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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
actually it’s you who is delusional because you trust in msm propagandas just like the germans did. imo
laughing at bibi and nato. the wonderful iron dome, which cannot handle hypersonic missiles from iran and wasn’t it a gift from the us? russian hypersonics and fab toys. has any nato member got a working and functional air defence system, that can handle hypersonics? has any nato member actually got any hypersonics in full working action. the world moves on and nato is reliant on toys from the last century. there again, why does nato employ so many failed politicians to lead it?
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.
the dutch are the tallest because they are full of air. despite coming to several fifa world finals they never get to deliver the goods. not even against andres iniesta in afrikaans.
lol, get your facts straight, we won both euro and world cup. try again
i guess you got confused by my omitting of 3 letters. so i will spelled completely so you can understand. most people would understand what a fifa world final is. so i will spell it completely to you. “fifa world cup cup cup finals” capeesh? capish? capiche?
viva lionel el messi! viva la mano de dios maradona. viva el campeón andreas onesta.
dutchlandia, the little empire that couldn’t.
no they eat horse. have for centuries.
dinaeic alps have the tallest people not netherland
they must drink a lot of milk over there. before and during puberty i consumed lots of nestlé gezuckerte kondensmilch and developed limited gigantism. my twin brother didn’t like dairies, he’s only 182 cm tall.
btw pope francis said ” the man who really controls the vatican comes bringing flowers” their flowers are delivered everyday all the way from. holland aka in english neverlands.
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
an astute analysis, as usual.
in a condom
he could go to nato soirees with zelensky’s heading popping out of his pocket instead of a carnation.
are you blind? look again who’s laughing his head off.?
rutte put his hand on zelensky’s chest to make sure he was still breathing.
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.
food you fool is the number one commodity.
a number 1 commodity that backs no currency, unlike petroleum or silver and gold, which do… make it make sense…
ukrainian food, cooks itself, before you get it home from the grocery store, thanks to chernobyl. the rest of the food, who wants to digest anything produced using gates chemicals?
get your facts straight ukraine was about a third of the russian steppes the most valuable richest farmlands on earth the soils so rich its almost jet black the jesuits bought it at fire sale prices operating from the trading name of monsanto. that’s theirs. allegedly
whatever they grow will be fruit of the poisoned soil.
then came gates. there is no virus that he does not like.
aren’t the $trillions of ukraine’s natural resources in the area that has returned home to russia? besides the timber, what natural resources do they have in western ukraine?
they have amber, where in another million years they’ll find the remains of the afu.
it’s to globalise the whole new world under the pope as the one world moral authority for rule of law for f sake. what frigginn planet are you lost in space on?
oh dearie, the pope again? did he cast a voodoo spell on you or something?
nato: no action, talk only. also known as nazi-alligned terrorist organization.
are you mentally competent? who do you thinks running the whole thing, santa?
yes, santa, in cahoots with the english pope and some jesuits just back from issuing directives to their minions in japan..
go back into your bunker, little adolf.
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.
…indeed! when you see the photo, you don’t know whether to laugh or howl? zelenskaya stands next to rutte like his dog, which is being presented right now.
it couldn’t be more humiliating!
correct. and look at him gloating with glee as their plans fall perfectly into place
their plans are falling into place like jigsaw puzzle pieces salvaged from the titanic.
could be worse, they could be playing the piano, zelinsky style.
he knows he is done for so he needs to line his pockets before he leaves office
that’s the stupidest grin i’ve ever seen on a political hack.
he wants to show off all the dentalwork donated by lockheed martin.
usa-nato have used ukraine to bleed russia of 300,000 orcs…this is high level chess…poohtin is playing marbles…heheheh
yes and no. they play their games like romans the gladiators do fight to the death. to the winner goes the spoils.
hehehe dont believe it. the next round of peace, they are scheming and escalation is being planned by nato and zelensky and the us, eu and uk.
go and look at queen maximus education in south america where she did economics coincidentally at the uni where then pope francis worked. then look at her suicide sisters artworks. you’ll get the picture.
they love school boy sized men. go figure.
rutte, doing the natostani version of al paccino’s “say hello to my little friend”…
take a look at the image again. note where ruttes right hand middle finger is placed. now look at the man in the background to his right.
i thought it was fresh from being up zelensky’s culo.
the three stooges
mark rutte really got into the war mongering mood. look at them posing for pics safely happy away from the fighting demanding respect whilst they use billions to line their power hungry pockets promoting their falsehoids to the gullible controlled news orgs and public whilst they send the poor off to fight and die for their fanciful ideals. they are disgusting human beings along with all those who support them.
wasn’t a dutch mp fined for showing an image of two dutch mps, who were members of rutte’s party (when he was the pm) looking at a nazi flag, with smiles on their faces? how many recent nato secretary general’s have links to the nazis of the 40s? how many children who were part of ‘operation paperclip’ now lead nwo corporations and institutions?
leiroz an former comunist now a neo nazi fascist parroting the kremlin
what has nato got left to give ukraine? ukraine, which is not even a nato member. how much longer has nato got, before it is dismantled? well done russia.
in a week the orcs invasors would be already at moscow but you can eat icecream with your forehead , is the russias pros specialty
reality is that the west is a bad loser. prepare for a false flag, how about a nice little tactical nuke by the west with russia blamed as next stage?
after i reclaim 17 former cities now ruled by lgbt mulattos in former usa ramses saxon will be evicted from portland fentanyl hotel
rutte was always a clown! the us, the faggots in westminster and the meek in the eu, have given away any surplus of weapons to the clown and he’s squandered the stuff all over the ukie country-side as scrap and for the russians to take home and put it in the museum! the west is more or less finished!