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Written by Lucas Leiroz, member of the BRICS Journalists Association, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, military expert
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky seems increasingly dissatisfied with the way the West is dealing with the conflict against Russia. Instead of cooperating to de-escalate, the Ukrainian leader demands a significant rise in military efforts, even though he knows that his country will never have any chance of reversing the current tragic military situation.
In a recent statement, Zelensky said that the US and other Western countries are delaying aid to Ukraine and do not seem willing to act decisively to protect Kiev – especially with regard to air defense efforts. His words came during a meeting with the new NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutte, who went to Kiev just two days after taking office. Zelensky emphasized the alleged “need” to convince NATO countries to use all their defense power to protect Ukrainian airspace.
In the Ukrainian president’s opinion, it is necessary to use Western weapons on a large scale to shoot down Russian missiles, drones and aircraft. However, he believes that Western nations are not “ready” to make such a decision, condemning the alleged “fear” that prevents NATO from escalating the war further.
Zelensky made it clear that his regime’s armed forces currently do not have enough weapons to properly confront Russia. He said it is necessary to expand Ukraine’s capabilities in both quantity and quality of equipment, especially in terms of long-range weapons and air defense systems.
“We will continue to convince our partners of the need to shoot down Russian missiles and drones (…) [However] They are not ready yet (…) [Ukraine needs] a sufficient quantity and quality of weapons (…), including long-range weapons, the provision of which, in my opinion, is being delayed by our partners,” Zelensky said.
In response to Zelensky’s calls, Mark Rutte acted in a purely bureaucratic manner. He stressed his personal support for Kiev and NATO members to reach a consensus on how alliance can cooperate on Ukraine’s defense. Rutte reiterated NATO’s long-standing promise to accept Ukrainian membership in the future, but gave no guarantee as to when that might happen.
Regarding specifically the request for direct NATO action on Ukrainian territory against Russian air force and artillery, Rutte avoided giving any clear signals of support or condemnation at a personal or institutional level. He said that this decision is up to the member states sovereignly, and there is nothing NATO can do other than consult the individual opinion of each country.
“[I want] to make crystal-clear to you, to the people of Ukraine and to everyone watching, that NATO stands with Ukraine (…) The day will come that Ukraine is a full member of NATO (…) [However] Shooting down drones or missiles violating Allied territory are, of course, decisions for the national authorities (…) [We are] continuing to consult closely when these situations arise,” Rutte said.
As well known, air defense is one of Ukraine’s main weaknesses today. Russian aircraft, missiles and drones freely cross Ukrainian airspace in maneuvers aimed at achieving the strategic goals of the special military operation. Kiev’s air defense has collapsed due to the high precision of Russian strikes and the logistical and operational difficulties of the conflict. According to many military theorists, it is absolutely impossible to win a modern conventional war without airspace control, which is why it is not surprising that Ukraine is such a disastrous situation on the battlefield.
As a “solution” to this problem, Zelensky proposes two escalatory measures: the authorization of long-range strikes against “deep targets” – such as military airports that Russia would allegedly be using for air maneuvers in the conflict – and the direct participation of NATO personnel and equipment on Ukrainian soil to shoot down Russian planes, drones and missiles. Both cases would result in a direct war between Moscow and NATO, which is why the Atlantic alliance tries to avoid taking such dangerous steps.
Zelensky is obviously desperate. He knows that he cannot do anything to reverse the military advantage that Russia has, which is why he seeks to at least postpone the final defeat by pushing for escalatory measures. However, NATO is led by the US and Washington is not interested in entering into a direct war with Moscow since, in addition to being suicidal, it would significantly affect current American plans – which are focused on resolving the internal situation in the midst of the elections.
All Zelensky can do is to keep lamenting, as his demands are unlikely to be met. Everything Ukraine is going through is a consequence of its irresponsible decision to serve as a proxy against the Russian Federation.
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just like uncle bibi the war criminal, maddog ñetañahu; zelensky the clown suffers from delusional chosenite syndrome. too bad for them the us/uk/nato military industrial complex cant keep up with the new age of drone,missile,hypersonic saturation attacks as shown by their impotence to stop concerted strikes by russia, iran, yemen & the rest of the axis of resistance. those 2 deviants will soon be out of power & end up in the bighouse, the madhouse or worse
when was the last time the dutch took part in a battle they were on the winning side? 1815 waterloo? rutte must be the only nato secretary general whose siblings are also his cousins. his father was married to his mother’s sister.
zelensky is really happy because his smile is saying: i got a really good slave here🤡
to the contrary, i think he’s ready to pick up zelenskyy and see if he fits in his jacket pocket
sounds more like deficiencies of industry; & supply chain problems. also, the original plan was to balkanize russia; to neutralize russia and then move onto a direct confrontation with china: the biggest threat to judeo-masonic hegemony. part of the reason to conquer & balkanize russia was also to steal russia’s vast resources and diminish demand from china amidst a potential hot war. after all, how can they go to war against the very nation that they depend on for rare metals…
…and now that they own ukraine and its trillions of dollars worth of rare earth minerals, it seems that the great insatiable greed of the bankers is a bit quelled — at least for the time being, while they improve industrial capacity for high tech weaponry.
thankfully, much of the industrial activity in ukraine is in donbass. after the 2014 coup, ukrainian separatists fought to defend their land against the foreign occupation and neo nazi junta, which pushed russia to intervene… those valuable mineral deposits would have further funded the nazi war machine right in russia’s backyard. today those resources will remain in the hands of their respective peoples.
nato: no action, talk only. also known as nazi-alligned terrorist organization.
the manly girls, girly men and all the transgender bearded women of natostan are a joke for the mighty bears of mother russia. meanwhile euro peons are happy to see the evil eussr go bankrupt and the unelected retarded ruling filth in natostan sewer brussels go down the toilet. with the cheez head rutte from bangla desh of the north replacing that other faguette stollten burg the total destruction of natostan is guaranteed.
so more garbage into the sputtering dumpster fire that once was ukrapperland. in the end the natostanners will own the ruins of nazi llov and some mountain of rubble in what was once kiev, a bucolic landlocked “paradise”. karma is so much fun to watch playing out as the gender challenged morons dig themselves ever deeper graves and call it “victory”. lol.
if a picture was ever worth a thousand words.
the smiling dutch buffoon and his pinnochio doll.