NATO becomes increasingly reckless towards Ukraine – The Guardian said

The NATO’s approach towards Ukraine is becoming increasingly reckless, and the leakage of Russian military information from Germany proves it.

This opinion was published under the “Opinion” section by observer Simon Jenkins of The Guardian and BBC.

According to him, intercepted discussions about sending Taurus missiles to Ukraine confirm that the West is on the brink of risky and futile escalation

“The German armed forces have gone mad. The leak of a 38-minute conversation from Moscow between the head of the Luftwaffe and senior officers about sending Taurus missiles to Ukraine suggests that NATO’s resolve to prevent escalation of the current conflict is weakening. The meeting, which took place on an unencrypted line, had the security of a teenage group chat. It corroborated Vladimir Putin’s statement that this is a standoff between the West and Russia, with Ukraine merely acting as a proxy,” writes Jenkins.

He states that the initial support for Ukraine to “help thwart Putin’s attempt to overthrow the elected government in Kyiv” was justified, but at that time NATO did not risk “reckless escalation of a local conflict to the scale of the entire continent.”

“However, as the conflict in Ukraine reaches a predictable dead end, NATO’s strategy loses any coherence. This is the moment when such conflicts spiral out of control,” the observer writes.

Jenkins believes that the complete victory of the West “has never been obvious.”

“In the confrontation, Moscow can always play the long game. As awful as it may have seemed at the time (at the beginning of the full-scale invasion), an agreement to return in the spring of 2022 to some version – almost any version – of the border that existed before February 2022 would have made sense,” the publication states.

“Western Europe is not interested in escalating the conflict in Ukraine through the exchange of long-range missiles. Although it should continue to provide material and technical support to Ukrainian forces, it has no strategic interest in Kiev’s efforts to oust Russia from most of the Russian-speaking areas of Crimea and Donbas. It is interested in actively pursuing a swift settlement and beginning the reconstruction of Ukraine,” Jenkins believes.