“Lift Restrictions on Ukraine’s uUse of Western-Provided Weapons To Strike Deep into Russia,” and do so with “alacrity,” 17 self-proclaimed bigwigs of the U.S.-U.K. establishment urged in a Sept. 10 open letter they headlined “Let Ukraine Strike Back.” These former Ambassadors, retired generals, and so-called “experts” cavalierly dismissed out of hand any concern that this would be dangerous or even that Russia would respond at all. “After more than 900 days of war, we can safely assert that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s repeated threats are nothing less than an attempt to deter Ukraine’s partners from properly arming her. Easing the restrictions on Western weapons will not cause Moscow to escalate. We know this because Ukraine is already striking territory Russia considers its own—including Crimea and Kursk—with these weapons and Moscow’s response remains unchanged,” they wrote.
The signers are all well-known war hawks. They include the co-founder and CEO of the U.K.’s rabid Henry Jackson Society Alan Mendoza; two fellows from Chatham House (also known as Royal Institute of International Affairs/RIIA); the son of Zbigniew Brzezinski, Ian Brzezinski, from the Atlantic Council; eight former U.S. ambassadors, the ridiculous Michael McFaul among them; retired U.S. Generals Wesley Clark, Philip Breedlove and Ben Hodges; etc.
