NATO’s most senior military officer believes the alliance has to continue arming Ukraine and stop allowing Russian President Vladimir Putin to deter such acts.
Adm. Rob Bauer, the chairman of the Military Committee of NATO and the military adviser to the secretary-general and the North Atlantic Council, acknowledged on Friday that the alliance has allowed Putin to “self-deter” the United States and the alliance from acting in Ukraine’s best interests “many, many times.”
“I think the time is over that we should allow Putin to self-deter us because that’s basically what has happened many, many times,” Bauer explained., traveled to France to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Allied forces’ D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944. Presidentalso recently announced a new policy reversal that allows Ukraine to use U.S. weapons to hit targets in Russia, though several restrictions still apply.
“It is the best thing to do. If you are attacked from a nation that is illegally attacking you, and they start a war, and you are defending yourself, you can do two things: You can wait until the missiles reach you and then try to kill the arrows, or you kill the archer, and the archer is, in many ways, in Russia,” Bauer said when asked about the risks of allowing the Ukrainians to hit targets in Russian territory.
“Again, in the law on armed conflicts, there’s no limits in terms of the range. So, militarily, again, if the target is deeper into Russia, then militarily, you want to strike that target.
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