germany, to ukraine, why they decided against that. the intelligence community has assessed the transfer of mig 29s to the ukraine may be escalate to re and might increase the prospect of military escalation with nato. and that is too simplistic and too naive, and it is a reflection of the fact that we have enjoyed 30 years of peace, and we need to get back into a cold war construct of statecraft in recognising what we re up against. we are still in peacetime mode. but we re up against. we are still in peacetime mode. in peacetime mode. but they don t want in peacetime mode. but they don t want the in peacetime mode. but they don t want the escalation. i in peacetime mode. but they don t want the escalation. ij don t want the escalation. of course they are not, so what we do? so we re back into 1938, what we are going to do, we don t want any trouble here. you are arguing for escalation and yet you are sitting on the fence. ., ., and yet you are sitting on the fence. . . when l
the us pentagon spokesman who is talking about why the proposal to transfer polish fighterjets from a us base in germany to ukraine, why they decided against that. the intelligence community has assessed the transfer of mig 29 to ukraine may be mistaken as escalatory and could result in significant russian reaction that might increase the prospects of military escalation with nato. imean. and that s too simplistic and too naive, and it s a reflection of the fact that we ve enjoyed 30 years of peace and we need to get back into a cold war construct of statecraft and recognising what we re up against. we re still in peacetime mode. but they don t want the escalation. of course not. yeah, but that s obvious. so what do we do? so we re back into 1938. what we re going to do. we don t want any trouble here. but you re arguing for escalation and yet you re also sitting on the fence, saying, oh, i m not really arguing for escalation.
even though they requested this. we re actually explaining to russia what our red lines are. no general on the battlefield ever declares what they won t do. so even if we were not going to do it, you still keep the other side guessing. so, all right, let me give you a quote from john kirby, the us pentagon spokesman who is talking about why the proposal to transfer polish fighterjets from a us base in germany to ukraine, why they decided against that. the intelligence community has assessed the transfer of mig 29 to ukraine may be mistaken as escalatory and could result in significant russian reaction that might increase the prospects of military escalation with nato. imean. and that s too simplistic and too naive, and it s a reflection of the fact that we ve enjoyed 30 years of peace and we need to get back into a cold war construct of statecraft and recognising what we re up against. we re still in peacetime mode. but they don t want the escalation. of course not. yeah, but that
sanctions side, but militarily, nato is the most potent military alliance in the world, but we re still not quite sure how to utilise that, how to stand up to putin s aggression. you ve got some ideas a no fly zone, for instance. you know that there are regular objections to this. nato chiefjens stoltenberg says the only way to implement a no fly zone is to send nato fighter planes into ukrainian airspace and then impose that no fly zone by shooting down russian planes. us secretary of state antony blinken says, and that could lead to a fully fledged war in europe. they don t want it. well, let sjust take that in part. firstly, as i suggest, we ve moved into a new era of insecurity. what we ve had over the last 30 years is this peacetime mode that we ve moved into. we ve been pretty fortunate. we re now resorting back to type. the world is an angry place. you get state on state aggression, and we re back to seeing that today. but the west hasn t advanced, hasn t woken up to the sca