Stoltenberg: Ukraine Can Use West-Supplied F-16’s Against Targets “Outside Ukraine”

• Stoltenberg: Ukraine Can Use West-Supplied F-16’s Against Targets “Outside Ukraine”
  by https://halturnerradioshow.com/
  NATO head Jens Stoltenberg tipped the Alliance’s hand today when he told media that the F-16’s being given to Ukraine by the West, “Can be used to hit targets outside of Ukraine.”  Read: inside Russia.
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  Now, the F-16 is a terrific war plane but it is NOT Stealthy.   It *can* be tracked by radar and it *can* be hit by surface-to-air missiles.   Russia’s air defense capabilities are second to none, especially with their S-400 and still un-used S-500.  So the F-16’s are not likely to last very long once they are placed in service of Ukraine.
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  One big unknown here is which missiles those F-16’s will be equipped with.   They can handle long-range air-to-ground missiles, some of which have a range “in excess” of 500 miles; which would put Moscow itself within striking distance of those planes. Another even bigger “unknown” is where those F-16’s will takeoff and land?
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  The air fields inside Ukraine are beaten to a pulp by Russia.  None of them – to my knowledge – is capable of handling the re-fueling, re-arming, and maintenance of those F-16 jets. So the big question seems to remain, WHERE will those jets takeoff and land?
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  Russia has made it publicly clear that if those jets takeoff from a NATO base, and attack Russians, then the planes AND THE BASE THEY TAKEOFF FROM will be “mercilessly destroyed.” That right there opens the door to a NATO member country being able to say “We have been attacked” and invoke the NATO Collective Self Defense Treaty, Article 5.
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  Russia has ALSO made it publicly clear that they know NATO conventional forces are SUPERIOR to Russian conventional forces.  They publicly admitted this.  But Russia then ALSO said “We are a nuclear power.  And our nuclear capability is superior to NATO.  If Article 5, Collective Self-Defense is invoked against Russia, it will be a war that no one will win.”
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  Those are the EXACT words they spoke.
  Well, as most readers know, there is only ONE type of war that “no one will win” — a nuclear war.
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  Weeks ago, RUMORS hit the intel circuits saying Ukraine had begun trucking those F-16’s into the country, partially disassembled.  Then, those RUMORS quieted down.   There’s been really no word since then, about those planes, until today’s remarks by Stoltenberg.
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