Putin’s warning on the F-16’s

Until June 24 the combined air forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) are conducting their largest operation against Russia in the 74-year history of the alliance. The plan has been to disguise F-16 fighter jets as if they are piloted by Ukrainians, and pretend they are launched from Ukrainian territory.

In response, Russian artillery, missile and fighter-bomber forces have been disabling and destroying Ukrainian airfields, and every Ukrainian aircraft being flown from them.

Then on Friday, President Vladimir Putin dismissed the NATO pretence, warning that if an F-16 threatens to attack a Russian target, it would be “burned”, and so would the launch airbase and supporting aircraft – fuel tankers, electronic countermeasures, command-and-control, and decoys – no matter what NATO member-state flag they are flying, and on what territory they are based.

“The F-16 will also burn, there is no doubt,” Putin said in St. Petersburg on June 16. “But if they are located at air bases outside Ukraine, and used in combat operations, we will have to look at how to hit and where to hit those means that are used in combat operations against us. This is a serious danger of NATO’s further involvement in this armed conflict.” When the president and commander-in-chief announces “we will have to look at how to hit”, he means the General Staff have already assembled the operational intelligence and readied plans of attack with three minutes to launch; that is, against targets in Poland, Romania, Moldova, and possibly further west across the Czech and German borders.

In the president’s phrase “those means that are used in combat operations against us”, Putin also intends to identify airborne targets, manned and unmanned, over the Black, Baltic, and Barents Seas.

Never before has NATO’s collective defence proviso Article Five been explicitly challenged by the Kremlin. In practice, by describing the agreement of the NATO members that “an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all”, the NATO wording does no more than require each of the NATO members to take “forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary.” .

What is happening is that by aiming their display of NATO airpower at the Kremlin, US and German commanders in their Ramstein bunkers have provoked Putin to call their bluff: he is now aiming directly at the Poles, Romanians and Germans, telling them to “deem” whether war with Russia is “necessary”. “Well, the Poles,” added Putin, “okay, they have their own goals, they sleep and see the return of Western Ukraine. And, apparently, they are gradually coming to this.” In parallel, the US has escalated to nuclear weapons by flying two US Air Force (USAF) B-1B bombers from the UK Fairford airbase, refuelling in Germany, transiting Poland and Romania, to a point in the Black Sea off the Crimean coast and the Sevastopol naval base, where the aircraft transponders were turned off from public view.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Polish President Andrzej Duda have been also been trying to disguise Article Five by negotiating between themselves — they told the press last week — “what sort of security guarantees they would provide [the Ukraine] once the war ends… ‘Our support will last as long as it is needed’, Macron said. ‘We must ensure that Russia will not only not win this unfortunate campaign but also can never repeat it.’”

German Leopard tanks, US Bradley infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) destroyed on the battlefield on June 10; source,

The Financial Times was told to report the three officials are discussing how to provide the Ukraine with security guarantees less potent than NATO membership with its application of Article Five, but instead assurances “that are expected to include annual provisions of cutting-edge weaponry, Nato-standard training and intelligence-sharing…‘The question is between guarantees and assurances’ said one European diplomat involved in the talks. ‘We can’t promise them we will go to war for them, but we can give long-term pledges to keep them safe in other ways.’”

On the Ukrainian battlefield, however, the “cutting-edge” German, French and US weaponry has been defeated, and the Ukrainian and foreign men and means to replace them destroyed. The outcome which the Russians have called “de-militarization” of Ukrainian territory at the start of the Special Military Operation last year has now been defined by Putin to mean the accession of the Russian territories east of the Dnieper River, plus a “sanitary zone” from the river westward from Kiev to Lvov which will be deep enough to prevent attacks on the Russian east; and Polish conversion of the Galician region between Lvov and the Polish border.

Source: https://www.bitchute.com/video/JjxHCw5PP2s9/ For the full speech and question-and-answer session, see: (Russian); the English translation incomplete.

“As for demilitarization,” Putin said on Friday, “after all, look, soon Ukraine will stop using its own equipment at all, there is nothing left. Everything they fight on, and everything they use, is brought in from the outside, but you can’t win for so long. And our defense industry is being promoted from day to day. We have increased the output of military products 2.7 times over the past year, and the increase in the most popular samples is tenfold, and further growth is taking place. Enterprises work in two, three shifts, and some day and night. And this tells us that we have a very large margin of safety.”

The implication is that for the Russian war outcome to be checked or defeated before there is no Ukrainian army left on the battlefield, “security guarantees” and “assurances” from NATO will not be enough — Germany, France and Poland must fight Russia directly, activating Article Five thereby. Their bluff called in Friday’s ultimatum over the deployment of the F-16, “the serious danger of NATO’s further involvement in this armed conflict”, as Putin warned, is that Germany, France and Poland will also be defeated on the field, and have no “security guarantee” or “assurance” to rely on for themselves, let alone for the Ukraine.

In his Friday speech Putin warned that Ukrainian military operations are failing up and down the line of contact. “What is going on with this so-called counteroffensive? Not quite so: somewhere Ukrainian units manage to reach the first line, somewhere they fail – that’s not the question. The question is that they use so-called strategic reserves, which consist of several components. The first of them is designed to break through the defense, the second is to use troops to consolidate territories, move through the territory. They didn’t achieve their goals at any of the sites – that’s what’s important.”

