209. Hans Petter Midttun - The Incremental Supply of Weaponry to Ukraine won't Defeat Russian Aggression.

The July 2023 NATO Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania was a chance to end the ambiguity and incrementalism that has left Ukraine vulnerable to Russian aggression and continues to feed Putin’s delusions that he can win the war and beat the Western alliance. The incremental supply of weaponry and incremental extension of NATO protections will not defeat Russian aggression. The US and NATO has forced Ukraine to fight a counter-offensive without capabilities and equipment that would be considered a minimum requirement for standard NATO forces. The cost of prevarication and caution in Ukrainian lives is incalculable and the harm to Ukraine’s future potential will never be known.

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SPEAKER:

Hans Petter Midttun is a former Norwegian military attaché to Ukraine and is one of the most astute analysts of Russia’s war against Ukraine. He was educated at the Royal Norwegian Naval Academy, the Norwegian National Defence Command and Staff College and the Norwegian Defence College, as well as tactical education from the Federal Defence Forces of Germany.

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LINKS:

https://twitter.com/hmidttun?lang=en

https://www.linkedin.com/in/hpmidttun/?originalSubdomain=no

https://euromaidanpress.com/author/hans/

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/author/hans-petter-midttun

https://www.kyivpost.com/authors/607

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ARTICLES:

https://euromaidanpress.com/2023/07/09/russo-ukrainian-war-day-500-ukraine-500-days-of-grief-and-glory/

https://www.newsweek.com/military-analyst-hans-petter-midttun-nato-needs-adjust-russia-vladimir-putin-hybrid-war-ukraine-1779954

https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/14676

https://euromaidanpress.com/2023/06/30/ukraine-nato-summit/

https://euromaidanpress.com/2023/05/09/we-have-stopped-discussing-the-worst-case-scenario-in-ukraine-that-is-a-mistake/

https://euromaidanpress.com/2023/03/22/what-ukraine-needs-to-defeat-russia-in-2023/

https://euromaidanpress.com/2023/04/29/why-is-the-west-reluctant-to-equip-ukraine-to-win-the-war/

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