Posted on 05/06/2024 12:21:11 PM PDT by marshmallow
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia will treat F-16 multi-role fighter jets operated by Ukraine as nuclear-capable assets, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
"We cannot ignore the fact that these planes are dual-purpose platforms that can be used both for nuclear and non-nuclear tasks … No matter what modification of the aircraft will be supplied [to Ukraine] we will treat them as nuclear-capable and we will consider this step of the United States and NATO as a purposeful provocation," the ministry said in a statement.
The ministry further warned the regime in Kiev and its Western donors that their reckless behavior was driving the conflict in Ukraine to the point of no return.
"The regime in Kiev and its Western sponsors should realize that their reckless steps are bringing the situation closer to the point where it will attain ‘critical mass’ and explode," the ministry said.
The ministry also said that some NATO member states were purposefully dragging the alliance into a direct armed conflict with Russia.
The ministry pointed to French President Emmanuel Macron who had suggested at several occasions that French and other NATO forces should be deployed to Ukraine to fight against Russian troops.
"These and some other actions of NATO member states indicate that they are deliberately trying to turn the Ukrainian crisis into an open military clash between NATO countries and Russia in order to inflict a ‘strategic defeat’ on our country," it said.
In this regard, the ministry pointed out that upcoming military drills aimed at increasing the readiness of non-strategic nuclear forces should be perceived in the context of recent warlike statements made by Western officials and destabilizing actions of NATO.
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Mor saber rattling.
Oh what blustering. An artillery piece can be nuclear capable.
Not that Biden will ever give the Ukrainians more than blankets and C-Rats anyway.
Slouching towards armageddon, courtesy of the global statist Left.
France is sending troops.
This is going to end with canned sunshine. Is Kiev worth New York?
Is Kiev worth New York?
I’d rather trade for DC, but new york works too.
NATO is even more stupid than I realized.
“Is Kiev worth New York?”
Sorry, but I imagine that no one of any intelligence gives a shi...er...Dorkbama about New York. To parody the great Monty Python team:
‘Its metabolic processes are now ‘istory! It’s off the twig!
It’s kicked the bucket, it’s shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisible!!
In any case, NYC should be destroyed for allowing the pretend college abomination called Columbia to exist.
So . . . Russia will stop using its nuclear bombers. Datz nice.
Russian hypocrisy is boundless.
I am glad that was bad reporting.
Very glad.
Putin has his panties in a wad...
The Russians have already destroyed the only F-16 viable air base in West Ukraine. To fly the F-16s against Russia they will have to take off from NATO bases. Without question those bases will be destroyed after the first sortie. The Russians can not make that fact any more categorically than they already have.
The O’Bastard administration is looking to get WWIII going.
While Macron has suggested he would be willing to send troops if Russia were to break through... I have seen zero credible reports that French troops are already being sent.
On the other hand, the US has admitted it already has “advisors” on the ground (just like Vietnam started).
F-16 is no more “nuclear-capable” than existing Ukrainian aircraft or artillery (actually - the artillery actually IS capable - just need the munitions).
Ukraine would need a lot of anti-air protection for wherever they try to plant an F-16 fighter base.
In addition to a lot of shoulder and ground launch anti-air missiles all over Ukraine.
When Ukraine - for some reason - is no longer able to supply especially the shoulder-launched anti-air missiles in the quantity needed at the front.
“The Russians cannot make that fact any more categorically than they already have.”
Clearly so. If the Neocons want to their cities like New York, Chicago, and San Francisco and their people DESTROYED, only to later have them rebuilt like Hiroshima, then the Neocons can answer for that outcome.
(don’t ask, I’m not sure who’s side I’m on in that scenario)
Then where has the hundreds of billions gone?
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