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Could Nato do more to stop the war in Ukraine?
Nato has refused to intervene militarily in the
Ukraine war. Dan Sabbagh explains what more the world’s most powerful military
alliance could do – and why full intervention is off the table for now
https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2022/mar/10/why-nato-cant-stop-the-war-in-ukraine-podcast
Thu 10 Mar
2022 03.00 GMT
When the
Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, addressed the UK parliament this week
via video link from his bunker, he had one overriding message: we need more
help to fight off Russia’s attacks and specifically we need a no-fly zone. But
as the Guardian’s defence and security editor, Dan Sabbagh, tells Michael Safi,
a no-fly zone is not happening. To do so would mean Nato forces directly
engaging Russian aircraft and would risk escalating the war into a European,
possibly nuclear, one.
It has left
the west with an impossible dilemma: stand back and watch Ukrainian cities be
reduced to rubble with the deaths of many more civilians inevitable. Or
intervene and risk a nuclear conflagration of the kind the world has never
seen. It’s a tightrope being walked in western capitals as world leaders
calibrate their next tranche of economic sanctions and weigh up what military
equipment can be sent to Ukraine without provoking a catastrophic response from
Vladimir Putin.
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