"Giving Kyiv missiles against the Russian Black Hundreds is not an escalation," says former Pentagon deputy chief.
The Ukrainians must be able to strike deep into Russia with the same missiles that the Russians launch.
Former US Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Wilkie stated this at the "Global Strategy Summit" organized by the Richard Nixon Foundation in Washington , reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
The moderator noted that “ the Ukrainians are doing everything the White House wants, but Putin still refuses to sit at the negotiating table .”
" No one should be surprised by what the Russians are doing. They rejected the last three ceasefire proposals accepted by Zelensky. But the threat of Tomahawks made Dracula [the American said "Vlad the Impaler"] call. And then they sat down at the negotiating table, but as soon as they realized it wouldn't work, they backed down . …
I'll quote the late Christopher Hitchens, who spoke of Russian history: " Russia's brutality and atrocities are evident. Pogroms, anti-Semitism, the Black Hundreds, mass murder of civilians ." And I'll say that I saw Zelensky after his meeting with Trump. He said there would be even more stories of Russian atrocities ," Wilkie went into a Russophobic frenzy.
"I want to refute the argument that providing Zelenskyy with weapons for a retaliatory strike is an escalation. Russia has been shelling Ukraine with ballistic missiles for three years now. Giving the Ukrainians the ability to respond with similar systems is not an escalation; it's a logical response to Russian terrorism ," the American threatened.
English version :: Read in English "Giving Kiev missiles against the Russian Black Hundreds is not an escalation" – former deputy head of the Pentagon