Posted on 03/05/2022 7:46:32 AM PST by libstripper
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg announced on Friday the alliance of Western nations will not fight for Ukraine. NATO will not send in ground troops and will not close the Ukrainian air space.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
I don’t agree but whether they do or should, they should not be announcing they will do nothing. Strategic ambiguity ties down Russian forces and forces Putin’s advisors to worry about the possibility of NATO intervention.
Don’t let your enemy attack someone, and let it be known you are so averse to actually fighting your enemy, that you rush to announce it. That will only cause Putin to believe you will allow anything to avoid a war.
Not being afraid to fight the Soviet Union was what kept them in check for 60 years. Strategically, this current posture causes wars.
Europe’s wars have been pushing borders back and forth for over a thousand years, and they never needed our help in doing it.
It was only 100 years ago that Woodrow Wilson stuck our nose in where it didn’t belong, and the American people have paid the price ever since.
While the USA was spending it’s treasure and blood protecting the Euros, the Euros were building wealth and at the same time complaining about us.
Time for them to step up and handle things themselves. America can and should sit this one out.
Only the suckers trying to raise Jo jo’s ‘approval’ rating want to get involved in the Ukrainian WAG THE DOG fiasco.
Lord, what a mess. What to do? What to do?
NATO would have to break its own rules to attack Russia.
But any individual countries that want to declare war on Russia can do so and proceed with hostilities.
Let’s go Eur-randon!
The Ukes are really regretting their decision to give up nukes, and signing away their border security to US, UK and Britain in the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Security_Assurances
NATO is a defensive alliance within member States. Ukraine is not a member of NATO. That is so easy a 3rd grader could get it.
I don’t even get the whole “no fly zone” crappola. The meaning I understand from Iraq, was to keep other nations out of the air where you have air superiority. The “no fly zone” area may be the nation you are already engaged in hostilities with, who has lost the airspace, already, and now you simply blow them out of the sky, on sight.
I may be wrong in this understanding, but none of this applies to Ukraine.
If Putin had his planes in the air, I would think he could declare it a “no fly zone”, if he was worried about NATO.
WW1 was the most devastating war ever fought in the history of the world.
We suffer to this day of the effects of that war.
And France has a lot to be ashamed of by the treaties enacted as a result.
Only a Bidenista nutjob would wants to go to war against a nuclear power while led by Joe Biden.
NATO needs to have a war footing for INCREASED OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION.
Great decision...now give them B-BAM (Atacm MLRS) and keep up the Javelin/Stinger shipments. Share intel with them with our satellites. BUT DON’T get in shooting war with Russians (yet).
Looks like the Western plan was to pray Putin didn’t invade and then retaliate by using sanctions that will cripple our own economies.
Very interesting strategy and something something about Freedom. The insanity of this all will come in to focus next few months. The Ukrainian people deserved better from all parties involved.
Yes. A correct and very timely announced decision. Hundreds of thousands of teenaged young men in Europe and the U.S. just heaved a great sigh of relief.
Biden can’t realistically militarily act in the Ukraine against Russia out from under the umbrella or mandate of NATO. United Nations Security Council action is a non-starter, certainly. So that’s that, right? No troops on the ground, no air involvement.
Looking back that promise should have had a twenty-year time limitation with a right if first refusal for renewal.
Nukes are worth far more than 20 years. 200, more like.
Agree with you. Announcing that you wont get involved is tantamount to a green light.
They have a Global Warming War to fight ? LOL
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.