AUTHOR: TYLER DURDEN
The Netherlands is the last NATO country to announce that it supports Ukraine's approval to attack Russia's territory with its weapons. More importantly, she joined Denmark, which stated that does not argue the usage by Kiev F-16 to attack Russia.
"If you have the right to self-defense, There are no limits to the usage of weapons. This is the general rule" – He said A fewer days ago, Dutch abroad Minister Hanke Bruins Slot. Kiev can receive its first F-16 in a fewer weeks.
This happened immediately after the Danish abroad Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen was the first to declare specified a policy, saying that it would "be compatible with the rules of war".
"We have made it clear from the very beginning... that this is part of self-defense so that military targets can besides be attacked in the aggressor's territory," Rasmussen of Brussels said at the end of last week.
The Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and Belgium are part of an approved by US "fighter coalition", which will oversee dozens of U.S. F-16 fighters transferred to Ukraine's armed forces. The Netherlands itself has undertaken to deliver 24 jets, and the first deliveries are expected this summer.
Moscow sees this "green light" as a fresh provocation and escalation, given that the F-16 are capable of carrying tactical atomic weapons. Russia had earlier said that it would have no choice but to presume that any F-16 could be armed with atomic weapons.
President Putin warned against "serious consequences" after the Kremlin had warned earlier that NATO bases, from which these jets are deployed, could be attacked.
However, on Friday, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg ignored Moscow's warnings, saying:
"It's nothing new.. Ma ... It has been for a long time that whenever NATO allies supply support to Ukraine, president Putin He's trying to endanger us not to.".
"And escalation – well, Russia escalated by invading another country".
It is likely that the Russian military will effort to attack the fighters delivered by the West to Ukraine as shortly as they enter its territory, as Russia maintains an air advantage over most of the country.
Not all NATO fighters' coalition members rapidly gave green light to attacks on Russia's territory.
Although politics can change, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo at the beginning of this week reserved that the jets he gives Ukraine can only be utilized against Russia in the territory of Ukraine.
"Everything that is covered by this agreement is very clear: it is for usage by Ukrainian defence forces in Ukraine" – He said De Croo in consequence to a journalist's question last week.
He said this at a time erstwhile president Zelenski was late in Brussels to sign a defence pact with a Belgian government worth nearly EUR 1 billion.
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source:https://www.zerohedge.com/
