Ukraine happy for Russia to take the blame on destroyed warplanes

The really decisive front in this war is how fast American and other NATO weapons systems are sent to Ukraine, and that is determined by a process that seems to be derived largely from the old children’s game of Mother May I.

The NATO Enhanced Forward Presence Battle Group conducts an exercise in the Camp Ādaži training area in Latvia as part of Operation Reassurance, on Sept. 1, 2019. Taking responsibility for these strikes deep in Russian-controlled territory is not in Ukraine’s interest, so it’s happy for Russia to take the blame, writes Gwynne Dyer.DND photograph by Corporal Djalma Vuong-De Ramos

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

August 15, 2022

LONDON, U.K.—“This obviously does not happen because of a thrown butt,” said British Defence Minister Ben Wallace. But the Russian Ministry of Defence insisted that the explosions that destroyed at least eight warplanes at Saki Air Base in Russian-occupied Crimea on Aug. 9 were due to “a vio...

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