Retired four star general David Petraues told DW, that that US intelligence has indications that Russia is responsible for the breach of the dam in southern Ukraine, hoping that this might disrupt or delay the spring offensive. There are public accounts that US intelligence has indications that it was Russia. Did they literally blow the dam up thinking that somehow this might delay the offensive or disrupt it in some way. But I don’t think that that is going to be the case.
He says that Ukraine should not join Nato as long as the war is going on. But there should be a very solid path to NATO membership that’s provided at the Vilnius summit on 11th July we should have as firm a path to NATO membership as is absolutely possible. I think this is hugely important. Important. It’s important for the Ukrainian people, too. They need to be reassured. Even Henry Kissinger, who used to caution about extending NATO membership to former Soviet republics, now says that Ukraine should be made a member of NATO, given that for all intents and purposes, given all that we have provided to Ukraine, NATO’s security is at the border between Ukraine and Russia now, and we need to ensure that there will not be a repeat of this once this is said and done. So certainly not make NATO membership while the war is still going on. I think that there’s an understandable concern about that. But there should be a very solid path to NATO membership that’s provided at the Vilnius summit on 11th July
He says that this offensive which might start within the next weeks will be crucial: (A lot depends on the success of this offensive. And you could feel this when I was meeting with again, when we met with President Zelenskyy, when we met with the other other of the military leaders, the other ministers, even, again, business people, you can feel a degree of anxiety about this operation, as there should be.
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