{"id":2262785,"date":"2024-06-08T05:15:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T09:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/putin-should-not-deter-nato-from-arming-ukraine-top-officer-warns\/"},"modified":"2024-06-08T05:17:31","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T09:17:31","slug":"putin-should-not-deter-nato-from-arming-ukraine-top-officer-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/putin-should-not-deter-nato-from-arming-ukraine-top-officer-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Top officer warns NATO against letting Putin deter arms support for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fputin-should-not-deter-nato-from-arming-ukraine-top-officer-warns%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2262785&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>El<\/p>\n<p>The most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israel-kills-a-top-hamas-military-official\/\" title=\"Israel kills a top Hamas military official\">senior military officer<\/a> of NATO, Adm. Rob Bauer, believes that \u2063the\u2062 alliance must continue to arm Ukraine and not allow Russian President Vladimir Putin to deter it \u2063from \u200daiding Kyiv. This is because the alliance has\u200d allowed Putin to \u200c&#8221;self-deter&#8221; them \u200dfrom acting\u2062 in Ukraine&#8217;s best interests many \u2064times in the past. Bauer believes that the\u200b time for allowing Putin to self-deter is over, and that Ukraine \u2062should be allowed \u2062to hit Russian\u2062 targets with US weapons. This comes \u200bas world leaders,\u2064 including \u200bUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, commemorated the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. This new policy reversal by US\u200c President Joe Biden will allow for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-that-wouldnt-approve-3-billion-for-trump-border-wall-approves-40-billion-for-ukraine\/\" title=\"House That Wouldn\u2019t Approve  Billion for Trump Border Wall Approves  Billion for Ukraine\">longer-range weapons<\/a> to be provided to Ukraine. Bauer argues that\u2063 from\u2063 a tactical standpoint, striking in the aggressor&#8217;s territory is beneficial\u200c in pushing \u2062them back and forcing\u2062 them to operate from \u2062further away.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/nato\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>NATO\u2019s<\/a> most senior military officer believes the alliance has to continue arming <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Ukraine\">Ukraine<\/a> and stop allowing Russian President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/vladimir-putin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Vladimir Putin<\/a> to deter it from aiding Kyiv to the best of its abilities.<\/p>\n<p>Adm. Rob Bauer, the chairman of the Military Committee of NATO and the military adviser to the secretary-general and the North Atlantic Council, acknowledged on Friday that the alliance has allowed Putin to \u201cself-deter\u201d the United States and the alliance from acting in Ukraine\u2019s best interests \u201cmany, many times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve heard many times that Putin or other officials used the word \u2018red lines\u2019 when it came to the tanks, when it came to the HIMARS, when it came to the ATACMS,\u201d he said during a <em>Washington Post<\/em> <em>Live<\/em> event. \u201cAnd every time, we sort of waited a little bit longer to think about it, and then we gave it, and the result was actually that it wasn\u2019t a red line, but the actual result was that the Russians were able to strengthen their defensive works in Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the time is over that we should allow Putin to self-deter us because that\u2019s basically what has happened many, many times,\u201d Bauer explained.<\/p>\n<p>His comments came as world leaders, including Ukrainian President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/volodymyr-zelensky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a>, traveled to France to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Allied forces\u2019 D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944. President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Joe Biden<\/a> also recently announced a new policy reversal that allows Ukraine to use U.S. weapons to hit targets in Russia, though several restrictions still apply.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Russian<\/a> forces massed along the border near the Ukrainian city of\u00a0Kharkiv\u00a0and were able to attack the city aerially while remaining in a sanctuary of sorts because Ukraine did not have U.S. approval, before recently, to use U.S. weapons to hit those targets on the other side of the border.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine is still barred from hitting targets further inside Russia, though U.S. officials have indicated those restrictions could also be lifted, but that has yet to happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the best thing to do. If you are attacked from a nation that is illegally attacking you, and they start a war, and you are defending yourself, you can do two things: You can wait until the missiles reach you and then try to kill the arrows, or you kill the archer, and the archer is, in many ways, in Russia,\u201d Bauer said when asked about the risks of allowing the Ukrainians to hit targets in Russian territory.<\/p>\n<p>From a tactical standpoint, Bauer argued it is beneficial for a defending military to strike in the aggressor\u2019s territory to push it back and force it to operate from further away. That also requires longer-range weapons, which Biden has decided to provide to Ukraine after initially balking at the idea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgain, in the law on armed conflicts, there\u2019s no limits in terms of the range. So, militarily, again, if the target is deeper into Russia, then militarily, you want to strike that target. If, for example, the aircraft that take off from an airfield deeper into Russia, what we\u2019ve seen with the increasing range that the Ukrainians have been given to strike was that the Russians had to push back to bring back their logistic nodes, and that, of course, makes it more difficult for the Russians to be successful in the fight. If you have to bring back your logistics from, let\u2019s say, 10, 15, 20 kilometers to 50, 100 kilometers, that will make it more cumbersome for the Russians to bring in the logistics, and that helps in the fight,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Putin, who has frequently spoken about Russian escalation and the country\u2019s nuclear arsenal, did so again this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltimately, if we see that these countries are being drawn into a war against us, and this is their direct participation in the war against the Russian Federation, then we reserve the right to act in a similar way,\u201d he said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/putin-threatens-weapons-attack-west-ukraine-strikes-inside-russia-rcna155795\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>according<\/a> to NBC News. \u201cBut, in general, this is the path to very serious problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine has received a boost of U.S. support in recent weeks after several months of congressional inaction prevented the administration from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israel-war-biden-faces-his-latest-international-and-political-crisis\/\" title=\"Biden confronts new global and political crisis with Israel war.\">providing additional military aid<\/a> to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s safe to say that while they are still under pressure from the Russians, particularly in the East, that because they have now been able to receive the benefits of five security packages and now six coming as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fauci-on-people-skeptical-of-his-claims-they-dont-understand-that-science-is-a-dynamic-process\/\" title=\"Fauci On People Skeptical Of His Claims: They Don\u2019t \u2018Understand\u2019 That \u2018Science Is A Dynamic Process\u2019\">president announced today<\/a>, that they have been able to thwart Russian advances, particularly around Kharkiv,\u201d National Security Council coordinator John Kirby said on Friday. \u201cThe Russians really have kind of stalled out up there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir advance on Kharkiv is all but over,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NATO&#8217;s top military officer, Adm. Rob Bauer, asserts that the alliance must persist in arming Ukraine and resist being deterred by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Bauer, who serves as the chairman of NATO&#8217;s Military Committee and advises both the secretary-general and the North Atlantic Council, emphasizes maximizing support for Kyiv<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2671,"featured_media":2262786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/AP24155494071271-1-1.jpg.optimal.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2262785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/AP24155494071271-1-1.jpg.optimal.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2262785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2262786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2262785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2262785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2262785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}