“Indeed, their losses are very large, about even more than one in ten compared to the Russian army. This is a fact. On technology: every day there is an increase in the loss of this equipment, somewhere now, to date, 186 tanks have been lost by the Ukrainian army and 418 armored vehicles of various classes. I’m not talking about the personnel right now, it’s necessary for the Ministry of Defense to voice itself. But, I repeat, the most important thing is that there is no success in any of the areas. The enemy had no success, as reported by the military.”

What happens next on the battlefield? In the broadcast George Eliason introduces the evidence that, in desperation, the Ukrainian military will attempt to trigger a major nuclear explosion at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), causing radiation contamination of the surrounding area, as the Ukrainian destruction of the Kakhovka dam on June 6 attempted to use flood water to the same effect.

For the story of Ukrainian artillery and commando attacks on the Zaporozhye NPP, read this.

For more details on the Kakhovka dam attacks, click. The first segment of the broadcast concludes with breaking news from federal court in Boston, Massachusetts, where the grand jury indictment of Jack Teixeira in the Pentagon Papers case was unsealed and published on June 15. Click to read in full the 10-page document.

For the time being, the Bellingcat intelligence unit and the New York Times, which have been collaborating to convict Teixeira of espionage, have failed to see the dramatic shift in the US prosecutors’ case against the young US Air Force (USAF) national guardsman. According to the Times report, “the evidence presented in the 10-page indictment represents a distillation of the immense trove of secrets Airman Teixeira is accused of taking from computers at an intelligence unit at the Cape Cod air base — and sharing with online friends he was hoping to impress in chat groups on Discord, a social media platform popular with gamers. But it was not immediately clear how many of the vaguely described incidents that underlie the charges had been previously disclosed and which ones were being made public for the first time.”

In fact, the new court filing confirms the Justice Department has decided to downgrade the originally reported charges against Teixeira from espionage on behalf of a foreign state or organisation to “willful retention and transmission of national defense information”.………

How would we respond if Russia put military and missiles into Mexico?

We went to war over a telegram that merely suggested the possibility of the Mexicans joining the Germans in attacking us.

One of the terms of surrender would be that sadly, the constitution is no more.
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Astute observation. History shows exactly that. Even Vlad stated in the Ukie signed peace agreement last spring,( yes, the Ukie negotiation team signed an agreement- but the West over road it) his Constitution will be re-written to include neutrality, and demilitarization ,just two demands that the Ukie team signed.

The West has much blood on their hands, and most certainly are the bad guys.

You must not have lived during the Kennedy years and the Cuban missile crisis.
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The US was strong then, now never been weaker in mind, body and soul. Senile Joe would fold.

I think you are right but it is still THE OBAMA WAR, He started it in 2014, it was only paused because Hillary lost. As soon as Trump left office it was Game ON with OBAMA still pulling Bidens strings.

We’re in a heap of trouble and a Perfect Storm could be coming.

Exactly correct, as we near the end of the 'Calm of the Storm'.

I can recollect when Trump told us near the beginning of the 'Calm of the Storm'.

> There are no good guys in this stupid incident. <

You are correct. A pox on both sides. NATO recklessly provoked Russia by expanding eastward. And then Putin overreacted by invading a sovereign country. Resources are being drained, and innocents are dying every day.

In a way, we are seeing something like the First World War. Each side is bleeding the other side, for next to nothing. But wait. There is still an opportunity for someone to escalate things from WW I to WW III.

Oh, how I wish Trump were in the White House today. For all his bluster, Trump kept the peace.

Explain to us the Bay of Pigs.

When did that happen and who caused it?

Explain to us the Cuban Missile crisis and when did that happen and why?

We went to war4 because of another demented SOB potus that REALLY liked war and could not wait to get us into that war we had absolutely NOTHING to do with.

That war is the catalyst for ALL CONFLICTS since.

We have all been through this before on here.

Makes no difference to them.

I wonder what happened to the charges brought by the ICC against THE Ukraine for crimes against humanity...one of the reasons for this conflict.

Correct. I have absolutely no faith in them.

They must think they are immune to what’s coming.

The Poles might say “Hell with NATO” and they’ll send troops to Ukraine. The Baltics will join them.
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Poland might, the Baltics- never. I was in Lithuania during the Soviet pull out back in 91. Western cities ( Kaunas) rejoiced, eastern ( Vilnius) not so much.

The Lithuanian government talks big now with pledges of US money and support, but the Lithuanian people do NOT want war with Russia knowing they would be rolled up to Klaipeda in one day, they simply have no Army to speak of, and a third occupation by Russia scares the hell out of them.

They're in a bad neighborhood. The Russians will seek to annex the Baltics as soon as they get an opportunity to do so.

The real risk here is clear. If they launch operations against Russia from a country other than Ukraine that country risks attack and broadening the war.

Solution is simple, keep the attacks from originating in Ukraine.

BTW: I guess this steps backs Putin’s other threats of weapons used against him supplied by the west risk broadening the war. So at least now it’s clear. F16 are good as long as they are launched from Ukraine.

Do you even remember when MASSIVE Soviet weaponry was killing our guys in Vietnam and in Korea?

They GAVE the North Vietnamese Mig-21s, SAM 2 and 3s, every AK-47 they and the Viet Cong fired at Americans, Soviet rocket launchers, artillery, radar, and even ships and patrol boats. Massive killing of Americans, Australians, South Koreans and above all the innocents of South Vietnam, who had their nation robbed and people massacred by Communist ideology.

The millions of boat people happened because communism was so brutal that risking their lives on flimsy boats and giving up their homes and what little fortune they might have had was preferable to dying under tyranny. They weren’t Mexicans crossing the border for work.

Or are you too young?

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