AUTHOR: TYLER DURDEN
Head of Air Force of Ukraine Sergei Gołubcow said in an interview with the U.S. state Radio Free Europe/Radio Swoboda, that Kiev plans to store any of its F-16s in NATO countries for reserve and training purposes. Although this may sound like a pragmatic policy, especially since it would scare Russia distant from destroying the full fleet, due to the fact that president Putin has late laughed speculation About him plotting to attack NATO as "Bullshit."in fact, it increases the hazard of planet War III.
To clarify, although US Air Force Chief Frank Kendell claimed last summertime that F-16 "will not change the game" for Ukraineand Gołubcow himself confirmed in his last interview that "they are not panacea and we do not wear pink glasses", they both underestimate the atomic dimension. president Putin raised this issue in the spring of that year erstwhile notedthat "F-16 aircraft may besides carry atomic weapons and we will besides gotta consider this erstwhile organising our combat operations".
The Russian leader besides warned that "we would consider them legitimate targets if they operated from airports of 3rd countries, no substance where they are".
The common distrust between Russia and the United States is record-breaking and increasing from week to week, further exacerbating Ukraine's fresh attacks on Russian early-warning atomic weapons systems that may have remained silently approved by America. This happens erstwhile the United States leads Russia Dangerous game of atomic chicken.
With all this in mind, Russian abroad Minister Sergei Lavrow He said last period that "we cannot neglect to recognise the transportation of these systems (F-16) to the government in Kiev as NATO's intentional atomic signaling action".
However, he added that fresh Tactical atomic weapons exercises In his country they can "bring any sense" to NATO and deter them from crossing the final red line. However, judging by what Gołubcow just said, the United States wants to rise the stakes in their game of atomic chicken.
The point is that Russia cannot know whether the attacking F-16s are equipped with atomic weapons, especially if 1 of them from the Ukrainian "reservation" stationed in NATO states takes off from there and performs the mission without stopping at an airport controlled by Kiev. From the Kremlin's point of view, it would seem that equipped with atomic weapons and piloted by NATO F-16 are preparing to execute the first strike. In response, Russia can preventively destruct the base from which it departed, with or without tactical atomic weapons.
"New York Times"he has already quoted the unknown number of anonymous advisors of Biden who have informed that the priorities of the US and Ukraine are diverging, informing that "Ukraine has nothing to lose in escalation with Russia", while "Mr. Biden does".
It cannot be excluded, therefore, that Zelenski can commission 1 of his pilots to carry out the mission straight from NATO without prior stopping at an airport controlled by Kiev to provoke Russia's attack on the base from which she started in self-defense.
Given how Denmark approved Ukraine's usage of F-16 to strike on Russia's widely recognized territory, after its NATO colleagues approved Ukraine's usage of another weapon for the same thing is simply a frighteningly real script that the United States may not be able to stop. The only way to prevent this is by forcing the U.S. partners not to let Ukraine to store F-16s in their territory, but Biden most likely has no political will due to the fact that he fears accusations that he is afraid of president Putin.
The most radicalized ideologically anti-Russian hawks of the West and their media supporters may besides claim that forcing Ukraine to store all its F-16s in the country threatens to destruct them by Russia and thus completely squander NATO's months' preparations for this fresh escalation.
This can be utilized by his political opponents in the country before the November elections, so it is improbable that he would want to take advantage of the chance to return more voters against him utilizing this alleged "stupid policy".
Of course, the knife besides cuts both ways, and its opponents may besides claim that the most "foolish policy" is actually the approval of Ukraine to store F-16s in NATO countries, as this increases the hazard of planet War III, as explained in this analysis. Given that leading officials of the U.S. and Ukrainian Air Force do not even consider this weapon to be "a breakthrough" or "panaceum", as they themselves admit, it should not even be exposed due to this irresponsible risk.
Nevertheless, the F-16 will now inevitably be utilized after all time and investments, which have been put into training Ukrainian pilots, not to mention media sound over all these months.
The decision to store any of them in NATO has already been made, so it will only be revealed that Zelenski is truly willing to hazard everything by authorizing the mission of attacking Russia straight from 1 of these bases. He has motive and possibilities, which is why it wouldn't be amazing if he tried in desperation.
Translated by Google Translator
source:https://www.zerohedge.com/
