Over the weekend NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg backed growing calls within the alliance to allow Ukraine to strike inside Russian territory using Western-supplied weapons.
While this has without doubt already happened, especially in Crimea and utilizing UK missiles in particular, the Biden administration has on a public level at least maintained its prohibition against Kiev launching such attacks using US-made missile systems.
But the NATO chief in an interview with The Economist said “The time has come for allies to consider whether they should lift some of the restrictions they have imposed on weapons donated to Ukraine.”
“To deny Ukraine the possibility of using these weapons against legitimate military targets on Russian territory makes it very hard for them to defend themselves,” Stoltenberg added.
He did not mention the United States by name, but the provocative statements came days after US House Speaker Mike Johnson spoke out against the White House’s current prohibition. As things get more desperate for Ukrainian forces along collapsing front line positions, the hawks are urging a more muscular approach.
Speaker Johnson told Voice of America Wednesday that Washington attempting to “micromanage” Ukraine’s defense “is not good policy for us.”
He then said, “I think we need to allow Ukraine to prosecute the war the way they see fit,” emphasizing “They need to be able to fight back.”
In Kharkiv oblast, for example, where Russia is in the midst of a major new offensive to push the border back, Russian artillery is pummeling Ukraine forces from across the border.
While Ukraine has been launching drone and mortar attacks on the Belgorod region for months, it wants to more openly use long-range missile like the US ATACMS, with a 190-mile maximum range, to hit back harder.
The Kremlin has continued to threaten to attack any Western supplied weaponry or even NATO personnel wherever they might appear on the battlefield. Estonia has been the latest to openly call for placing Western troops in “rear” positions in Ukraine, following French President Macron’s urging the alliance to be open to sending troops.
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They just can’t wait to watch other people die in large numbers.
Tell me about it, a bunch of true devils.
You got a fifty pound child fighting an 800 pound gorilla…and you think it’s a good idea to give the kid a pocket knife? WTF is WRONG with these demented bastards? Are they ALL boosted? Don’t they realize that’s just gonna piss off the gorilla? A gorilla who, incidentally, KNOWS WHERE WE LIVE!!!
Anyone that stupid deserves to be vaporized.
Stop with anti-semites, bruh…definitely not cool.
If the semites would stop the anti gentilism thd anti semitism would cease to exist.
See: Jews spitting on Christians.
You fucking idiots will never convince me that all Jews are bad any more than you could convince me that all whites are good.
You’re just a bunch of hate filled bastards that I have no use for.
Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, YT.
A fifty pound spoiled brat with a bully protecting him from consequences.
All people who identify as “better” are supremacist.
You find me a jew who ain’t a supremacist and I’ll show you a gentile.
The term “chosen” means supremacist.
And they gave it to themselves via Moses.
better has nothing to do with highest power or authority, which is supremacy
Exactly.
So the idea of being “chosen” is a supremacist idea.
Stop bowing to your abusers.
…for the umpteenth time…the Central Sodomizer doesn’t bow to his abusers…he simply bends over.
HEY BUSCKWHEAT, CAN YOU PIN POINT WHERE IN HIS POST HE’S BEING ANTISEMITIC???? ASKIN FER A FRIEND.
The 50 pound child would have learned his lesson and taken his pocket knife home if he hadn’t been aided and abetted by a dying Empire.
Only a total babbling lunatic and completely corrupted indoctrinated leftist idiot would even consider any military attack inside Russia. The west’s meddling in Ukraine especially the top American Idiot Biden and his lunatics in congress funding the Ukraine debacle all need to take a long walk off a short pier !
In case no one has noticed Putin doesn’t bluff especially facing the clown world of Washington DC
The attack against Russia doesn’t start with an all out kinetic attack.
Think about that!!!
NATO chief proves he is insane.
The New World Order wants war, what to do about it?
The Bolsheviks want WWIII…no doubt about it and no one in the west has the stones to stand against the madness, so war it will be.
Yes the Bolsheviks: Biden, Netanyahu, NATO & all the other Pro Satan – Anti-Life Fucks.
First they want it against Russia … then they want it against Iran …
What a fucking tool.
…you gotta name at least one…it’s kinda a rule.
It’ll have to be different this time. The Russians in German uniforms attacking Poles worked the last time, so, they’ll dress up a bunch of Poles in German uniforms and attack some Russian troops.
I expect the same tactic in my neighborhood when the gloves come off…armed “newcomers” in police uniforms at my door for a “welfare check”
the ukies used the same tactic when they attacked the Donbass
I sugest we execute people like NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg.
it will save lives.
NATO says,”Let’s you and him fight”. Those European pussies aren’t going to fight any real military.
All of the Eurotrash don’t have any Militaries just a bunch of soon to be Dead Soldiers.
Fukraine, Israhell & Liewan All Evil contenders for Armageddon. Fukranians are Scum, Israhellis are Demons & Liewanians are just like the other Slant-Eyed Greedy Moneygrubber Fucks – May THEY ALL DIE – Not Us.
Usraelkrainwan.
Apparently Victoria Nuland is a man and can impregnate an elected government pussy with neo-con ideology…Obama just sucked.
These “One World Order” entities are possessed and possessed absolutely.
eurotrash fool
Hitler was a great leader of the German people,
don,t think Putin is in the same league YET….
Russia needs to put her foot down. Britain is just the right target for a good old fashioned bitch slapping.
IS MR. SHITHEAD GONNA PUT ON HIS UNIFORM AND LBE PICK UP HIS WEAPON AND BE FIRST ACROSS THE LINE???? NOPE HE’S GONNA KICK BACK IN SOME SWISS CHALET WATCHING EUROPE BURN.
The NATO chief can send his sons and relatives in to die for this stupidity, how about you make peace and stop this insanity!!