“I am sure Ukraine will raise the argument that if a non-NATO country has benefited from air defense when attacked by a hostile adversary, why should Ukraine be treated any differently ?Given the dire and urgent situation Ukraine is currently facing, this argument is quite convincing.”
The display of aerial prowess by Western allies and their partners in the Middle East – including warplanes rushing to shoot down cruise missiles and Shahed drones heading towards Israel – has proven the effectiveness of the missile defense system Israeli defense when combined with some of the most advanced missile defense systems in the world. plane.
But it also highlighted a gaping difference in how Western powers treat Israel and Ukraine.
More than two years after Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine continues to be the target of missile and drone attacks that frequently overwhelm the country’s dwindling air defense capabilities, leading to the bombardment of Kharkiv, a city close to Ukraine’s border with Russia, is suffering the loss of front-line towns held by Ukraine until recently, as well as the destruction of a key power plant last week.
With Germany pledging to send an additional Patriot missile defense system to bolster Ukraine’s air defense capability and four European countries pledging to send some 45 F16 fighter jets to Ukraine, the powers Western countries have never proposed activating their own anti-missile defense systems or sending their own planes into Ukrainian skies to repel the threat.
Asked why Britain could not offer the same kind of support it has given to Israel to Ukraine, British Foreign Secretary David Cameron told LBC radio on Thursday that this would represent a “dangerous escalation”.
Politices
