{"id":68665,"date":"2024-06-18T11:28:03","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T16:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68665"},"modified":"2024-06-18T11:28:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T16:28:03","slug":"kievs-plan-to-store-f-16s-in-nato-states-raises-the-risk-of-world-war-iii-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68665","title":{"rendered":"Kiev\u2019s Plan to Store F-16s in NATO States Raises the Risk of World War III"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kiev\u2019s Plan to Store F-16s in NATO States Raises the Risk of World War III<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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It can\u2019t be ruled out that Zelensky might task one of his pilots with carrying out a mission directly from NATO territory without first stopping at a Kiev-controlled airfield in order to provoke Russia into striking the base from which it departed in self-defense.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ukrainian Air Force head of aviation\u00a0Sergey Golubtsov<\/strong>\u00a0told US state-run\u00a0Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty<\/a>\u00a0in an interview over the weekend that Kiev plans to store some of its F-16s in NATO states for reserve and training purposes. While this might sound like a pragmatic policy, particularly since it would deter Russia from destroying its entire fleet since President Putin recently mocked\u00a0speculation<\/a>\u00a0about him plotting to attack NATO as \u201cbullshit<\/a>\u201d, it actually raises the risk of World War III.<\/p>\n

To explain, although US Air Force chief\u00a0Frank Kendell<\/strong>\u00a0claimed last summer that the F-16s are \u201cnot going to be a game-changer<\/a>\u201d for\u00a0Ukraine<\/a>\u00a0and Golubtsov himself confirmed in his latest interview that they\u2019re \u201cnot a panacea and we do not wear rose-colored glasses<\/a>\u201d, both downplay the nuclear dimension. President Putin brought it up earlier this spring when he\u00a0noted<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cF-16 aircraft can also carry nuclear weapons, and we will also have to heed this while organising our combat operations.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Russian leader also warned that \u201cwe would see them as legitimate targets if they operate from the airfields of third countries, no matter where they are located.\u201d Mutual mistrust between Russia and the US is at a record low and continues falling by the week, made all the worse by Ukraine\u2019s recent attack(s) against Russia\u2019s early nuclear warning systems that might have been\u00a0tacitly approved by America<\/a>. This comes as the US is playing a\u00a0dangerous game of nuclear chicken<\/a>\u00a0with Russia.<\/p>\n

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Kiev\u2019s Plan to Store F-16s in NATO States Raises the Risk of World War III It can\u2019t be ruled out that Zelensky might task one of his pilots with carrying out a mission directly from NATO territory without first stopping at a Kiev-controlled airfield in order to provoke Russia into striking the base from which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6108,6110,1610,553,694,821,862,891],"class_list":["post-68665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-andrew-korybko","tag-global-research","tag-kiev","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-war","tag-world-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68666,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68665\/revisions\/68666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}