Above, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte (right) with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg
Will Porter – The Libertarian Institute June 15, 2022
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has called to equip Ukrainian forces with enough weapons and gear to defeat the Russian military, arguing that Kiev must deal the blows as “direct confrontation” between NATO and Moscow is still off the table.
Speaking to reporters after hosting a meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and several European leaders on Tuesday, Rutte said a Ukrainian victory may still be attainable, if only the US-led military bloc provides sufficient ‘lethal aid.’
“In terms of weaponry, we stand united here that it is crucial for Russia to lose the war,” he said, suggesting that Ukraine should serve as a conduit for Western arms in order to maximize pain inflicted on Moscow.
And as we cannot have a direct confrontation between NATO troops and Russia, what we need to do is make sure that Ukraine can fight that war, that it has access to all the necessary weaponry.
The comments followed similar remarks from Stoltenberg, who said the alliance is “stepping up” to supply more arms to Kiev and that “Ukraine should have more heavy weapons.” At an upcoming NATO summit in Madrid at the end of June, he said member states “will agree [to] a major strengthening of our posture,” though did not elaborate on what that might entail.
Earlier on Tuesday, a senior Pentagon official told CNN that Washington could announce new weapons shipments as early as this week, saying that could happen when 50 nations with the ‘Ukraine Contact Group’ meet in Brussels on Wednesday. While they did not give specifics on what arms would be provided, recent US transfers have included heavy artillery, multiple-launch rocket systems (MLRS), thousands of anti-tank missiles and several helicopters.
Since Russia’s invasion commenced in late February, the United States has provided tens of billions of dollars in the form of 11 separate aid packages to the Ukrainian government, flooding a chaotic battlefield with American weapons despite “almost zero” ability to track where they end up.
During an event on Monday, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks declared that Washington is ready to back Kiev for years to come, even suggesting that support could continue for up to two decades if needed.
“We’re trying to think through the kinds of both equipment but also the kind of longer term training and defense establishment efforts that they will need,” she said.
Though the US and its partners in the NATO bloc have stressed that backing Ukraine is a matter of upholding ‘democratic values’ under assault by a despotic Russian invader, officials from some member states have hinted at other motives. Western diplomats cited by the Washington Post in April noted that the alliance would rather see Ukrainians keep “fighting and dying” over “a peace that comes too early.” More recently, Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that some NATO countries “see the continuation of the war as weakening Russia” and do not want the fighting to end, a view which appears to be in line with Rutte’s statement on Tuesday.
Comment — June 16, 2022
Talk about tempting fate. The Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s comments epitomises the sort of blindness and complacency of so many western politicians. Whether knowingly or not, he’s paving the way for war with Russia; because at some point Moscow will realise that its problems in Ukraine don’t actuallly originate there.
Russia’s problems have their origins further West and here we have the Dutch prime minister openly admitting as much.
Nor is he alone.
Neo-Conservative mouthpiece the New York Times has declared that the West wants to use Ukraine “to bleed Russia” and it echoed another Neo-Conservative outlet, Foreign Policy, that announced this even before Russia had embarked on military operations against Ukraine.
Other MSM mouthpieces may deny it, but prominent and powerful insiders are openly saying as much.
“We are engaged in a conflict here. It’s a proxy war with Russia, whether we say so or not,” said Leon Panetta, the former CIA director and defense secretary under Barack Obama. (The Intercept)
Trouble is it’s not Russia that’s taking heavy casualties but ordinary Ukrainian soldiers. While warmongers like Mark Rutte want to fuel the fires of war, up to two hundred Ukrainian servicemen are being killed everyday, according to recent reports.
It’s difficult to say how long Kiev can sustain such casualties but at some point this war has the potential to escalate beyond Ukraine’s borders.
Do our ‘leaders’ grasp that the Ukrainian conflict has the potential to escalate uncontrollably? Or worse still, do they know this but are cynically playing along with a much more sinister game plan? Ed
Western hypocrisy is nauseating. The Uke regime is a fascist despotism.
The only democratic government the country has had was overthrwon by a US/UK coup d’etat. Oppositon media has been shut down and journalists imprisoned. Opposition parties have been banned, creating a one-party state. That’s what the west calls ‘democratic values’.
You can go all i that Russia knows.
