The Kremlin said Thursday that the US and NATO’s “direct involvement” in the war in Ukraine is “growing” as the Western powers are pledging to send tanks and other equipment.
“There have been repeated statements from the European capitals and from Washington that the sending of various weapons systems, including tanks, to Ukraine by no means signifies the involvement of these countries or the alliance in the hostilities in Ukraine,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
“We strongly disagree with this. Moscow perceives everything that both the alliance and the capitals I mentioned have been doing as direct involvement in the conflict. We see that it is growing,” Peskov added.
US and other Western officials have typically downplayed the idea that they were directly involved in the conflict, although German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said Berlin and its allies were “fighting a war against Russia.”
President Biden tried to downplay the provision of tanks by claiming they did not pose an “offensive threat” to Russia. But Russian officials clearly don’t see it that way and view the move as a major escalation.
Sergey Karaganov, a former advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin, told Al Jazeera that Russia could retaliate against NATO countries in response to the new aid. “By sending tanks, the NATO countries are becoming more openly involved in the war, and that makes them potential targets,” he said.
“Kremlin Says NATO’s ‘Direct Involvement’ in Ukraine War Is ‘Growing’ A former advisor to Putin says Russia could retaliate against NATO countries for sending tanks to Ukraine”
Absurd insane politicians begging to make their countries capital cities ground zero for megaton nukes.
Does everyone want to roll the dice and make it a World War?…
WWIII…………………………………………………………………………………
Dear Planet Earth, you’ve been great, it’s been wonderful.
We can’t stop this war if even we can’t even realize we started this war. Victoria Nuland and her neocon and neoliberal pals started this with the coup in 2014 that ousted the elected Russian leaning leader and replaced it with a NATO puppet. Then the “peace loving” Ukrainians bombed the *** out of their supposedly fellow citizens in the Donnas for 8 years before Russia finally intervened. Just this week Nuland was giving a speech in Congress about how proud we should be that we bombed the Russian pipeline. She is a pure zealot of the MIC.
I found this link to the Nuland story: https://www.rt.com/news/570572-nuland-celebrates-nord-stream-blast/
And I found a link to her full testimony here: https://www.foreign.senate.gov/hearings/countering-russian-aggression-ukraine-and-beyond
Her testimony begins at about 11 minutes in.
But the comment about Nord Stream is later, and I couldn’t handle listening to the whole thing. Western reports on the hearing have, naturally, omitted any mention of Nord Stream.
I still think the larger problem here is the possibility of escalation and what will be left of our beautiful planet when it is done.
We’re sending weapon systems, tanks, possibly planes in the future, but we’re not involved. Why make such an asinine statement. Russia knows better and so do all the players in the war.
I thoroughly agree with this assessment, and I believe that preemptive strikes against NATO weapons systems before they enter the theater are totally justifiable and sensible. If the Europeans really want to participate in this fantasy hatched by the Americans, they should be prepared to see it appear on their front doorsteps. IMO, this is the only way the Russians are going to be able to convince the comfortable Euros that they are participating in the US-hatched attempt to destroy Russia.
This ain’t a reality TV show, as the Ukrainian TV actor would have the Europeans believe. It’s an attempt to destroy Russia, hatched by a demented fool and his lackeys.
Perhaps Dimitri Medvedev should be running the war effort as Putin seems too slow to take the kind of action that needs to happen to put an end to the war. While a strong Russian action may indeed lead to escalation by the West but if the war isn’t brought to an end soon the odds of a global war increase greatly as the west and NATO being led by the U.S. has shown little regard of Russia’s response and see it as weakness which as Paul Craig Roberts has stated will inevitably lead to Nuclear War.
The Russians are such crybabies. There is not reason to complain if you are not going to do anything about it. One think Russia can do is destroy the roads and railways leading in and out of Poland, and the bridges over the Dnieper. Better yet, hit NATO bases in Poland. By complaining the Russians only make themselves look weak. NATO knows there will be no Russian response so they have nothing to fear. Russia needs someone brutal like Stalin, not the whiners currently in the Kremlin.
Well looks like Russia has gotten more than it bargained for. I thought the “feint to Kyiv” was brilliant. If it hadn’t had been a feint and was actually serious, Russia could have seized Kyiz grabbed Zelensky and maybe won the special military operation in a few days. Obviously that didn’t happen and the new reality is the West is going to supply enough aid to insure Russia never wins. So they can go home and lick their wounds or destroy the planet. The sooner they go home the more of a semblance of a military they will have left.
Yeah interesting “war” Russians are having. They can’t take Kiev and remove the terrorist puppet regime, and at the same time hold large military exercises with the Chinese.
But then again, stupidity and arrogance of your masters is what got you into this predicament.
The predicament that our military is untouched, and Russia’s is being cut up. Some say 100k killed that is quite a big number if true. The tricky bit happens in the event that Russia starts to win, we have to be able to walk away and not send advisors, and not send troops.
Suuure. In a world Captain America, Iron Man and Ghost of Kyav, Russia already lost all their military. heh
But seriously. There are probably more dead American mercs than Russian soldiers. Good-fucking-luck with that walking away thang! Mission creep is just going to escalate. Pentagon thugs have thrown everything but a kitchen sink at Russia and they continue to liberate towns in Ukraine. The imperial regime will send jets and next will be troops. The American grunts in Poland and Romania aren’t there for show. Your masters really, really want to get out and have Europeans fight but you are not getting out. It’s doomed if you do and doomed if you don’t. Run and you will lose your European vassals, your empire and any remaining reputation. Stay in and watch your empire deteriorate slowly as Russians grind down your military and reputation.
Personally, I’d prefer if Kremlin ended your terrorist empire quickly. It would save many innocent lives but it seems they and Chinese want watch you suffer.
These complaints are going to deaf ears Boris. Time to turn Ukraine into the new graveyard of Empires.