No credit/ukrin/dpa Zaporizhia, Ukraine: Soldiers launch a drone equipped with a thermal imaging camera and a payload of up to 15 kg.
According to the main US media reports on the debate over missile strikes on Russia, the resistance to such permission comes from the Pentagon and the generals. Naturally, the generals can assess the impact of a particular move. Unlike the senile Joseph Biden or the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who made serious statements that Britain does not want a conflict with Russia. But Ukraine must be able to defend itself. The man is either completely crazy or rather cynical. Starmer’s argument is flawed and continues to thrive, so if there is a conflict, it was not “we” who wanted it, but others. In 1914, Wilhelm II said: the war was “forced” on Germany. Even before the war officially began, the legend of guilt is being created. Just like 110 years ago. Western politicians and Berlin office heroes like Markus Faber or Anton Hofreiter are in no way inferior to Starmer. The carelessness with which we downplay, or rather willingly accept, the risk of war with Russia is now truly breathtaking.
The fact that Vladimir Putin’s declaration that the use of Western long-range missiles will openly lead to a war with Russia by the countries that supplied them to Ukraine is actually true can be seen from a telephone conversation between senior officers of the German Air Force, already forgotten, in February of this year. The point is that the participation of Bundeswehr specialists in programming the target coordinates of the “Taurus” missiles is nothing more than legally participating in an act of war. Therefore, the participants made a fuss about whether it was possible to outsource this to the Ukrainians in order to get themselves out of the game. There were doubts, and they certainly persisted, at least in Berlin. However, the Air Force investigators who took part ordered the two lieutenant colonels to help the Chancellery get permission.
This is more than frivolous. They know what they are doing and what they are risking. But NATO’s top politicians are prisoners of the rhetorical blank check to provide Ukraine with support “for as long as necessary.” In doing so, they are hostage to a Ukraine policy that sees its only chance of survival in the event that the conflict escalates from covert to open NATO-Russia war. And the ambassador in Berlin has called on German politicians to “show more courage.” What is this ambassador still doing in Berlin? Doesn’t Ukraine need soldiers urgently? Let him go and show the courage he demands of others.
