NATO member countries and Israel have the weapons to enable Ukraine to impose a no-fly zone and stop genocide, which would create a significantly better and safer world. So why have they still not delivered these weapons to Ukraine?
Why is Germany ready to send its Patriot missile defense system to Poland, but not to Ukraine, when Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszczak has asked for it to be sent to Ukraine to ensure protection for both Poland and Ukraine?
Why is the Pentagon still not sending its Patriot missile defense systems to Ukraine, when US President Joe Biden declared eight months ago, on April 12, 2022, that Russia was committing genocide in Ukraine?
Why is Israel not delivering its Iron Dome missile defense system to Ukraine, while its enemy Iran is supplying Russia with attack drones and benefiting from real battlefield tests of this material in Ukraine, which could then be used against Israel?
Why are NATO member countries ready to allocate billions of dollars to deal with the consequences of Russia’s destruction of Ukrainian towns and villages, instead of getting to the root of the problem and helping the prevent such devastation with a no-fly zone at a much lower cost?
Why are Western leaders merely reacting to Vladimir Putin’s next dangerous move instead of imposing their priorities to ensure that the fundamental rights and freedoms enshrined in the UN Charter are respected for the well-being of all ?
Some still give the same lame answer that NATO does not want to get drawn into Russia’s unprovoked war against Ukraine, as if openly supplying certain types of lethal weapons to Ukraine, including US HIMARS and the German IRIS-T air defense system, as well as sanctioning Russia and freezing its assets around the world – which has already been done – did not magically drag NATO into this war.
However, supplying the most needed weapons, which would effectively allow Ukraine to impose a no-fly zone and stop genocide, would get NATO involved. This simply defies Cartesian logic.
Others continue to naively believe that a peace settlement can somehow be negotiated with an unwilling terrorist state, even though the German President, the architect of the “Steinmeier formula” for peace with Russia, had to concede on October 28, 2022, after his trip to Ukraine, that Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine “marked the final and bitter failure of years of political efforts, including including the [s]people”, and that a sham peace with Putin “would mean a regime of terror for many people in Ukraine [et] would leave them at the mercy of the arbitrary violence of their Russian occupiers,” also adding: “ [p]go again – a fictional peace […] would only increase Putin’s hunger. Moldova and Georgia, as well as our Baltic NATO partners, live in fear… An unjust peace is not a peace – it carries with it the seeds of new wars”.
The great threat, that of nuclear weapons
There remains the intermittent threat of Russia using nuclear weapons, which is understandably worrisome. However, NATO member countries have only one viable option for mitigating Russia’s nuclear threat – either to warn the Kremlin in clear terms that the consequences would be devastating for Russia and spell the end of the war. Russian army. Any other reaction would be perceived by the Kremlin as a sign of weakness and would encourage it to fully militarize its nuclear arsenal to blackmail NATO member countries on several key strategic issues, as the Kremlin did on December 17 2021, when he published his unacceptable drafts of US-Russian and NATO-Russian agreements on security guarantees.
Most military experts now agree that Ukraine will win this war. This is obviously in the interest of the member countries of NATO, because it will enhance security, stability and prosperity in the world. It is therefore incumbent on NATO member countries to cease their inexplicable and unjustifiable wavering and provide the most effective weapons to help hasten Ukraine’s victory and minimize avoidable human casualties and further material devastation.