Putin Finally Threw down the Gauntlet
Putin Finally Threw down the Gauntlet
Many analysts have been baffled by the almost Taoistic manner in which Russian President V Putin allowed the Collective West to hide behind Ukraine and launch a vicious war against it.
Ordinary Russians are perplexed why the man whose country controls the keys to the world’s largest arsenal of nuclear weapons allowed NATO countries to cross its many redlines.
Finally, it appears that the unflappable Russian leader has had enough of the chicaneries of the sociopaths in the Collective West with their insatiable appetite for wars, violence, and wholesale destruction.
The CNN headlined it thus: Russia will be ‘at war’ with NATO if Ukraine long-range missile restrictions lifted, Putin warns - https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/12/europe/putin-warns-nato-missiles-hnk-latam-intl/index.html
Yesterday, Putin finally threw down the gauntlet. It is important to read his speech in its entirety as WE (all humans) perch precariously on the verge of atomic annihilation. Would the cowardly sociopaths in the West step back from the abyss or will they recklessly pursue their folly that would end up in incinerating all of us in a nuclear inferno?
Answer to a media question, September 12 2024, Kremlin.ru
Question: Over the past few days, we have been hearing statements at a very high level in the UK and the United States that the Kiev regime will be allowed to strike targets deep inside Russia using Western long-range weapons. Apparently, this decision is either about to be made, or has already been made, as far as we can see. This is actually quite extraordinary. Could you comment on what is going on?
These were the exact words of Russian President Vladimir Putin: “There is an attempt to substitute concepts. Because we are not talking about allowing or prohibiting the Kiev regime from striking at Russian territory. It is already striking with the help of unmanned aerial vehicles and other means. But when it comes to using high–precision long-range Western-made weapons, it's a completely different story. The fact is that, as I have already said, and any experts will confirm this (both here and in the West), the Ukrainian army is not able to strike with modern high-precision long-range systems of Western production. It can't do that. This is possible only with the use of satellite data, which Ukraine does not have — this is data only from satellites of either the European Union or the United States, in general, from NATO satellites. This is the first one. The second, and very important, perhaps key, is that flight missions to these missile systems can, in fact, only be carried out by military personnel of NATO countries. Ukrainian servicemen cannot do this. And therefore, it is not a question of allowing the Ukrainian regime to strike Russia with these weapons or not to allow it. It's about deciding whether NATO countries are directly involved in a military conflict or not. If this decision is made, it will mean nothing more than the direct participation of NATO countries, the United States, and European countries in the war in Ukraine. This is their direct involvement. And this, of course, significantly changes the very essence, the very nature of the conflict. This will mean that NATO countries, the United States, and European countries are at war with Russia. And if this is the case, then, bearing in mind the change in the very essence of this conflict, we will make appropriate decisions based on the threats that will be created to us."
Putin’s spech was further reinforced today by his UN envoy, Vassily Nebenzia, who said: “Granting Kiev permission to use Western-supplied weapons would constitute direct involvement in the Ukraine conflict by NATO.
Moscow will treat any such attack as coming from the US and its allies directly, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday, explaining that long-range weapons rely on Western intelligence and targeting solutions, neither of which Ukraine is capable of.
NATO countries would “start an open war” with Russia if they allow Ukraine to use long-range weapons, Nebenzia told the UN Security Council on Friday.
“If such a decision is made, that means NATO countries are starting an open war against Russia,” Moscow’s envoy said. “In that case, we will obviously be forced to make certain decisions, with all the attendant consequences for Western aggressors.”
“Our Western colleagues will not be able to dodge responsibility and blame Kiev for everything,”Nebenzia added. “Only NATO troops can program the flight solutions for those missile systems. Ukraine doesn’t have that capability. This is not about allowing Kiev to strike Russia with long-range weapons, but about the West making the targeting decisions.”
Russia considers it irrelevant that Ukrainian nationalists would technically be the ones pulling the trigger, Nebenzia explained. “NATO would become directly involved in military action against a nuclear power. I don’t think I have to explain what consequences that would have.” - https://www.rt.com/russia/603985-nato-war-russia/
Will the warmongers in NATOstan pull back from their foolish powerplay or will we all be consumed in atomic firestorm?
Frantz Fanon warned us about sixty years ago: “Leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man, yet murder men everywhere they find them, at the corner of every one of their own streets, in all the corners of the globe. For centuries they have stifled almost the whole of humanity in the name of a so-called spiritual experience. Look at them today swaying between atomic and spiritual disintegration…
“Europe now lives at such a mad, reckless pace that she has shaken off all guidance and all reason, and she is running headlong into the abyss; we would do well to avoid it with all possible speed..."
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