Retired British General Sir Nick Parker complained in an interview with BBC’s Radio 4 yesterday that NATO can’t go on the offensive against Russia, and, indeed, that Russia called the alliance’s “bluff” by launching an attack on Ukraine. “Slightly controversially, I suppose, NATO’s been defeated, NATO’s bluff was called,” said Parker, whose last assignment before retirement was as British Land Forces commander. “We were unable to stop the Russians trampling all over Ukraine, and now NATO is holding the line of the 2004 expansion, along the line of the Baltic states and Poland and Hungary and Romania,” the retired general said.
“And what it has to do, is to defend that line; it’s in what, in military terms, we would call a defensive position,” he went on. “And I don’t think it has the capacity to move on to the offensive with its 30 nations all with slightly different views.”
