RT.com – April 5, 2024
NATO nations can only forestall an inevitable loss to Russian forces in Ukraine by deploying their troops to the former Soviet republic, a former adviser to the US military has claimed.
“The arithmetic of this is inescapable: NATO countries will soon have to send soldiers to Ukraine, or else accept catastrophic defeat,” military strategist Edward Luttwak wrote in an oped published on Thursday by the British online media outlet UnHerd. “The British and French, along with the Nordic countries, are already quietly preparing to send troops – both small elite units and logistics and support personnel – who can remain far from the front.”
The conflict can’t be won without direct troop deployments because regardless of the quantity and quality of weapons sent to Kiev, Ukrainian forces are too outnumbered by the Russians, Luttwak argued. “This means that unless [Russian President Vladimir] Putin decides to end the war, Ukraine’s troops will be pushed back again and again, losing soldiers in the process who cannot be replaced.”
Luttwak’s comments follow weeks of battlefield advances by Russian forces in the Donbass region. Western leaders have insisted that they can ensure a Ukrainian victory by providing aid to Kiev, but French President Emmanuel Macron suggested in February that direct troop deployments by NATO members could not be ruled out.
European NATO members face a “momentous decision” because with US forces facing a growing threat of a potential Chinese attack on Taiwan, it will be up to them to provide the manpower that Ukraine needs, Luttwak said. “If Europe cannot provide enough troops, Russia will prevail on the battlefield, and even if diplomacy successfully intervenes to avoid a complete debacle, Russian military power will have victoriously returned to central Europe,” he added.
NATO-Russia relations have deteriorated so much amid the Ukraine crisis that the Western alliance is already in “direct confrontation” with Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday. Putin has warned that NATO would risk triggering a nuclear conflict if its members send troops to Ukraine.
Luttwak suggested that by providing support troops for such tasks as troop training and repairing damaged equipment, NATO nations could free up more Ukrainians to serve on the front lines. “These NATO soldiers might never see combat, but they don’t have to in order to help Ukraine make the most of its own scarce manpower,” he said.
The Romanian-born Luttwak, who was raised and educated largely in the UK, has advised the Pentagon, the US State Department, and the White House National Security Council, among other entities in Washington. A December 2015 profile of Luttwak by The Guardian billed him as “the Machiavelli of Maryland.” Now 81, he has reportedly advised clients ranging from the Dalai Lama to the prime minister of Kazakhstan.
Despite being a proponent of Western involvement in the conflict, Luttwak was put on a Ukrainian blacklist in 2022 for opining that Kiev cannot realistically hope to defeat Russia outright and depose Putin.
So the gist here, is that it’s a NATO war with Russia, and always has been. It was never proxy war.
Just as the BBC never admits to being wrong, NATO, never goes backwards. So very likely that NATO troops will enter UKraine in uniform.
If Biden quits, it’s Harris, so she’s good to send US forces into UKraine, and then it’s either Trump, another, a cancelled or delayed election, assuming nuclear WW3 hasn’t started.
I no longer read comments the following day, because Rixon doesn’t publish my comments. He clearly wants to stifle debate.
And after ZATO’s “catastrophic defeat”…
comes ZATO’s relegation to the Dustbin Of History… and the collapse of the Euro’Fcktard cuntrees that comprise it…. especially when Uncle Schlomo slinks away – with his UK yapping poodle under his arm – with a “Fare thee well…. SUCKERS!!!”
Not that anyone could have POSSIBLY foreseen such an outcome… apart from, say, a reasonably intelligent 5-year-old given 10 minutes – with a blank sheet of paper & a box of crayons – to analyse the situation back in March 2022… before that fat fckin twat Johnstein terminated any hope of a peace-deal… and put The West firmly on the Road To Ruin,,
What lies we tell when we have no other real support.
Who pays Luttwak? Follow the money and it leads to the US military-congressional-industrial complex. Their business model is simple. The more people they kill in war, the more arms they sell and more money they make. Also, expanding NATO increases arms purchases.
Disband NATO, bring US troops home, enough with the (vastly too expensive) warmongering!
it is always a pentagon jew war from CIA beginning .
and their thinktanks .
here we go, just the ticket for “whiteknight” and any others who dont fully grasp the intentions of those who follow “yahweh”
folks, this is some seriously illuminating stuff and given the recording date of 2021 and what they spoke of then which is happening now, its a serious eye opener
https://odysee.com/@KnowMoreNews:1/Rabbis-Reveal-Kabbalah-Secrets:7
” because with US forces facing a growing threat of a potential Chinese attack on Taiwan, it will be up to them to provide the manpower that Ukraine needs, Luttwak said.”
Blows his credibility with that one. China isn’t interested in attacking Taiwan. Without the US stirring the pot in Taiwan and the UK doing the same in Hong Kong, There would be no “threat” of anything. Putting US Marines on Taiwanese islands a mile off China’s coast demonstrates the insanity of US foreign policy meddling in the internal affairs of China. The Republic of China, based in Taiwan, has yet to renounce its claim as the legitimate government of all China. The People’s Republic of China only disagrees that the Republic of China being the legitimate government, not that Taiwan is China.
As for the Ukraine bit, I saw this coming, only a matter of time, with the first “Colour Revolution” in 2004 when the impossible “3rd round” or “re-run” of the Presidential Election took place and Yanukovych got screwed, and his power base in the East were not happy.
@ concerned citizen —
Edward Luttwak is a Jewish Neocon who volunteered to serve with Israel in 1967 and then came to the USA for a doctorate and his roommate was the odious Neocon Richard Perle.
Luttwak, it must be said in his favor, DOES oppose global free trade and said some sharp truths about letting migrants in. Possibly he remembers his childhood in white Britain (he is now in his eighties) and does not like the mess he’s been seeing.
Luttwak is well-trained in strategy but very loyal to Israel. Be warned.
Macron is a Rothschild creation. He wasn’t acting independently – he was told to say that. The EU will excalate, that’s for sure. EU militaries are minimal and underequipped, so like the Ukes, they can’t stand the losses. The Russians should grind them down as well. The danger is that once that EU attempt fails, the lunatics in Brussels and London will stage a false flag nuclear event to justify the use of nukes.