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NATO Head Urges Lifting Restrictions On Kyiv Striking Targets In Russia
Radio Free Europe ^ | May 25, 2024

Posted on 05/26/2024 5:17:08 AM PDT by McGruff

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has said Ukraine should be allowed to use Western-supplied weapons in strikes against military targets inside Russia. In an interview with The Economist published on May 24, the NATO head called on members to “consider whether they should lift” their current restrictions, saying they make it “very hard” for Ukraine to defend itself.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Russia; Ukraine; War
KEYWORDS: escalation; killkillkillforpeace; mic; nato; ukraine; welfarewar; ww3; zeepersthrilled
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1 posted on 05/26/2024 5:17:08 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: McGruff

In other words, fight like you don’t want to win.

This strategy has not aged well since Truman.


2 posted on 05/26/2024 5:20:25 AM PDT by occamrzr06
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To: McGruff

"We NAZIs bring genocide to all Americans for their Memorial Day 2024".

3 posted on 05/26/2024 5:21:04 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Diogenesis

No Nazis there

Why do you perpetuate Russian propaganda


4 posted on 05/26/2024 5:25:37 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Hamascide is required in totality)
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To: McGruff
"...NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has said Ukraine should be allowed to use Western-supplied weapons in strikes against military targets inside Russia..."

Well, how about "...NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has said UkraineIsrael should be allowed to use Western-supplied weapons in strikes against military targets inside RussiaRafah..."

5 posted on 05/26/2024 5:27:18 AM PDT by budj (Combat vet, second of three generations.)
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To: budj

My thoughts exactly.


6 posted on 05/26/2024 5:37:51 AM PDT by Sertorius (A hayseed with no Greek and dam^ proud of it)
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To: McGruff

Sign of desperation. Escalation will follow resulting in even greater death and destruction in Ukraine in an unwinnable war. Time to end this ten year debacle.


7 posted on 05/26/2024 5:45:38 AM PDT by kabar
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To: bert

Germany is full of nazis, what are you smoking?


8 posted on 05/26/2024 5:47:49 AM PDT by armourenthusiast (I capitalize everything related to South)
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To: Diogenesis

“No Nazis there. Why do you perpetuate Russian propaganda”

I wonder if he thinks the Holocaust really happened.


9 posted on 05/26/2024 5:48:53 AM PDT by BobL
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To: bert
No Nazis there Why do you perpetuate Russian propaganda

I see two nazi's. I also see one posting here running cover for them.

10 posted on 05/26/2024 5:53:41 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: Diogenesis

I’m thinking that the next step for the Russians, should this open declaration of war be declared by the Neocons, is to re-start nuclear weapons testing, including above-ground. Going to fun to see how the US reacts to that, as nuclear weapons have a way of bringing Leftists back to their hippie roots. Who knows, maybe some of them here might change their minds when they start seeing clips of Mushroom Clouds that are not 60+ years old.

The other thing that will be fun to watch is how their hero, Biden, reacts to the testing, as Russia still has Siberia to test their weapons - but what will the US do, blow up some more Pacific islands? Interesting mess the Neocons got themselves into.


11 posted on 05/26/2024 5:54:32 AM PDT by BobL
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To: bert
Why do you perpetuate Russian propaganda

Because that's all they've got.

12 posted on 05/26/2024 5:54:47 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: McGruff

One of the worst handicaps our guys suffered under in Vietnam was the political decision to allow the NVA sanctuary in Laos and Cambodia.


13 posted on 05/26/2024 5:57:46 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: McGruff

ICJ needs to issue arrest warrants for Zelenskyy, Biden and Putin..


14 posted on 05/26/2024 6:10:49 AM PDT by Judge Bean
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To: bert; Diogenesis
"No Nazis there
Why do you perpetuate Russian propaganda"

Like always Bertie, it is you who lies and propagandize.

Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
Five years after the Maidan uprising, anti-Semitism and fascist-inflected ultranationalism are rampant.
....
Today, increasing reports of far-right violence, ultranationalism, and erosion of basic freedoms are giving the lie to the West's initial euphoria. There are neo-Nazi pogroms against the Roma, rampant attacks on feminists and LGBT groups, book bans, and state-sponsored glorification of Nazi collaborators.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/neo-nazis-far-right-ukraine/

15 posted on 05/26/2024 7:03:26 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: occamrzr06

fight like you don’t want to win. This strategy has not aged well since Truman.

During Korea, Truman had to contend with all the Soviet and Chinese sympathizers in the UN. Plans had to be OKed by the UN, and the plan was then relayed to China and the USSR.


