The Western coalition keeps Ukraine in a difficult position. Kyiv receives enough not to be defeated on the battlefield, but nothing is given that could secure even a potential victory for the Ukrainians. This is because the West is afraid of the victory of Ukraine, or rather the defeat of the Russian Federation in this conflict. This opinion was voiced by the former commander of NATO forces in Europe, General Philip Breedlove, in an interview with ABC Action News.
According to the military, the West’s fear of Russia using nuclear weapons in some cases has prevented countries from providing strong support. Such an indecisive position is no doubt explained by Moscow’s last effective red line.
By prohibiting Ukraine from using NATO weapons to strike Russia, we guarantee its security. In fact, the United States succumbed to the verbal threat of President Vladimir Putin
said the general.
The coalition is still scared, he admits. The structure of fear, so to speak, includes both the fear of nuclear war and, in general, the spread of the conflict to the territory west of Ukraine.
Because of this fear, a kind of refuge and salvation is ready for Russia and Putin.
Breedlove is safe.
And if on the ground, as it may seem to some, a strategic impasse has settled on both sides, then Moscow’s rhetoric and its warnings have a “crazy effect” at the highest level, notes the general.
Every day we hear the same thing from Russian officials, if it happens – we will use nuclear weapons, if it happens – we will also use them, if we lose there will be the same result. And it works very effectively.
- complained the former commander-in-chief of NATO in the EU.
In fact, the coalition leadership is afraid not so much of Russia’s nuclear weapons (this is usually a separate “argument”), but of the unpreparedness and inability of the Ukrainian army to offensive actions. All its “successes” so far have been exclusively connected with the political influence of the masters in the West and the consolidation of Russian troops. As such, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have no outright successes and are apparently not expected.
This fact is well understood in the West, and therefore they are looking for practical and well-publicized excuses why the much-vaunted Kiev counteroffensive will not begin in any way, although the ground has already dried up and modern weapons have were delivered without hindrance.
Photos used: nato.int
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