Tonight something important happened: at least three Ilyushin Il-76 of the Ukrainian armed forces reached Poland. For those unfamiliar with this aircraft, it is a strategic transport aircraft designed to move considerable quantities of goods, troops and vehicles over large distances.
We do not believe, the reader will pass the joke, that they went there early to buy hot croissants in the morning. There are rumors, which we are still verifying, about the movement of a large part of the Kiev Air Force to civilian and military airports located in the West, dangerously close to the NATO border.
We do not believe that the Polish government - let alone the American one - consider the Il-76 flights and, if true, the deployment of the best of Ukrainian air defense on its borders as violations: quite the opposite, beyond the facade declarations of non-intervention and the fact that the Ukrainians have to defend their independence on their own, it is a fact that the massive supply of FGM-148 Javelins and FIM-92 systems Stinger, which occurred under the eyes of all in recent weeks is causing considerable damage to the Russian attackers. Hence, it is not surprising that she can continue, perhaps even strengthened.
Here, then, that the words spoken by President Putin on the night of February 24 come to mind:
For our country it is a question of life or death, a question of our historical future as a nation… I would now like to say something very important for those who might be tempted to interfere in these developments from the outside. No matter who tries to hinder us or even more so to create threats to our country and our people, he must know that Russia will respond immediately and the consequences will be like you have never seen in all your history.
Ladies and gentlemen, Poland - not alone and not on its own initiative alone - reacted earlier and better than others, with concrete support, to the imminent threat. Let's not hide behind a finger by letting the Russian crocodile devour the countries of Eastern Europe, the Baltic and the Caucasus one after the other, in the hope of being its last prey and perhaps in the meantime to provide it with digestives too: in front to Russia's aggression, at this time NATO, that is, our country's only serious deterrence against external aggression, also lacks significant air and missile defenses for a modern air war that, as in Ukraine, begins by hitting significant infrastructure such as airports, roads and railways.
Just to protect the large US airbase of Ramstein in southwestern Germany, it would take an entire battalion of missiles. Patriot, but we only have one battalion Patriot throughout Europe. Word of Benjamin Hodges, the former commander of the American forces in Europe, now al Center for European Policy Analysis.
If you think that Moscow does not intend to pass into practice from threats, even veiled ones, and from ideological speeches, either you are very stupid or you are in bad faith: there is nothing that Putin, as an Austrian painter at the time, wrote and said that then did not translate into practice. If you reread the references of the Russian leader's speeches of 2022, you will understand that soon, very soon, it could be the turn of the Baltic-Scandinavian area, Georgia, Bosnia, Kosovo and Albania, the latter three accused several times for providing fighters to the Ukrainian cause. Russia is already keeping its boots in Libya, from which one day it could block traffic in the central Mediterranean, and tried in 2016 to organize a coup in Montenegro, to do the same in the Adriatic and the Balkans.
It is likely that in the coming weeks we will be hit by devastating cyber attacks organized in that country. With what will we defend our interests and our sovereignty? With good intentions and the ability to mediate?
Wake: February 24, 2022 must be marked on calendars as September 11, 2001 or August 28, 1914, a date in which a paradigm was broken and probably rekindled the European civil war of 1914-1989. In this case, it is that of the wars of aggression, invasion and conquest, waged in Europe. But even here, Russian propaganda will have a good game, if we do not intervene in censoring it, in convincing the beautiful souls that "after all, this is what NATO did in Bosnia, Serbia and Iraq".
I'll tell you again: wakes up! It is obvious that in international relations everyone has to behave like sons of bitches. But everyone must defend his cause: however filthy and inconsistent this may seem, it is OUR cause.
