Posted on 11/26/2024 8:17:47 AM PST by McGruff
A suggestion by a NATO chief that the alliance should target Russia's missile launch sites has been condemned by the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov.
Lavrov responded to remarks made by Admiral Rob Bauer, chairman of NATO's military committee, about how the alliance can deal with the threat posed by Russia.
During a question-and-answer session after his address at the European Policy Center in Brussels, Bauer said, "The idea was we are a defensive alliance, so we will only sit and wait until we are attacked, and then when we are attacked, we will be able to shoot down the 'arrows' that come to us," referring to a Russian strike.
He also said that when responding to any attack, it would be "smarter" to "attack the archer, that is...Russia—if Russia attacks us...
Lavrov said that Bauer had "bluntly stated" that "to achieve the goals of protecting and defending the member countries of the North Atlantic Alliance, it is necessary to preemptively strike at those targets in the Russian Federation that, in NATO's opinion, could pose a threat," according to Russian state news agency Tass.
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These folks should shut the pie hole
Captain Obvious arrives in Russia!
They want war. That is why they are talking.
Greatest movie ever
Neocons/Biden want war
So its Trump's (or more accurately, the American electorate that voted for Trump) fault?
That poofter can go play in traffic.
Easy when you know your folks won’t be the biggest contributer, troops or money.
Seems the mighty admiral and his chums are trying to finesse the appearance of "if" into a huge "perhaps."
This is actually sad, as the Dutch in WWII did some fine things as allies.
Just go home and stop invading your neighbors
In response to some of you...
Russia has been spewing about doing strikes and preemptive strikes on the West for three years now - Non Stop! With huge maps showing Russian nukes hitting America, UK and EU, countless of times on live Russian TV.
Were you all complaining about that these last three years?? No, you didn’t and that’s very telling and suspicious. Not reacting or denouncing our enemy when it’s menacing our cities and home land... is quite diabolical.
You are now so suddenly reacting because NATO finally start using the same tough-talk language as Russia has been using for the last three years against us... Unbelievable.
So Russia is accusing them of saying what they said?
“A suggestion by a NATO chief that the alliance should target Russia’s missile launch sites...”
Who elected him to be a voice for the people?
That kind of talk is deadly. These people are either fools or psychopaths.
The good old Dutch. More Nazi than the Germans. An odd people.
They did once we arrived. But they happily filled a Dutch SS division and were serious collaborators. It was mostly Dutch police that arrested their Jews.
That was my point.
We helped overthrew the Ukraine government. We threatened to allow Russian border countries into NATO. We took out the pipeline. What do you want Russia to do?
(Rob Bauer) “He also said that when responding to any attack, it would be “smarter” to “attack the archer, that is...Russia—if Russia attacks us...”
I think that’s how it normally works...
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