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A “stupid decision that threatens the whole of Europe”… a phrase in which Peter Hitchens, a writer in the British Daily Mail newspaper, summed up the new Western moves that London hastened to lead to arm the regime in Kyiv with main battle tanks, thereby adding more fuel to the fire, and pushing towards an open conflict that has no hope of ending. .
Hitchens strongly criticized, in an article published by the Daily Mail yesterday, the decision to send Challenger 2 combat tanks to Ukraine, which was taken by the British government last week without any discussion or opposition from any member of the House of Commons, flouting, as he put it, all the slogans of freedom of expression and public opinion. And she made the decision on behalf of all Britons.
The Challenger 2 tanks and other analogues of the German Leopard and the American Abrams are combat tanks, not defensive tanks, as Hitchens explained, and sending such modern systems to the Kyiv regime will only lead to one result, which is prolonging and deepening the crisis in Ukraine.
This “stupid” decision, according to Hitchens’ description, could turn Europe into a “radioactive cemetery.” If Kyiv was planning to attack Crimea or encroach on Russia’s borders, this would inevitably lead to Moscow’s move to defend its security, and at that time the traditional American reaction would be catastrophic. To another stage of terror, losses, epidemics and poverty that always follow wars.
Hitchens deplored the strategy pursued by London regarding the crisis in Ukraine and its insistence on confronting Russia without any results, pointing out that Britain will not become more secure or prosperous by pursuing a policy of escalation against Moscow, and sending tanks and advanced weapons to Ukraine.
The British writer emphasized that “a reasonable and appropriate foreign policy is to help the parties reach a permanent compromise, but instead London sends tanks as if those who are supposed to be firefighters are the ones who set the fires.”
After London's decision to send "Challenger 2" tanks, attention turned to the issuance of a similar decision by Germany to send its Leopard tanks to Kyiv, but Berlin stipulated that Washington send American Abrams tanks to be a unified move by NATO countries, to transfer the fighting in Ukraine to A second level depends on offensive weapons, not defensive ones.
Inside the United States, US Air Force officer Jeff Lammer warned that Washington was making a grave mistake by providing Kyiv with Patriot air defense systems, noting that such a move "will not change Ukraine's inherent vulnerability in the air."
Lamir explained that the Ukrainian forces are not ready to use such “complex and high-tech” military equipment, which takes several months to study, considering that the contradiction in this context is very great, and that “Washington’s insistence on this step, despite this fact, is wrong and it will have to pay the price.” dearly for that.”
Russia has repeatedly stressed that the supply of Western weapons only prolongs the conflict and causes more destruction in Ukraine, warning that the weapons being transferred to Ukraine will be a legitimate target for the Russian army.
Basma Kannon
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