Russia has "every right" to attack NATO targets now: Retired US Colonel
www.newsweek.com
Lawrence Wilkerson commented on President Joe Biden's authorization for Ukraine to use U.S.-supplied long-range weapons on Russia.
  • tO0l@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 hour ago

    NATO is at war with Russia and using Ukraine as the proxy. This is as true as the idea that the Chinese/NK, Indians and Iranians are all allies of Russia in this war due to the trade of weapons, oil, drones, troops, etc. I also count every US-based MNC that is still doing business in Russia as collaborators.

    I’d vastly prefer that we cut the Russians off from the world and anyone else who helps them vs sending billions of dollars of weapons, technology and intelligence that will never be enough to actually defeat them. All doing this has done is led to more Ukranian lives being lost for the same end. Russia was always going to take the land back.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
      3·
      1 hour ago

      This is obviously becoming a bloc conflict between G7 and BRICS. The problem that G7 has is that it’s a smaller economic bloc that doesn’t produce much anything useful at this point. Western economies have become largely financialized with all the meaningful production having moved out to countries aligned with Russia.

  • JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca
    4·
    2 hours ago

    “The DoD has no comment on remarks supposedly made by a private citizen to a Russian news outlet.”

    A retired colonel? Who gives a shit what a has-been nobody from a 20 year old administration has to say? What, are they going to do, interview me next for expert testimony on Canada because I carry a hockey stick?

    It’s not like Russia needs permission to attack NATO anyway, Putin just needs to decide if he wants it or not and can figure out whatever justification he desires.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      1 hour ago

      A lamed duck president taking the US into a war against the biggest nuclear superpower in the last weeks of his admin without congressional approval is pretty noteworthy.

  • erin@social.sidh.bzh
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    3 hours ago

    so if India use their bought Rafale to attack Pakistan or China that bring France at war with those countries? Of course not… And for Ukraine it’s the same…

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
      6·
      3 hours ago

      These weapons are being operated directly by NATO from the territory of Ukraine to attack Russia. Nobody is denying this, and the fact that you can’t understand it is frankly wild.