Comes as NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg calls on alliance to allow Ukraine to hit Russian territory with Western-supplied missiles.
The West is already effectively engaged in a direct war with Russia in Ukraine right now despite media reporting the contrary, according to British Member of Parliament Andrew Bridgen.
Bridgen made the remarks in an appearance on the “Doc Malik” podcast earlier this month, explaining that Western leaders haven’t broke the news yet to their citizens.
“We’re actually at war with Russia now. They just haven’t yet told you,” Bridgen said.
British MP says we are already AT WAR with Russia.
“We are actually at war with Russia now”
“They just haven’t told you”
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“I actually met with Andrei Kelin, the Russian ambassador in London, a couple of months ago,” he continued. “And he said, ‘We know your people are firing those Storm Shadow missiles at us out of Ukraine, because you couldn’t train the Ukrainians to do it. We know you’re doing it.’”
“And I think everybody knows there are lots of U.S., UK, French — the French are in there — “
Host Doc Malik interrupted to ask why Western forces are instigating Russia.
“I thought Brits were down on the ground as training advisers. Teaching sessions and showing them– but apparently, that’s how we started with the Vietnam War,” he said. “What the fuck are we doing poking the bear? That’s really stupid.”
Bridgen replied that despite the West’s efforts to trigger open war with Russia, its President Vladimir Putin has demonstrated restraint.
“They’re determined to get us into war with Russia. And thank God we got someone in Putin who at least has got brains,” he said.
“At the end of the day, if you look at the facts, since 1991 we’ve moved NATO 1,000 miles nearer to Moscow. They haven’t moved nearer to us,” he noted.
“And if you think about what we were trying to do, the EU wanted to bring in Ukraine for whatever reason and NATO wanted to put missiles on the border of Russia. Well I mean, what did America do when the old Soviet Union tried to put missiles in Cuba 90 miles off the Florida coast. They weren’t having it were they?”
This comes as NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Friday urged Western leaders to allow Ukraine to use their weapons systems to freely strike within Russia.
“The time has come for allies to consider whether they should lift some of the restrictions they have put on the use of weapons they have donated to Ukraine,” Stoltenberg told The Economist.
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Reporter:
“You are asking the US to lift the restrictions on the use of American weapons over Russian territory?”
Stoltenberg:
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— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) May 25, 2024
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova condemned Stoltenberg’s call for the alliance to let Ukraine hit Russian territory with Western-supplied missiles.
“It is useful to know this for everyone who is invited to the so-called ‘peace conference’ in Switzerland,” Zakharova wrote on her Telegram channel.
