Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Philip Breedlove says the West fears the possibility of Russia using nuclear weapons prevented To provide stronger support to Ukraine. The American general said this on a television broadcast. A B C.
“The West has built a bunker for Putin”
According to him, the West guarantees Russia’s security by prohibiting Ukraine from using NATO weapons to attack the Russian Federation. Breedlove said that the United States “succumbed to Vladimir Putin’s war of words”.
“Mr. Putin’s army took him to the ground. But the war of words, the war of intimidation – or, as we put it in military terms, the war of containment – is at work.
We fear Ukraine’s victory in the West. Because Putin threatens us again and again with what we told him at the beginning of this war that we feared. We fear nuclear expansion and the spread of this war across Europe.
And what does it reproduce for us almost every day? Someone of high rank in Russia says almost four or five times a week, if this [победа Украины] happens, then [будет применено] nuclear weapons – “if we lose, [будет использовано] nuclear weapons,” Breedlove explained.
In practice, he says, this means that the West is putting Ukraine in a difficult position.
“We give enough to Ukraine so that it does not fail on the battlefield. But I think – it becomes clear from what we have seen, although not officially stated – that we are not giving Ukraine what it needs to win,” he says.
The channel states that after a major Pentagon intelligence leak, Kiev kept its counterattack plans secret.
General Breedlove believes that such a strategy could mean “cutting down Crimea” as a springboard for Russian attacks.
“I hope Ukraine uses its capabilities to cut the land bridge to Crimea, regain the water supply to Crimea, cut the bridge over the Kerch Strait, and then endanger the whole of Crimea – attack, but with well-intentioned long-range fire, possible across the continent. go as far south as possible, and then bomb the Crimea and endanger it, ”the source of the TV company concluded.
The previous day, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken at a joint press conference with British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly declarationUkraine receives everything it needs to succeed from Western countries counterattack weaponry.
“They have everything in all these areas to continue to be successful,” Blinken said.
“We are ready for any kind of development”
Recall that in December last year, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the threat of nuclear war is growing. However, according to him, Russia does not first consider using weapons of mass destruction.
“Russia will not be valid under any circumstances. [ядерное оружие] says first.
announce the start partial mobilization On September 21, Putin noted that “Russia has various means of destruction, and for individual components – more modern than those of NATO countries.”
“When the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, we will certainly use all the means at our disposal to protect Russia and our people. This is not a bluff,” said the Russian leader.
At the end of February 2022, Putin ordered the deterrence forces to be placed in a special combat alert regime, and in his video message the day the NMD began, he warned outside powers not to try to “interfere, let alone pose a threat to our territory.” country.”
Russia’s reaction will be immediate and will lead you to results you have never experienced in your history.
We are ready for any event development. All necessary decisions have been taken in this regard. I hope I will be heard, ”the President of the Russian Federation concluded.