16 posted on 05/26/2024 7:03:51 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: McGruff

Italy slams NATO chief’s idea to lift restrictions on Ukrainian strikes deep inside Russia

The Italian government has rejected NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s plea to lift restrictions on the use of Western weapons deep inside Russian territories.

“We will not send a single Italian soldier to Ukraine, and the military equipment that Italy sends should be used on the territory of Ukraine,” Tajani was quoted as saying by the Adnkronos news agency on Saturday.

He added that Italy “must always work for peace and lower the tone.” Matteo Salvini, Italy’s deputy prime minister and leader of the League party, echoed the same sentiment, insisting that no one was seeking a “prelude to World War III.”

“Italy is not at war with anyone, and while it was right to assist Ukraine militarily, lifting the ban on Kiev to strike military targets in Russia is out of the question. Similarly, I reiterate that Lega opposes sending even a single soldier to fight in Ukraine. We seek peace, not a prelude to a Third World War,” he stressed.


17 posted on 05/26/2024 7:24:28 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: BobL

Russia has stated that they have very low radiation yield tactical nuclear weapons that they will use against British, French and other EU belligerents stationed in Ukraine should strikes inside Russia continue.

Since that warning, the US and NATO Head have replaced the Brits and Frogs as vocal agitators of firing western munitions inside Russia.

The Duma has held discussions on the actual use in this conflict.

Russia sees this as an life or death situation. NATO is doubling down. Some have openly spoke in the media of NATO supplied weapons being used to destroy Russian defensive Nuclear triad razors. Command and Control bunkers, as a way to defeat Russia.

This gets back to why stupid Biden’s mouth spoke about deployment of US Missiles in Ukraine and within several weeks Russia started their Special Operation.

Many people say there are preagreed upon boundaries in this war. If those boundaries ever existed the Marxist leadership in the west has done what always leads to their failures, and that is making loopholes in legal constructs. NATO has lost its morale compass since Clinton, but more so with Obama running g Biden.

That NATO no longer is constraints from hitting Russian Over the Horizon NUuclecar defense radars is a dangerous case in point. Russia now has 11 instead of 12. However, US Missiles have attacked 6 of them recently.

If Russia is poked in the eye again, a wounded bear will lash our first diplomatically for the world’s population and then against the actual military positions... and as Russia warned the decision centers of the West in Europe.

So will there be a moment when Americans find out we are ready to have a nuclear war with Russia after they fire 40 tacos inside Ukraine killing almost all the US & EU belligerent in command centers and at their missile launch sites? Without an actual president... a functional mind, but rather a mean and nasty deminita patient with 26 year old woke advisors.... Biden’s handlers fail to understand the limits of Chicago political power on the World stage.

It is just a corrupt game for NATO, but if Russia happens to also hit Ukraine with 40 tacos, their actual EU target package for tactical and not strategic nukes is 400 on Europe so what happens if Russia hits a half dozen non nuclear NATO members with conventional supersonic weapons as a warning, since it is not a NATO active initiative ongoing g to bomb inside Russia. It simply retaliation for Russia to hit EU infrastructure. NATO thinks it can damage the nuclear defense system in Russia without consequences. I doubt Russia will hit inside the US, but everything we have in Europe may become a liability during the election.

I am sure all the missile sites run by the US, Frogs, and British will be destroyed, along with bunkers and training sites.

We are going to the brink of strategic nuclear war, at the tactical level.

The US would not allow Venezuela or Cuba to fire Missiles using Russian technicians at NORAD.

We might however get over a carrier group being targeted by Iranian, Hezbolla, Houtie and other terrorists firing Russian donated supersonic Missiles; or would we the US say it is an Act of War against the US by Russia... two can play such a dangerous game of proxy wars, but NATO is trying to defeat Russia in Russia so this is going g to spread. Hungry is already opting put of the Western war on Russia.


18 posted on 05/26/2024 7:52:30 AM PDT by Jumper
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To: bert
Too many FReepers falling for Russian propaganda.

Propagandists from the Kremlin are doing a good job if they are able to manipulate Americans into calling Ukrainians "Nazis".

19 posted on 05/26/2024 7:56:13 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: wildcard_redneck

Far right is BS. Leftists self imposed a ban on their own Nazi ilk for 75 years. The Nazis are merely just another Marxist political party. Nazis are not far right. They are as far to the left as a straight line goes, but lying Marxists would have you belive the Nazis exist not on a plane but at 361st degree of a circle.


20 posted on 05/26/2024 7:57:09 AM PDT by Jumper
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