Russian frigate fires aTsarkon hypersonic missile.
Andrew Meldrum – Associated Press Jan 23, 2023
The speaker of Russia’s parliament warned that countries supplying Ukraine with more powerful weapons risked their own destruction.
The message followed Ukraine’s supporters pledging billions of pounds in military aid to the country on Friday, including armoured vehicles, air defence systems and other equipment, but not including the battle tanks Kyiv had requested.
State Duma chairman Vyacheslav Volodin said: “Supplies of offensive weapons to the Kyiv regime would lead to a global catastrophe.”
“If Washington and Nato supply weapons that would be used for striking peaceful cities and making attempts to seize our territory as they threaten to do, it would trigger a retaliation with more powerful weapons.”
The commitments made on Friday were overshadowed by defence leaders failing at an international meeting in Ramstein, Germany, to agree on Ukraine’s urgent request for German-made Leopard 2 battle tanks.
Germany is one of the main donors of weapons to Ukraine, and it ordered a review of its Leopard 2 stocks in preparation for a possible green light.
Nonetheless, the government in Berlin has shown caution at each step of increasing its commitments to Ukraine, a hesitancy seen as rooted in its history and political culture.
Meanwhile, French president Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday that he did not rule out sending Leclerc battle tanks to Ukraine and had asked his defence minister to “work on” the idea.
Mr Macron spoke during a during a news conference in Paris with German chancellor Olaf Scholz as their countries commemorated the 60th anniversary of their post-Second World War friendship treaty. In a joint declaration, France and Germany committed to their “unwavering support” for Ukraine.
France would make its tank decision based on three criteria, Mr Macron said: that sharing the equipment did not lead to an escalation of the conflict, that it would provide efficient and workable help when training time was taken into account, and that it would not weaken France’s own military.
Mr Scholz did not respond when asked about the Leopard 2 tanks on Sunday, but stressed that his country had already made sizable military contributions to Ukraine.
“The US is doing a lot, Germany is doing a lot too,” he said. “We have constantly expanded our deliveries with very effective weapons that are already available today. And we have always co-ordinated all these decisions closely with our important allies and friends.”
Germany’s tentativeness has drawn heavy criticism, particularly from Poland and the Baltic states, countries on Nato’s eastern flank controlled by Moscow in the past and which feel especially threatened by Russia’s renewed territorial ambitions.
I would think the belligerence of the US is what urges a lot of these arms supplies, and the people running these countries must weigh up the damage their ally the US might do to them if they don’t join the war on Russia, against what Russia might do to them if they do join. Germany’s ruling class meekly accepted the US-driven destruction of their cheap and reliable gas supplies from Russia, but their reluctance to supply tanks may now be measured against what Russia might do to Germany if it goes deeper into this war.
As the mass murderer John Bolton proved when he told that UN delegate he knows where his kids live in New York, the US willingly threatens the lives of its allies and has most certainly murdered several, and so when an individual has the backbone to tell them “No” they will threaten his wife and kids.
There are no Jews, because Germany gassed them all to death in the shower, but it’s what they would have wanted
The Israel Overlords desire the prowhite Slavo-Germanic masses of Ukraine decimated/exterminated. So they setup up the various phony pretexts & disinfo (NATO encroachment/innocent Commies being killed in Donbass etc) for this war & directed Judeo-Communist Jutin & his Slavo-Mongol military to invade & commence the displacement/eradication of Aryans to progress global Whiteocide. That’s all its really about. Now you know.
Aleister–we can look at the Russians ourselves and decide what Race they are, and you meant “set up”, not setup, which is a noun, meaning “arrangement” or “trick”
This Russian supersonic missile is not Tsarcon at all, but Tsirkon – the Russian word for Zircon/Zirconium.
The traitorous governments of the “west” are gradually disarming themselves by feeding small chunks of weapons to the Russians which they can easily destroy. Thus when the war increases its scope to include those nations, their people will not be able to defend themselves.
warzaw, berlin, ramstein, spangdahlem, bruxeles
paris, london city, new york, washington dc,
cheyenne mountain etc etc .
@ POISONEDWATER
western armies anyway dont serve their people
since they are always mislead .
give everybody a gun we even dont need police
or corrupt politicians or judges . state is evil !
@ GERMAN MILITARY + POLICE !
you as only weapons permited have the obligatory
duty to take out the whole german government
cowardly under USA extortion to participate in
the USA constructed war chess game . 10-100
on your list can spare millions of coming victims .
Good! Do it Vlad. All you have to do is to take out every Western capital to solve all of our problems.