Important Takeaways:
- NATO will likely have to directly engage with Russian aggressive expansion if Moscow emerges victorious in the war against Ukraine, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said at a congressional hearing on Feb. 29.
- Austin stated, “Putin won’t stop with Ukraine; he will continue to push forward and attack the sovereign territory of his neighbors.”
- “If you are in the Baltics, you’re very concerned you might be next,” the secretary said.
- “They understand Putin and his capabilities. And frankly, if Ukraine falls, I genuinely believe NATO will be fighting Russia.”
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Important Takeaways:
- Dramatic moment NATO Top Guns intercept Russian warplanes over Baltic Sea… then head off MORE Putin aircraft north of Poland as Vladimir tests the West’s defense’s
- This is the dramatic moment NATO Top Guns intercept Russian warplanes over the Baltic Sea before heading off another Putin aircraft north of Poland.
- It came as the Russian president made a direct threat to nuke the West as he accused NATO and the US of ‘preparing to strike’ Russia in his annual address to the nation.
- NATO said that two French Mirage 2000-5s intercepted a Russian SU-30-M aircraft over the Baltic Sea yesterday.
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Important Takeaways:
- ‘Catastrophic scenario’ if NATO troops deploy to Ukraine – top Russian senator
- The possibility mulled by the French president could be taken as a declaration of war on Moscow, Konstantin Kosachev has said
- The potential deployment of NATO troops to Ukraine will lead to a “catastrophic scenario,” and could be interpreted as a “declaration of war” on Moscow, top Russian senator Konstantin Kosachev has said.
- The Vice Speaker of Russia’s upper chamber, the Federation Council, offered his take on remarks by French President Emmanuel Macron on the possibility of sending troops in a Telegram post on Tuesday. The approach exhibited by the French leader carries a risk of the situation devolving into a “catastrophic scenario,” Kosachev warned, stating that the move would not be tolerated by the Kremlin.
- “This is the line beyond which it’s no longer just NATO’s involvement in the war – this has been happening for a long time, but can be interpreted as the alliance entering direct hostilities, or even as a declaration of war,” Kosachev wrote.
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Important Takeaways:
- Putin makes direct threat to NUKE the West as he accuses NATO and the US of ‘preparing to strike’ Russia in his annual address to the nation – and warns of ‘the destruction of civilization’
- The Russian president, 71, said: ‘They, NATO and America, are active in other parts of the world, of course, and they continue to lie there, to deceive.
- ‘They are preparing to strike our territory and, using the best possible forces, the most effective forces to do so.
- Putin repeatedly lauded Russia’s vastly modernized nuclear arsenal in his speech and added as a warning to the West: ‘They have to understand that we also have weapons, weapons that can defeat them on their own territory.
- ‘Of course all this is very dangerous, because it could actually trigger the use of nuclear weapons. Do they not understand that?’
- The Russian despot also chillingly assured that ‘strategic nuclear forces are in a state of full readiness for guaranteed use’, but warned the use of nuclear weapons would equal the ‘destruction of civilization’.
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Important Takeaways:
- NATO confirms that Secretary General Stoltenberg recognizes Ukraine’s right to strike targets in Russia
- A NATO spokesman has confirmed to the Financial Times that NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg was indeed referring to Ukraine’s right to self-defense, including striking legitimate Russian military targets outside Ukraine.
- “Each ally decides for itself whether it has any reservations about what it supplies, and different allies have slightly different policies on this. But in general, we must remember what we are talking about. This is Russia’s aggressive war against Ukraine, which is a blatant violation of international law,” Stoltenberg said.
- “And according to international law, Ukraine has the right to self-defense. And it also includes strikes against legitimate military targets, Russian military targets outside of Ukraine. That’s international law, and of course, Ukraine has the right to do that to defend itself,” he added.
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Important Takeaways:
- Former President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, has once again bluntly told the people of the West that Russia WILL use nuclear weapons in a war with NATO because “We have no choice.”
- In a public posting on social media last night, Medvedev outlined the basic facts:
- Sunak, Scholz, Macron, Norwegen, Finnish, Polish, and other NATO bosses are harping on, “We must be ready for war against Russia.” Even though Russia has many times underscored that conflict with NATO and EU member states was not in the plans, the dangerous babbling is still going on.
- The reasons are obvious. It is necessary to distract voters to justify multibillion spending on the bothersome bandera Ukraine. Indeed, gigantic sums of money are being spent not on solving social tasks, but on war in a dying country alien to taxpayers, with the population that is scattered across Europe and is now terrorizing its people.
- This is why the heads of these states are emphasizing it on a daily basis: it is imperative to get ready for war against Russia and keep providing aid to Ukraine, which is why it is necessary to produce more tanks, missiles, drones and other weapons.
- But not all the European bosses are cynically lying to their citizens. If – God forbid! – such a war breaks out, it won’t go according to the Special Military Operation scenario. It won’t be fought in trenches using artillery, armored vehicles, drones and EW.
- NATO is a huge military bloc, the total population of the Alliance member states is about 1 billion people, and their combined military budget can get as high as $1.5 trillion.
- So, because our military capabilities are thus incomparable, we will simply be left with no choice. The response will be asymmetrical. To defend our country’s territorial integrity, ballistic and cruise missiles carrying special warheads will be put to use.
- It is based on our military doctrine documents and is well known to all. And this is exactly that very Apocalypse. The end to everything.
