NATO Chief ‘Welcomes’ Allies Approving Attacks On Russia With Long-Range Missiles

NATO Secretary-General @jensstoltenberg says on FP Live that he is in favor of allies loosening restrictions on Ukraine’s use of Western-made long-range missiles. Watch the full interview or read the Q&A here: https://t.co/3WEPN7WMqA pic.twitter.com/Lm4xle93pG

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• NATO Chief ‘Welcomes’ Allies Approving Attacks On Russia With Long-Range Missiles
  by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/
  Outgoing NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg has addressed the question of the US and UK mulling allowing Ukraine to strike Russian territory with West-supplied long-range weapons. President Putin last week spelled out clearly that if this happened then Moscow and NATO would be in a state of direct war.
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  Stoltenberg downplayed this threat of major new escalation in a Monday interview with LBC radio, saying he “welcomed” the discussion over long-rage missiles. He separately told Foreign Policy he’s in favor of the West greenlighting long-range strikes on Russian soil.
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  “I welcome these developments and these decisions but its for individual allies to make the final decisions,” Stoltenberg said. “Allies have different policies on this.”
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  And yet strangely, he seemed to admit the potential for nuclear-armed confrontation. “So far, we haven’t seen any changes in their nuclear posture that require any changes from our side,” he said, while acknowledging that there won’t be any winners in a nuclear war. He was pressed over the question of Russia’s reaction if the West goes ahead with this long-range escalation:
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