Why US-UK-NATO want nuclear-capable F16 in Ukraine

 

In trying to make sense of this moment in the conflict, it seems to me that the US, this week, has led the Kiev inner-circle to execute, in the guise of a counter-offensive, a premeditated slaughter of thousands of their soldiers to create an inexorable demand for air-fighting power to match Russia’s air superiority (and that Western air-power will just happen to be equipped with tactical nuclear weapons).

I caught a segment on RT today, Paul Craig Roberts speaking about the possibility of F-16’s being sent to Ukraine. Impressed with the importance of his analysis, I made a quick transcript of his statement, included below (its a bit choppy in reading, but the gist comes through).  

The utter depravity of this Western ‘Russia-must-be defeated’ decision-making cabal and the utter inhumanity of their campaign to impress, on the public mind, an utter disregard for the ethnic Russian
populace of the region — it leaves any thinking person absolutely shocked and stunned.   

David Occhiuto 

NYC  

 

 Paul Craig Roberts, RT segment, 23 June 2023:

“Washington started this. American foreign policy, controlled by the neocons, is, stated very clearly, the principle goal of American foreign policy is: to prevent the rise of Russia, or any country, that  could serve as a constraint on US unilateralism; so, the US cares nothing about Ukraine, it is a weapon to be used against Russia; so, they will continue to use that weapon as long as its available; and that’s why the Russians should take sufficient action to close this conflict down, they have the power, they have the conventional power; why do they want another agreement that the West isn’t going to hold; we had the Minsk agreement, which Putin held to for eight years, while the Americans built up an army in Ukraine. The F-16’s, they will not be a game changer on the battlefield, but the ones that are coming first, according to the reports from two NATO countries, are F-16’s that have been modified to carry tactical nuclear weapons. Now, a Kremlin war planner has to say, why are they sending those if all they want to do is challenge air superiority; are they intending to use these planes with tactical nuclear weapons; the Kremlin cannot overlook this, it would be taking unacceptable risk; that fact about the planes, is a war-widening fact; the Kremlin has to say, hey, this could be used for tactical weapons against our troop formations; so they would have to take some action against the deployment of these planes; it’s not a question of shooting them down in the air, it’s a question of why are tactical nuclear-prepared airplanes being given to Ukraine; that is the question, it is a very war-widening development, and this could be dangerous."