Russia-Ukraine war: Is NATO looking to escalate the war? | WION Fineprint

Hakim bck is the former German ambassador to Nato and former European diplomatic and security adviser to German Chancellor helmet K is now joining us live from Paris Ambassador bik welcome to the show big NATO Partners including the uh some in the Baltic states have become more lenient in their tone on how Ukraine should uh use their long range missiles how do you view NATO’s role in the conflict this far well first of all NATO is trying to avoid any direct conflict between NATO and Russia this is one side and the other side when you look at the development of a conflict in the last weeks there are really weaknesses of the Ukrainian air defense you don’t use Patriots against drones you should use use simply a weapons uh to to attack Against drones but please not uh a patriot it’s out of any cost if you want cost it’s too expensive if you want but they do not have enough and therefore the ukrainians try to hit what we call in the military terms the hland on the Russian Side by longer range missiles coming from Britain coming from France uh we have seen certain even on on Russian TV uh they try to do this this but all this is not sufficient what I call with regard to the Russian quantity and the Russians have learned in the last months in this conflict and therefore they have open a second front in the north uh and they try to fight let’s say with other means than only sophisticated ones Ambassador yes please please Ambassador uh sorry to cut you short but um ambassador bik there’s a a statement by David Cameron the UK foreign secretary who said that Ukraine has absolutely the right to strike back at Russia even if it includes inside Russia what do you make of that statement by this foreign Ministry Minister it’s a matter of fact if you want because the ukrainians in the last months have done so they have been striking oil refineries within Russia they have been striking other points in Russia they have been trying to strike on Military airports not only in Crimea but in inner Russia they have done so the problem is ukrainians do not have enough weapons to do this in an efficient way and there what I call the West is asked to do more if they want to protect in an efficient way Ukraine well Ambassador bck finally in your view should Ukraine be armed with more deadlier weapons to inflict more pain on Russia well it depends on what you mean by deadlier weapons uh I know there is a certain German problem on the tawus missiles I know this where Chancellor Schultz is refusing to act in this sense because he is thinking this is a weapon that could reach at the end of the day Moscow and there would this would mean an escalation the Germans would not accept and there are certain limits within earlin or between Airlines if you want some have been opening look at this strange debate we have had about delivery of tanks from the Western World tanks are not the decisive weapon you need them as support for artillery yes what the ukrainians should have got much more it’s artillery and at the same time air defense simply air defense possibilities and there the West should do much more than he has done in the past and these two key weapons they need and they need drones at the same time this is true all right I’ve been talking to Hakim bich is the former German ambassador to Nato and former uh European diplomatic and security advisor to German Chancellor helmet call Ambassador thank you for talking to us today a pleasure as always for all the latest news download the we on app And subscribe to our YouTube channel

Moscow is claiming to have secured key positions in Kharkiv while Ukraine is desperately fighting back with limited resources as it waits for Western weapons to reach the front lines. This desperate situation has parked a fiery debate amongst Western allies. Is it time to rewrite the Rules of Engagement?

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8 comments

  1. advisor to Chancellor Helmut Kohl until 1998.,..,ambassador to NATO until 2002 ,.,. Lets hear what the guy that hasnt bin in office for +22 years has to say 😂
    Wions source of experts thats bin out of the game for decades,.,. delivering solid nonsens.

    Why dont you just bring news about the actual war fronts striks ect. insted of this half assed shit you call news.

  3. This man doesn't know what he is talking about and the interview needs to be less passive. Does the ex-ambassador consider that if the West escalates and strikes Moscow, some European cities such as Berlin, London and Paris might be obliterated? Fool.

  7. Why was the USA so successful during the Cold War?

    It implemented the Marshall Plan to economically strengthen its partners in Europe.

    The USA was the largest economy and opened its market to the products of its allies.

    The USA offered its allies a security umbrella with nuclear deterrence through NATO.

    As a result, America managed to push back the influence of the Soviet Union on Europe and ultimately win the Cold War.

    The alliance between Western Europe and the USA is proving difficult these days.

    For example, Germany follows a mercantilist economic model and is therefore dependent on cheap energy and large export markets.

    Russia and China can provide both of these for Western Europe like no other country.

    The USA, on the other hand, is becoming increasingly less important as an economic partner.

    And since the collapse of the Soviet Union, there is no serious military threat from Russia to Western Europe.

    Nevertheless, tens of thousands of American soldiers are still stationed on German soil in hundreds of US military bases and US nuclear weapons.

    If you look at the situation objectively from the US perspective, America is protecting Europe from the countries with which it has close trade relations.

    Europe's core interest, however, is to further expand its economic relations with the USA's biggest competitors.

    Don't be blinded by the politicians' rhetoric.

    Feelings, shared history, values, culture and traditions play no role at all in whether alliances really work.

    What matters is whether the interests coincide.

    And it turns out that the interests of Europe and the USA can no longer be reconciled today and this partnership will soon end.

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