By Thomas Röper*
(Opinion) Ukrainian President Zelensky is determined to pull Europe and NATO into his battle. This could also be comprehensible from his viewpoint as a result of his nation will lose the battle with out Western navy intervention.
Despite the large arms deliveries, Ukraine is shedding too many troopers and has hardly any navy successes to point out.
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To interact the West in a scorching battle with Russia, Zelensky is prepared to make use of any means. How lengthy will the West put up with this red-hot sport?
MISSILE CAME FROM UKRAINE
The undeniable fact that the missile that hit Poland and killed two folks got here from Ukraine is now additionally admitted by the West, though Poland first blamed Russia and even summoned the Russian ambassador in the course of the evening.
That Ukraine fired the missile was obvious virtually instantly. Photos of the missile’s stays confirmed that it was an S-300 anti-aircraft missile, proving that the Ukrainian military launched the missile.
The S-300 has too brief a variety of a most of 150 kilometers to be from the Russian military.
Moreover, the Russian Defense Ministry has repeatedly acknowledged (and reiterated this time) that it doesn’t assault targets nearer than 30 kilometers from the Ukrainian-Polish border. Russia maintains this protected distance to stop by accident hitting NATO territory.
UKRAINIAN LIES
That Ukrainian President Zelensky needs to pull NATO right into a battle towards Russia just isn’t new. The Ukrainian management is prepared to make use of any means to realize this aim.
Zelensky has typically lied, or had his folks lie, and freely invented anti-Russian horror tales.
The most well-known instance was the stories about mass rapes allegedly dedicated by Russian troopers, which, nonetheless, was fictitious and had solely the aim of breaking the preliminary resistance in nations of the West towards arms deliveries to Ukraine.
Ukrainian presidential adviser Arystovich even overtly stated:
“Ukraine’s national idea is to lie to itself and others as much as possible. Because if you tell the truth, everything collapses.”
ZELENSKY WANTS A BIG WAR
The missile that crashed in Poland was one other event for Zelensky to control.
As is usually the case, the incident got here on the “right” time for him as a result of it occurred proper earlier than the G20 summit.
This is why he may broadly tackle his accusations towards Russia in his video message to the G20 summit.
German ‘Der Spiegel’ outlet reported shortly after the missile crashed:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky laid it down: he declared that Russian missiles had hit Poland. Ukraine had warned for a very long time that Russian actions wouldn’t be restricted to Ukraine.
The Russian missile assault on NATO territory significantly escalated the state of affairs. There should be a response to this, he stated. Action is required.
The goal of those mendacity accusations towards Russia was additionally overtly acknowledged:
The Ukrainian authorities additionally known as for a united response towards Russia. A NATO summit with the participation of Ukraine ought to work out additional steps, recommended Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba.
He tied the incident to requires higher air protection and US F-15 and F-16 fighter jets for Kyiv. Today, safety for Ukraine’s skies means safety for NATO, Kuleba wrote on Twitter.
Zelensky additionally constructed the lie into his video tackle on the G20 summit, as ‘Der Spiegel’ reported:
In a video tackle shortly earlier than the top of the G20 assembly, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky once more blamed Russia for the influence.
He stated the missile strike was a message from Russia to the G20 summit. With Russia, the G20 nations additionally embody a terrorist state towards which Ukraine should defend itself.
That, he stated, was the “reality.” Zelensky had already accused Russia on Tuesday evening of firing the missile at Poland, inflicting a major escalation.
UKRAINIAN PROVOCATION?
Zelensky needed to know that it was his personal missile that hit Poland. After all, CNN reported:
The Ukrainian navy informed the US and its allies that it had tried to intercept a Russian missile within the time and neighborhood of the location of the Polish missile strike, a US official informed CNN.
It is unclear if this anti-aircraft missile is similar missile that hit Poland, however this info has been included into the continued US evaluation of the assault.
Nevertheless, Zelensky has unfold the lie that it was a Russian missile. What just isn’t being reported in Germany is the response from Hungary.
The head of the Hungarian prime minister’s workplace informed journalists:
Ukrainians are accountable as a result of the Ukrainian president acted irresponsibly and instantly blamed the Russians for these actions.
So, on the very least, one must ask whether or not Ukraine intentionally launched the missile towards Poland to make use of this for PR on the G20 and even to attract extra Western nations into the battle. But this query just isn’t even requested within the West.
WESTERN REACTIONS
The Western media don’t even ask the required questions however blame Russia anyway.
The line on methods to deflect from Ukrainian guilt has been given by NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg, who has acknowledged that Russia is responsible anyway as a result of the missile wouldn’t have been fired with out the “Russian war of aggression.”
The Polish authorities instantly blamed Russia.
Even the Russian ambassador to Poland was summoned in the course of the evening, and it was reported that Poland was excited about activating Article 4 of the NATO treaty.
The article offers for consultations amongst NATO nations if one among them feels that the integrity of its territory, political independence, or its personal safety is threatened.
In the meantime, Poland has modified its thoughts and not needs to activate Article 4.
The Polish ambassador to NATO stated that “Article 4 has its preconditions in terms of the political independence and territorial integrity” of a NATO nation.
None of those was current on this incident, he added.
The most relaxed response has come from representatives of the United States, who’ve been reluctant to apportion blame.
The US has little interest in a scorching battle with Russia, however they need to weaken Russia as a proxy.
In Poland, too, they in all probability knew instantly the place the missile had come from as a result of the navy had seen it on their radar.
This can be proven by the assertion of US President Biden, who stated that the missile’s trajectory speaks towards it coming from Russia.
The Polish authorities is bent on escalation however has apparently been known as off by Washington.
There isn’t any different technique to clarify the 180-degree flip that the Polish authorities has made inside 24 hours.
THE RUSSIAN REACTION
Maria Zakharova, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman recognized for her sharp tongue, wrote on Telegram about Zelensky and his machinations:
Zelensky is sitting in a bunker and can’t perceive why his model a couple of ‘Russian missile in Poland’ is denied even by the fiercest Russophobes.
The bunkered man can’t grasp that he’s been put on the head of a gang of thugs in Ukraine to do the soiled work however to not dictate to his curators what to do.
Zakharova additionally commented on Poland’s unusual conduct and its 180-degree activate Telegram:
The Polish president has known as the missile crash an “accident.”
Even yesterday, we heard the hysteria of Polish officers and politicians.
Won’t the Polish ministries that allowed themselves anti-Russian slanders and summoned Ambassador Andreyev at midnight apologize?”
* Thomas Röper, born in 1971, has held govt and supervisory board positions as an skilled on Eastern Europe in monetary providers firms in Eastern Europe and Russia. His media-critical work focuses on the (media) picture of Russia in Germany, criticism of Western media reporting basically, and the matters of (geo)politics and economics. He has lived in Russia for over 15 years and speaks fluent Russian. Today he lives in his adopted dwelling of St. Petersburg.
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