“The most important red line has been crossed already. And that was when the Russians entered Ukraine,” Mette Frederiksen says.
Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called Monday for Ukraine’s allies to greenlight the use of donated weapons for long-range strikes against Russia.
“My suggestion is, let us end the discussion about red lines,” Frederiksen told Bloomberg in an interview that aired Monday. Ukraine’s benefactors had made a “mistake” by engaging in handwringing over Kyiv hitting targets inside Russia, she added, as doing so had given Moscow “too good a card in their hands.”
Arms-donating countries, particularly the U.S., have set restrictions on Ukraine’s use of their weapons in long-range strikes, due to fears of being dragged further into a conflict with Russia.
I didn’t think a lot of the U.S. weapons were modern to our arsenal. I know the Brits and Danish had, so I understand that.
But any strikes within Ukraine against Russian forces could place those platforms in such a position, and we know from history that Russia has a way to pull tech recovered from the battlefield. I doubt that’s the main reason.
Stupid and unlikely thought I had: The West don’t want Russia to know just how weak it really is against the West so that Russia doesn’t kick itself into high gear trying to truly modernize its forces by eliminating the grift and corruption that plagues its MIC. A Russia plagued by a corrupt military is a Russia that is essentially toothless in an armed conflict.
Of course, this doesn’t excuse not allowing deep Russian strikes with already provided equipment.