If the US orders increased munitions production to meet Ukraine’s war effort, it will send advanced, cutting-edge weapons (Abrams tanks, Patriot missiles, HIMARS missile launchers) used on the front lines. Can the United States (or the United Kingdom, Germany, or Spain) be said to be actually at war, given the intelligence it uses to sink Russian ships or transmit satellite images of enemy troop movements? WhatWhat is the red line in practical terms? Thinking that a country is part of a war conflict? In addition, if Joe Biden is giving speeches in Kiev in defense of resistance and freedom, isn’t his participation already part of the conflict, no matter how defensive, to prevent an illegal and unjust invasion?
Diplomats and politicians, in public and private, as best they can”NATO is not at war”, “The European Union is not at war” and “Spain is sending only defensive weapons”. There is some kind of strategic concern for countries’ societies not to feel involved in the conflict. This makes it possible to reduce war fatigue and maintain sociological support for sending weapons and money to Ukraine. Nor do you want to give excuses for the Kremlin to use more powerful weapons, perhaps tactical nuclear weapons. But how far can you go? What is the limit at which this uncertainty can be sustained?
“Ultimately, the red line is to avoid direct confrontation between Western and Russian forces,” he says of this newspaper. Nick Whitney, International relations specialist at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). “NATO as an organization was extremely careful not to interfere himself for helping Ukraine. The coordination meetings held in Ramstein (Germany) under the presidency of the United States of America were the meetings of a group of Western countries, not NATO. As an organization, the European Union is technically more involved: the European Peace Fund and the European Union Education Mission have the EU label.
definition of war
The narrative that NATO is at war with Russia on Ukrainian soil most closely fits the Kremlin. Vladimir Putin justified the invasion in many ways, some contradicting each other: officially, a “special operation” was launched to protect the self-proclaimed Independent Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk after their accession to Russia and at his request. But at the same time, the Russian autocrat emphasizes that this is actually the case in every speech. A war to protect Russia from the West who wants to destroy it. For the rest, he doesn’t specify any specific “spy obviouss” beyond his alleged promise by the Alliance to Kiev that he will one day join the club. In his speech, NATO is nothing more than the armed wing of the West seeking to subdue them.
“Russia is being defeated by the Ukrainians, not by NATO. As embarrassing as this may be for some people”, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said. “NATO has not launched any ‘special military operations’ against Russia.”
“The West is not at war. “At the moment neither NATO nor EU countries are part of the war: helping an ally is not the same as declaring hostility.” SPANISH NEWSPAPERFrom the Prensa Ibérica group, sugar Kelshall, President of the Canadian Intelligence and Security Studies Association. “War and conflict between two states is an issue with a legal definition, there is no gray area. The ‘state of war’ must be declared legally. There are “proxy” wars where you fight but do not declare yourself a warrior.
In recent years, wars have not always been officially declared. In the United States, it is Congress that can declare war under the Constitution. But, made only 11 official statements, and although the country has since invaded Vietnam, Korea or Afghanistan, among other countries, none after 1945. In the latter case, he decided, with the support of the United Nations, a “special operation” not against a nation but against a terrorist group, Al Qaeda, but it resulted in de facto occupation and full control of the country.
Since the end of World War II, and with the advent of the United Nations and existing international law, official declarations of war have fallen out of use.
the story of the war
Analysts and commentators from Washington to Berlin and London to Madrid have seen the red line crossed in the shipment of heavy tanks to Ukraine (German Leopards, British Challengers and American Abrams), a step that completely plunged the West into conflict. With Russia.
British columnist Martin Kettle writes in The Guardian: “The disclosure of the tank shipments makes it clearer than ever that the West has a war against Russia for Ukraine’s independence.” “Ukrainian forces are not just intermediaries for the interests of the West. […] this would deny them the determination that the Ukrainians clearly have. AND The goals of the West are nothing but defense.: They do not intend to go beyond helping Ukraine liberate itself from the invaders”.
Something similar was thought of at the beginning of the war when it was learned that the United States had given the intelligence necessary to sink Russia’s flagship Moscow in the Black Sea. Giving secret and private information obtained by spies or satellites is one of the secret keys to Ukraine’s warlike resistance to the Russian coup. But nobody wants to talk in those terms. Shortly after the start of the war in Ukraine, the Spanish High Center for National Defense Studies held a conference in Madrid to discuss the objectives of the NATO summit. In a room filled with members of the Armed Forces, one general subtly pointed out that intelligence is Ukraine’s secret weapon against Russia.. He spoke with a half smile and almost in code because you can’t openly admit that the West is helping Ukraine in targeting even if it doesn’t pull the trigger.