- This is why Western politicians must be telling the bitter truth to their voters, and stop taking them for brainless morons; to explain to them, what will really happen, and not to play the false mantra of getting ready for war against Russia over and over again.
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Important Takeaways:
- Putin’s threat to civilian airlines: Top secret Russian electronic weapon ‘based in Kaliningrad’ is jamming GPS technology on flights and ships across eastern flank of NATO, Western intelligence fears
- A top secret Russian electronic weapon allegedly based in Kaliningrad has been jamming GPS technology on flights and ships across the eastern flank of NATO, Western intelligence services fear.
- There has been disruption to the GPS guidance of air and sea traffic in Finland, the Baltic states and Poland, according to Estonia’s military chief.
- ‘What we have seen is a malfunctioning of GPS for ships and air traffic,’ General Martin Harem, commander of the Estonian Defense Forces, told the Telegraph.
- ‘And we really do not know if they [Russia] want to achieve something or just practice and test their equipment.’
- The suspected electronic weapon causing these disruptions is likely based in Russia’s military site in Kaliningrad, sitting between Lithuania and Poland, according to Western intelligence findings.
- Experts warned that if the same happens to ships, they could collide due to not being able to see each other on navigation systems.
- Gen Harem said: ‘Whatever they [Russia] do here, one aim is to degrade our stability, self-confidence, our trust to the West, unity and cohesion.’
- This comes as a shelling attack has today killed at least 28 people at a bakery in the Russian-occupied city of Lysychansk, Moscow-installed officials have said.
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Important Takeaways:
- Countdown to conflict with Putin: Norway’s defense chief becomes latest military figure to warn Europe has three years to prepare for war with Russia
- Norway’s defense chief has become the latest senior military figure to warn that Europe has a matter of years to prepare for war against Russia.
- In his dire warning, Eirik Kristoffersen said NATO countries have ‘two, maybe three’ years to get ready for an assault by Vladimir Putin’s forces.
- Last week, the NATO defense chiefs met in Brussels where several emphasized the importance of countries in Europe increasing their readiness for an attack.
- This came as secret plans were leaked revealing that Germany is preparing for Putin’s forces to attack NATO as early as 2025, and after a senior NATO general said the alliance was preparing for such a scenario to happen within 20 years.
- Speaking to NTB, Norway’s press agency, Kristoffersen pointed out that Moscow has built up its military stockpiles far quicker than expected.
- With his invasion in Ukraine at a stalemate, Putin has also switched his economy on to a war footing, meaning weapons factories are producing arms around the clock.
- What’s more, Putin’s allies in Iran and North Korea are also propping his forces up with arms, meaning Russia can build up its defense’s faster than previously thought.
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Important Takeaways:
- Russia ‘will not be afraid to use NUCLEAR weapons in a war with NATO because it believes the US wouldn’t dare respond’
- Russia’s willingness to deploy nuclear weapons in a potential conflict with NATO is growing because the Kremlin believes the US and its allies would not dare to respond, a think tank warned yesterday
- ‘Knowing that the West is casualty- and risk-averse, Russia may seek to use enough non-strategic nuclear weapons (NSNW) to inflict damage preventing its own defeat,’ the report by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) read.
- ‘[Russia knows] the US would be unwilling to cross the nuclear threshold in retaliation, and may terminate the conflict early.
- ‘The Russian perception of the lack of credible Western will to use nuclear weapons or to accept casualties in conflict further reinforces Russia’s aggressive NSNW thought and doctrine,’ it concluded.
- The report said the logic of using such a nuclear weapon would be to escalate a conflict in a controlled fashion, ‘either to prevent the US and NATO from engaging, or to coerce them into war termination on Russian terms’.
- NSNWs include all nuclear weapons with a range of up to 3,400 miles, starting with tactical arms designed for use on the battlefield – as opposed to longer-range strategic nuclear weapons that Russia or the US could use to strike each other’s homeland.
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Important Takeaways:
- Putin doesn’t scare me… I’m ready to fight: The young Swedes who say they are prepared to take up arms after minister sparked panic by insisting there ‘could be war’ in the country for the first time in 210 years
- Young Swedes are prepared to fight if needed following the country’s Civil Defense minister urging people to ‘prepare for war’.
- Sweden has not been involved in hostilities for 210 years but Carl-Oskar Bohlin said earlier this week the population should join volunteer defense groups.
- He told citizens to ask themselves ‘who are you if war comes?’ in a rousing speech which some have dismissed as scaremongering as the country prepares to join NATO.
- The country is expected to join NATO by the end of July and the government has pledged to meet the organization’s goal of 2 per cent GDP defense spending which is twice the usual amount.
- Sandwich shop worker Lukas Stahl, 25, from Sormland, said: ‘Personally, what the Minister said doesn’t worry me greatly, I’m not easily scared, and I can’t see any immediate threat.
- ‘At the same time, I agree that we should be prepared as a country and we don’t want to be caught sleeping but I’m not going to rush out and stock up on tinned food and batteries.
- ‘I am prepared to fight for my country if needed and although I wasn’t conscripted when I was younger, I am ready to do my bit.
- ‘In Sweden you can be called into service up until the age of 30 so I have five years left and I am more than willing to protect our people.
- ‘Putin doesn’t scare me and Ukraine is a different case from Sweden. I can’t see Russia attacking us now as they have too many other things to worry about.’
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