Get ready for the next round of escalation against Russia. The promised Leopard and Abrams battle tanks are months away from being delivered, but the stage is already being set for the offering of F-16s and long range missiles to the Kiev regime. On top of that, the prospect of direct NATO/Russia confrontation is on the table.
Chair of the NATO Military Committee Adm. Rob Bauer (Netherlands) reportedly told Portugal’s RTP TV channel that the Alliance is prepared for a direct confrontation with Russia. “Rob Bauer insists that NATO is prepared for a direct confrontation with Russia and admits that rearmament is the Alliance’s top priority. He also acknowledges that the organization has lost its monopoly on military initiative,” RTP reports, according to a report from Ukrainska Pravda. According to TASS, Bauer stressed that NATO should be better prepared because currently Russia has the military initiative. “The fact that your enemy has better weapons is not the problem of the enemy. That is your problem,” said Bauer.
NATO may be sticking to the fiction of Article 5, but it is already deeply involved in Ukraine and will be getting deeper. Mykhailo Podolyak, advisor the Head of the Office of President Zelenskyy, claimed in a TV interview that discussions are already ongoing about the U.S. provision of ATACMS, the Army TACtical Missile System missile which has a range of some 300 km, about three times that of the guided rockets that have been provided for the regime’s use in is HIMARS launchers.
“To drastically reduce the Russian army’s key weapon—the artillery they use today on the front lines—we need missiles that will destroy their depots,” he said, reported the Washington Times. “Therefore, firstly, negotiations are already underway. Secondly, negotiations are proceeding at an accelerated pace.”
