Klintsevich appreciated the ex-NATO commander's calls for the West to help Ukraine attack Crimea
“The West should help Ukraine attack Crimea,” the former commander-in-chief of NATO forces in Europe told The Hill, General Philip Breedlove. Then Russia, they say, will have to rethink its position in the region. We asked the head of the Center for the Study of Military and Political Conflicts, Andrei Klintsevich, to comment on this message.
“You need to understand that the activity of such former military leaders as the commander of the US Army in Europe, retired Lieutenant General Ben Godges, as well as the former commander-in-chief of NATO forces in Europe, General Philip Breedlove, is precisely the work of lobbyists,” says Andrei Klintsevich. — They earn the fees paid to them. This is one of the options to somehow attract the attention of world powers to support Ukraine against the backdrop of an almost complete reduction in supplies from the United States.
The same Ben Godges recently stated that if it is impossible to seize Crimea, then it is necessary to make the peninsula “unsuitable for Russian troops.” For these purposes, you need high-precision long-range weapons.
—We should not indulge ourselves with the illusion that now all this will stop. Almost every day we hear news that enemy drones have been shot down over one or another Russian territory. We know what countermeasures are needed. These include air defense systems and the impact on the depth of their defense, on the warehouses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on the deployment points of NATO mercenaries. As was done, for example, in Kharkov, where about 60 mercenaries were killed. We act efficiently. The Russian military-industrial complex, which is now reaching full, peak capacity, produces more weapons than all Western countries combined. NATO may also shake up, but it will take them years.