Zelenskyy Says it's "Crazy" Ukraine CanÂ’t Strike Targets in Russia
1. ...“That is crazy question, why we can't answer and attack these, especially this person, this military base where from these guided bombs or missile came, targeted us, killed our children,” he said. “So, for me, that's not rhetoric. For me, it's real plan. … Now this is the plan for all our nation, and we are waiting from our allies, and I'm sure that our friends, allies will understand all this.”
Stoltenberg stated that under international law, Ukraine’s right of self-defense “includes also the right to strike legitimate military targets on the territory of the aggressor Russia.”
“Some allies have not imposed any restrictions at all,” he continued. “That varies a bit between allies, but allies have reduced the restrictions on the use of the weapons delivered to Ukraine, and this has enabled Ukraine to strike legitimate military targets on the territory of Russia.”
"It’s even more important since Russia opened a new front in Kharkiv," he said.
.....Finnish President Alexander Stubb said he fully supported Ukraine striking inside Russia.
“This is a traditional kinetic warfare where the aggressor is Russia. So, for us to try to take some kind of a moral high ground and say that they cannot use weapons X, Y and Z, is simply wrong,” he said. “Russia is bombing hospitals, children's hospitals, schools, apartment buildings, theaters. They have absolutely no limits to the type of warfare that they take. So, for us to put some kind of a brake on what Ukraine can and should use would simply be wrong. So, I say go for it.”....
Source Link: https://www.nationaldefensemagazine....gets-in-russia
2. Poster's Comment:
(a) Reuters reported that since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza in October and up to the end of June, the US had transferred at least 14,000 of the MK-84 2,000-pound bombs, 6,500 500-pound bombs, 3,000 Hellfire precision-guided air-to-ground missiles, 1,000 bunker-buster bombs, 2,600 air-dropped small-diameter bombs, and other munitions to Israel.
US weapons parts were used in Israeli attack on the United Nations-run al-Sardi school in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp on 6 June. In short, the US can be regarded as the "decisive enabler" of Israel's war in Gaza. Britain-based charity Oxfam has deemed the war on Gaza the deadliest conflict in the 21st century.
(b) The Ukrainian leader has criticized his US counterpart's restrictions of weapons to strike targets in Russia as crazy. Using an analogy, how can a boxer win the match if he is forbidden to attack or strike back at his opponent who keeps delivering deadly blows at him throughout the whole match? Using another analogy, a patient is sent screaming with severe headache to a hospital, but the mad doctor takes his own sweet examining his legs instead.
If the war in Ukraine continues indefinitely, it will be deadlier than the Gaza war, turning the whole land into a heap of rubble and decimating almost the entire population. One netizen claims in a social forum that Putin knows that the US isn’t gonna send its troops into Ukraine. Hence it seems there exists a tacit agreement for Russia to have a free hand in the Ukraine war. In this regard, the US can be considered as the "decisive collaborator" of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
(c) How to explain America's bizarre roles in the two deadly wars of the century? At the end of World War II, the US took the opportunity to use Hiroshima and Nagasaki as nuclear testing grounds on human beings. In my opinion, the US is now using Gaza and Ukraine as testing grounds on the impact of prolonged, deadly wars on human beings.
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