Adding to the long list of things NATO has announced at its two-day summit intended to spite Russia, the alliance has unveiled a plan to create a new trust fund for significant military aid to the Ukrainian military. Officials insist that so far there won’t be any funding on arms themselves, but simply on non-lethal aid intended to shift the civil war more in their favor.
Ukrainian Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak was critical of the announcement, however, saying Ukraine vitally needs “lethal weapons” to prepare for a potential war with Russia, which Ukrainian officials continue to insist is imminent.
Several NATO nations have pushed to send arms directly to the Ukrainian military, though there has been no alliance-wide decision to do so. Canadian officials claimed to have recently taken an inventory of their weapons to see what Ukraine could use, but decided they didn’t have any weapons that would really change the war.
Even non-lethal aid is controversial right now, because there remains a ceasefire in Ukraine and a hope for a political settlement of the eastern civil war. There is considerable concern that if NATO starts throwing too much additional gear at the Poroshenko government it will convince them to abandon the ceasefire once again and try for a military victory.
Ukraine must first find enough people willing to wield the arms.
NATO has effectively been hijacked by the wackos. They won't be content until they actually start the war they're supposedly afraid of and will surely be surprised when the US is late in coming to their aid because it will all be over before our dysfunctional Congress will act.
This seems to be the latest version of this blogger`s "the Ukrainians will lose everything if they don`t let Putin win" argument. What they won`t lose is their honour and their patriotic pride. That`s typically European viewpoint and it`s in the name of much the same sentiments that Putin is trying to restore Russian colonial rule in Ukraine. Poland was left in the lurch in 1939 and it bounced back. If the US abandons Ukraine, it discredits NATO and thereby itself as Israel`s protector. The israel Lobby doesn`t care a whit about Ukraine. It does care about Israel. Thst seems to be slowly happening now.
"Poland was left in the lurch in 1939"
Only if by "left in the lurch" you mean "France and the United Kingdom went to war for Poland in 1939."
One wonders among whom is the "considerable concern". Putin`s US supporters, one assumes. Putin has so totally cornered himself that all he can do is bluff and bluster. As long as he does that, NATO, and everybody else, can see that he`s defeated. So they just push him a little bit further. Classic military tactics.
I believe it is long past time for the Allies to not only train but to also arm the Ukrainian Army.
As time has passed I have begun to suspect that having intimidated the Russians into holding back the Allies are trying to bring the training of the Ukrainian Army up to standard while not giving the Russians an excuse to launch an invasion until it is too late.
You are all senslesly ignorant cunts. Do you really want to die in a nuclear war?
I'm sure you are trying to make a point about the actions being taken by the various sovereign authorities involved in this conflict, I'm just not sure what it is.
You fear nuclear war and therefore…what?