TheAltWorld The Ever Widening War-5
“Ukraine is already a de facto member of NATO.” — Oleksii Reznikov, Defense Minister of Ukraine
If reports are correct that modern Western weapon systems are slated to pour into Ukraine–the latest US and German tanks, Patriot missile systems, and other current weaponry–Minister Reznikov is correct.
These weapons imply that Ukraine has enough soldiers left to use them. It will require months to prepare Ukraine for these weapons. A logistical system is necessary for the delivery, maintenance, and protection of the weaponry from Russian air and missile attack. This will require US/NATO personnel on the ground in Ukraine if the weapons are to be effectively used.
In other words, the “limited military operation” has widened into a war between the US/NATO/Ukraine and Russia.
Apparently, it is going to be a war without a NATO declaration of war. The reason is that if all the weaponry promised is delivered, NATO and the US will be without fighting ability except in Ukraine where the weapons will be located. Russia could, if she had the leadership, simply sweep through weapons-depleted Baltics and Finland around Germany into France and circle back to Serbia, leaving East and West Europe cut off and surrounded. But this would make the war officially one with NATO, and the US would have to use its only means–nuclear weapons.
So it looks as if Russia will continue to pretend that there is only a limited military operation, and US/NATO will continue to pretend that the weapons are just aid to Ukraine.
A Russian military operation that the Kremlin should have completed in a few days eight years ago has now, once belatedly begun, extended another year. The consequence of the Kremlin’s unpreparedness and endless delay is a full-fledged involvement of US/NATO in the war with the aim of retaking Donbass and Crimea from Russia. The increased Ukrainian firepower means far more Russian casualties, and Washington’s involvement has passed the threshold at which Washington can accept a Russian victory.
It short, the Kremlin has blown its opportunity, and we are headed toward Armageddon.
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2023/01/12/the-ever-widening-war-24/
Richard+Cartwright
If the war widens beyond Ukraine/Russia it will entirely be the fault of the West under the US’s attempt to weaken Russia by using Ukraine as its proxy. You fail to mention or consider the 2014 Maidan violence which was instituted and led by the neocons in the State Department, assisted by the CIA to accomplish another regime change operation, replacing Ukraine’s legitimately elected president with one favored by the US. This accomplished, the neo-Nazis (who hate Russians) proceeded to murder them in the eastern Ukraine as official policy of the government for eight years before Russia responded with the only method understood by Nazis—the use of force. That the US encourages and prolongs this war by continuing to support the Nazi-dominated leadership of Ukraine is disgraceful. This article is like many that don’t reveal the full history of this event and support western propaganda.
Joel Quintero E.
Paul Craig belive knows more than Kremlim and Putin he Is apocaliptic and yellowish, for selling more his articles.