Fars News – May 29, 2023
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Click to enlarge
The US and its allies are “playing with fire” by doubling down on their support for Kiev amid the conflict with Moscow, including by planning to provide Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
“Of course, it’s an unacceptable escalation,” Lavrov stated regarding potential deliveries of American-made warplanes to Kiev in an interview with Russia 1 TV on Sunday.
“I think there are reasonable people in the West who understand this. But everything is being dictated by Washington, London, and their satellites inside the EU,”
According to the minister, it is Poland and the Baltic States – Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia – that are “executing on the ground the aim set by the US to weaken Russia, deliver it a strategic defeat”.
Some in the West “are already discussing ‘decolonization’ of Russia, meaning the dismembering of our country”, Lavrov said, warning that “this is playing with fire. There can be no doubts about that”.
“I hope reasonable people will step away from unconditional support for the neo-Nazi regime that the West itself created,” he added.
The foreign minister suggested that the words of the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, who acknowledged earlier this week that “in the near term”, Ukraine will not be able to recapture the territories it lost to Russia, were a “step forward to understanding the reality on the ground”.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been pressing his Western backers for F-16 warplanes for months, arguing they are crucial for defending Ukrainian airspace amid Russia’s missile campaign targeting military facilities and energy infrastructure.
At the G20 summit last week, US President Biden Joe Biden said that Washington would support efforts by the UK, the Netherlands, and other European countries to train Ukrainian pilots to fly the F-16. White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan stated at the event that the US “will work with our allies to determine when planes will be delivered, who will be delivering them, and how many”.
Several outlets reported that the jets will not be provided by the US, but that the Biden administration would instead allow its allies to transfer their F-16s to Kiev.
Moscow has repeatedly warned that deliveries of more sophisticated weapons to Ukraine by the US and its allies could cross its ‘red lines’, leading to a major spike in the hostilities. Russia has said that the provision of arms, intelligence sharing, and training to Kiev’s troops makes Western nations de facto parties to the conflict.
Blah Blah Blah red line red line Yawn!
F-16’s spend 95% of their life on the tarmac. Easy targets when not flying – which is almost always.
Swarms of loitering drones will soon make military aircraft in theater obsolete. Even a small drone with 1 kg of explosive steered into the air intake will completely destroy the aircraft.
Sergei Lavrov reminds America’s elitists that those two oceans either side of it are no longer something that guarantees their safety. Some people took umbrage at that threat but why? They’re constantly striking out at other, weaker nations, so it’s about time they heard a real threat from people who can deliver on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf6-gzeOjms
Lavrov can blather on all he likes. Does not mean a thing if its not backed up with Action. The “West” he talks about watches and continues to incrementally up the ante. Russia must crush their enemy. Nothing else will do. The sooner they realize that the better.
Criminally corrupt illegitimate PED0 scumbag Joe Biden is H0M0BAMA’s third term and both should be executed for starting ww3 by blowing up Russia’s Nordstrream pipeline and more. Don’t leave out commie Valerie Jarrett, Pansy Graham and others pushing this. They are a threat to all in this world
These Russkies need to shit..or get off the Lavrov…
Last year, I asked my Normie brother why he would be supporting the “Nazis” of Ukraine, and he said something about underdogs, but his tone of voice showed he was completely aware that this was rubbish and he was sad to be doing the wrong thing
thats a very good russian response to western
perverted satanical WEF of Klaus Schwab .
this is russian shisma ! they founded finaly their :
ST PETERSBURG INTERNATIONAL
ECONOMICAL FORUM
Its just piece meal disarmament of the West. Okay, everybody, feed your weapon systems in here, only a little at a time, please! Did anybody place an order for more F-16’s to replace those? What about the Leopard tanks from Germany? How about the Patriot systems from the U.S.? Even if they did order more hardware it’ll be years before it arrives.