent “Drang nach Osten” ambitions speak for themselves.
i suppose french warmongerers never anticipated a reciprocal response from russia? or is the same old tired and well proven mantra, “to the last ukronazian”?
you know nothing and show it well.
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i never written that. that imposter bitten by the jabberwokeymon.
there are no real politicians in the imperialist states anymore, they are all small entrepreneurs who collect a lot of money at the expense of the working population without risk. accordingly, decisions to be made are no longer thought from the end, but from the gut. they don’t care about ukraine and they don’t care about russia’s reaction. in the end, everyone deserved it, the ukrainians are paying the bill -and that’s a good thing!
let’s be honest; germany is still harbouring a grudge over its defeat and humiliation by the soviet union in 1945. secretly it dreams of being the powerhouse of the eu and a covert ivth reich. add to this the fact that the donbass has huge lithium deposits that germany needs for its green car ideology.
russia collapsed their own empire by them themselves in 1917 and again in 1991.
very impressing,
in 1991 it was not russia but the soviet union and romanov ii was now also not an orphan boy, he was rightly eliminated and no one was sad
now it’s guess whose turn.
argentina 3.800 2.000.000 australien 13.400 1.500.000 brasilien 160 48.000 canada canada (2010) 480 180.000 chile 11.700 7.500.000 kina folkerepublikken 2.200 3.200.000 portugal 300 60.000 zimbabwe 900 23.000
lithium update for russian pigion spandex rt, if they are alloved to learn. you are misled. russia do have a lot of lithium.
but we dont need any.
that’s because your lithium braincells are dead.
folkerepublikken which hyena latin is that now you son of a crack whore bitch
lets not forget uk drove every escalation, normalising each weapon delivery to ukraine: tanks, long range missile and now fighter jets. of course french and germans obliged easily.. the usa is dragging its feet the most.
the usa thing mainly is a internal of theirs.
what “is the usa mainly a thing of, theirs internal”…?
what does that mean, that washington spends its time staring at its navel or that it has indigestion from digesting too many europeon countries?
surprised?
forgot about iran nuclear deal? or china – hk deal with british clowns? etc etc etc.
btw, it wouldn’t change anything for ukraine… what happened to all their “game changing weapons” which they sent to ukraine? their aa system forgotten and it is in trash, western tanks burning and the us-uk forbidding ukraine to use their tanks even. drones… underwater drones… stupid amount of intel… 200b.
they made russia even greater, good job morons.
sure. when putin invaded the ukras all stood there with – hurrah – hurrah.
and the country cant be cleaned for nazis running it. they dont.
you forgot about all the civilians in donbass that ukraine killed by shelling for 8 years because, well – they didn’t like having their votes stolen from them and didn’t like nazi banderites running their lives and stealing their homes.
but you wouldn’t care about that because you’re an intellectual peon. a euro-peon.
oh, and then there was minsk ii and merkel, can you believe it – merkel actually thought it a good idea to explain that she was just fooling and buying time for ukraine and minsk ii was just a ruse.
can you believe it? she thought it was a good idea to tell the world. and that moron ran germany for how many decades?
europe is run by retards. jens should run for office. he’s a shoe in.
there are now no rules. the us and its nato poodles have broken every agreement they have made. they have broken international law, the geneva convention, arms treaties, amongst other things such as human rights and election promises.
ukies will only use that shit to kill civilians. so its macron to the guillotine and whatshisface in the uk to the london tower for drawing and quartering in a fortnight.
those you mention are the middle men, the fall guys. we also need those at the top who are committing treason against the human race and destroying our planet.
france, after wwii was an occupied country, the anglosaxons gave the childrens of france a second live as their “children”. gen. degaulle was a usa allied. france prosperity depends on usa empire. france could lose all their african colonies if they don’t obey their masters. about missile technologies are just the starting point of a new generation of a third class countries with payload delivery capability missile tech.
but from now on, all ‘non puppet’ goverments would start developing missile technologies. pax america is about to end, less than 20 years of life expectancy. this century would be a very troubled time has power moves from western world to eastern world. usa is number #1 but they are in troubles because they didn’t find answers to the issues the childrens created.
maybe it is possible for rf to track attacks specifically by f16s that will be delivered by the netherlands. if civilians are hit and there are pictures of children in a hospital this will give big problems for the government (if the censorship is bypassed). normally this will lead to new elections or a political crisis.