{"id":1502236,"date":"2024-11-14T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1502236"},"modified":"2024-11-14T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T12:00:00","slug":"russian-nuclear-weapons-are-keeping-nato-troops-out-of-ukraine-top-admiral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/russian-nuclear-weapons-are-keeping-nato-troops-out-of-ukraine-top-admiral\/1502236\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Nuclear Weapons Are Keeping NATO Troops Out Of Ukraine: Top Admiral"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russian Nuclear Weapons Are Keeping NATO Troops Out Of Ukraine: Top Admiral<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Kyle Anzalone via The Libertarian Institute,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

A top NATO military official\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0that NATO forces would have deployed to Ukraine to drive Russian soldiers from the country if Russia did not have nuclear weapons<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Chair of the NATO Military Committee, Dutch Admiral Rob Bauer, explained to the International Institute for Strategic Studies\u2019 Prague Defense Summit in the Czech Republic that Russia\u2019s nuclear weapons are deterring a NATO deployment to Ukraine.<\/p>\n

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“I am absolutely sure if the Russians did not have nuclear weapons, we would have been in Ukraine, kicking them out,”<\/strong> he stated.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bauer said the challenge for the West is finding where Russia\u2019s redlines on nuclear use are, noting that Washington mistakenly miscalculated that sending tanks and F-16s to Ukraine were the Kremlin\u2019s redlines.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Admiral Bauer was discussing the difference between the Ukraine conflict and other NATO wars such as the Afghanistan occupation. He stated the main difference between Moscow and Kabul is Russia\u2019s nuclear stockpile.<\/p>\n

In Afghanistan, American and NATO forces quickly forced the Taliban from Kabul in 2001. Then, the Western alliance engaged in a two-decade nation-building project while the Taliban fought using insurgent tactics.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The top NATO official went on to say the Afghan War was not of strategic importance. “Afghanistan was never of strategic importance. If we\u2019re really honest Afghanistan was not of strategic importance.”<\/p>\n

He continued, “We spent 20 years there and we did a lot of things and people lost their lives but if you ask the question, \u2018was it of strategic importance?\u2019 In Afghanistan, the answer is no.”<\/p>\n

Bauer argued that Ukraine is strategically important to NATO because the bloc is defending the “rules-based international order.”<\/strong> While the alliance has denounced Moscow for invading Ukraine, it has been silent as its core member has lavished Israel with arms as it conducts a genocide in Gaza and invades Lebanon.<\/p>\n

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Watch Adm. Rob Bauer’s full remarks below in “Sustaining the Long War: Money, Manpower and Public Support”:<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nThu, 11\/14\/2024 – 02:00<\/span><\/p>\n

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