29 FEBRUARY 2024
Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin believes that if Ukraine loses the full-scale war with Russia, the latter will be forced to fight the entire North Atlantic Alliance.
Source: Austin’s statement at the US House Armed Services Committee hearing, as reported by European Pravda
Details: Although the hearing focused primarily on Austin’s hospitalisation at the beginning of the year, about which he did not notify either the White House or Congress in advance, the congressmen also asked several questions about how much US military assistance Ukraine requires.
The Defense Secretary emphasised that the approval of additional funding for Kyiv is important to prevent a situation in the world “where one country can redraw its neighbours’ boundaries and illegitimately take over its sovereign territory.”
Quote: “We know that if Putin is successful here, he will not stop. He will continue to take more aggressive actions in the region. And other leaders around the world, other autocrats around the world will look at this and will be encouraged by the fact that this happened and we failed to support a democracy,” he added.
Later, Austin clarified that if Ukraine loses on the battlefield, the Baltic countries may be threatened.
“If you are a Baltic state, you are really worried about whether you are next. They know Putin. They know what he is capable of. And, frankly, if Ukraine falls, I really believe that NATO will be in a fight with Russia,” the official said.
Background:
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced at a news conference last week that Ukraine had notified the United States, specifically Congress, of the need to approve a multibillion-dollar aid package within a month.
- However, in the House of Representatives, they intend to address the issue of avoiding a shutdown rather than helping Ukraine.
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It would be better not to let it come to that. Give Ukraine what it needs, and the job can be finished without a single NATO soldier needed.
No doubt Sir Facts. It should be NATO will fight with russia to ensure Ukraine is victorious!!!
I think NATO soldiers are needed now more than ever. All allies alongside Ukraine need to kick the crap out of pootin and his genocidal hoard!!!
If the West can’t or won’t provide Ukraine what is needed and in sufficient numbers, then yes, they should send troops.
The General; being on the receiving end of retarded racism from a putinaZi “official”, surely knows what type of people he is dealing with: primitive savages. Hamas and isis with nukes.
The U.K. had no treaty obligation to go to war when the Molotov-Ribbentrop Nazis attacked Poland in 1939, yet both the U.K. and US have an obligation to Ukraine under Budapest, which they have swept under the carpet. France and Germany too are guilty: they funded putler’s war chest and blocked Ukraine and Georgia from Nato.
The time for treating Ukrainians as second class citizens must surely now be over.
If Nato is prepared to fight for shithouse regimes like Orbanistan, but not innocent victims of putinaZi genocide like Ukraine, it must understand that its logic and morality are hopelessly out of kilter.
Unfortunately, you could write a book about things that are out of kilter in NATO and the West, Scradge. A fat book.