Russia has things back to front here.
Sending heavy weapons and other arms to Ukraine is dangerous for European security, the Kremlin has warned Western nations.
Sure, and if I set fire to a neighbor’s house it’s dangerous for the neighbor to summon the fire trucks.
What’s really dangerous for European security is this whole thing of Putin trying to smash Ukraine back into being a branch of Mother Russia. You broke it you pay for it.
Spokesman Dmitry Peskov was responding to a speech by UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss urging Kyiv’s allies to “ramp up” military production to help Ukraine.
Western allies have maintained their support does not amount to a military confrontation between Moscow and Nato.
But Peskov told reporters: “The tendency to pump weapons, including heavy weapons into Ukraine, these are the actions that threaten the security of the continent, provoke instability.”
Like the old joke about a sign (probably apocryphal but I don’t know) at a French zoo that said this animal is wicked, if attacked it defends itself*. It’s not the “tendency” to help Ukraine defend itself that provokes instability, it’s the unprovoked attack on Ukraine that provokes instability. You the provoker, Vlad, not that other guy.
*Cet animal est très méchant,
Quand on l’attaque il se défend.
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Gee, who started “sending heavy weapons and other arms to Ukraine” first?
This reminds me of a briefing during Bush II’s Iraq war in which a US military spokesman, without irony, decried the presence of “foreign fighters” in Iraq.
How about we send more instead? And establish a no-fly zone of some sort…
As someone who has long had ethical issues with working on F-35 and B-2 Spirit parts I actually feel like maybe I’m doing something useful for once…
I saw a Ukrainian tweet about this that pointed out that Russia is currently Ukraines biggest heavy equipment arms supplier.
A good independent source that provide credence to that claim can be found here…
https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-documenting-equipment.html
Same as 1938 etc. The ‘right-thinking’ idiots were desperate to keep the Czechs and Poles from ‘provoking’ the poor Germans.