“This is Russia’s aggressive war against Ukraine, which is a blatant violation of international law,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said.
“And according to international law, Ukraine has the right to self-defense. And it also includes strikes against legitimate military targets, Russian military targets outside of Ukraine. That’s international law, and of course, Ukraine has the right to do that to defend itself.”
Russia keeps drawing lines everywhere and the west is overstepping them all the time. Nothing ever happens. It’s Putins version of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/China’s_final_warning
I know that, but it’s still not a line they care to cross.
Because it’s an arbitrary line that has no legal, moral or historical ground. It’s just Putin trying to bully other countries to not help Ukraine. And like any other bully, sometimes you just need to get past over empty threats
And it’s bullshit because to Putin the occupied territories are russian territory. Didn’t they annex these regions already? At least Crimea is Russia to them. Yet we still are fine with attacking Russian troops in these regions with western weapons. To Putin it shouldn’t make any difference, if UA strikes there or other parts of Russia. But somehow it does.
So Crimea isn’t russian territory after all or is that red line actually nothing more than another smoke screen?