The Jews hate White people, Russians are White people. If the Europeans are too weak to get Jews off their back, I side with Russia. Europe might get Holohoaxed out of existence: hard luck.
This shows the retarded thinking in the NWO.
Russia is not and will not be degraded by this SMO/war.
What the sheeple don’t seem to grasp is that Russia is ‘right now’, fighting for its sovereignty, its very independence. The Russians aren’t on some power mad jolly.
If NATO/NWO wants this to the bitter end, then they can have cake, and eat cake, because unless the US sits down and agrees terms, Russian terms, which grow by the day, then Russia, and Belarus will take the Baltic states.
Come on Amerika, get your grapes out and show us what you’ve got?
Dmitry Medvedev will likely replace Putin one day. Just listen to the fury in Medvedev’s voice. He’s much more jacked up for war than Putin, and Medvedev isn’t alone. When he says the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are coming, I think he has a point.
One of the most agile puppets in the Globalist bending game, aka Pinocchio Batavus (Mark Rukker, or wanker in English), is being overzealous in order to impress his bedroom Master Klaus, even if it means starting World War III, which surreptitiously is their ultimate goal anyway…lying hypocrites.
Since the US has been willing to arm Ukraine but not engage Russia directly – or as Mexico’s President Obrador puts it, “We’ll supply the weapons, you supply the dead” – the performance of the US military in Afghanistan and elsewhere shows the folly of downsizing your military and hoping your wars can be left to privateer armies and buying off opponents with fake fiat run off the presses like wallpaper.
I’m sure with regards to China more than Russia, the US tried to buy off enough of its entrepreneurs to skew Chinese government decisions in its favour, only to discover the Chinese government may allow some to become uber-rich but they must still toe the line and never the other way around. So the answer for the US is simple: all that money you were happy went to the rich – make them fight your wars.
and hopefully intoVirginia +Cheyenne
mountain ! f..ck you USZIOUK babylon !
@ ANONYMOUS
if any military uprising in UK would
have any chance they would have to
clean up bloodily with old traditional
british freemasonry, after them with
House Windsor + jews .
i see no chance for that as the british
hang on to much to their old traditions +
doubtful glory . with it they are doomed .
some powers (russia,china or arab world)
should/have to bring war on to american
soil they never had ! USA has meritted
hundred times war on its soil for all its
122 years warmongering in the world !
PISS OFF YANKEE ! and take your jews
with you .
‘Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.’
a blueprint…?
which ‘New Speaker’ will get ‘101’d’ first?…Which of the least credible is in fact the least credible..
because it’s all getting rather silly now isn’t it?….
I do hope they haven’t lost the ability to use the ‘Nukes’ they keep chunnering on about.. Now that would be disappointing after all this foul wind and vapour..
Because of course they lost all that Moon stuff didn’t they? including and not exclusively the ability to ahem…
repeat it…
@ Carl..
Medvedev is a ‘jew’ they are always ‘all jacked up’ for Goyim war… Don’t forget not too long ago he was the Western Liberal appeasement… and fell from Czar Rasputins ‘favour’…
Now he’s Adolph Hitler and Jo Stalin all rolled into one….
They can’t fill enough graves… any of these clowns…
A lot of Commies on this site Rixon, masquerading as ‘white nationalists’..
NATO Secretary General Jens Stolenburger & Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte ..
On what type of medication they are by saying ? “Ukrainian victory may still be attainable, if only the US-led military bloc provides sufficient ‘lethal aid.’
“In terms of weaponry, we stand united here that it is crucial for Russia to lose the war,” he said, suggesting that Ukraine should serve as a conduit for Western arms in order to maximize pain inflicted on Moscow.
IMHO they are like their bum buddy Zelensky, on Crack Coke laced with LSD ??
Rutte is a perfidius lier. He knows that the Ukraine government is a juoos party, i.e. the president, the PM and many ministers. Banderas & Co. are owned by them and, most important, guess who are the 25 thefts/oligarchs that fled to the little Satan that destroys the Middle East. The question is now what for are the Ukrainian Soldiers fighting for?
chesterton: maybe, but not all Jews are on the same page, in fact, some Jews in Israel are even in the same book or library.
@ Carl
Exactly… it’s best to keep an open mind… but not so open your brains fall out…
GREAT MOSCOW CALIPH HE UP TREE NO COME DOWN