The two guests of the “The Opposite Direction” program (23/5/2023) exchanged mutual accusations in the context of their reading of the course of the Russian war against Ukraine, and the possibility of war igniting between Russia and Europe directly after the decision to provide Kiev with American planes and European long-range missiles.
Political science professor Nizar Bush underestimated the importance of the weapons provided by Western countries to Ukraine, arguing that these countries had tried all kinds of weapons and could not push the Russians back from their goals or remove them from the lands that he said they had liberated from the “Nazi regime” in Ukraine.
Bush said that the Russians are advancing step by step with a cold mind and destroying the advanced Western machine, stressing that they have many weapons capable of turning Western planes into birds that fall on Ukrainian soil, not Russian soil.
On the other hand, the editor-in-chief of the Ukraine website in the Arabic language, Muhammad Faraj Allah, stressed that Russia has exhausted all its strength, and is unable to resolve the war and even control the city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, saying that it has only some drones to take from Iran.
Farajallah added that Ukraine is entering history today with a Western weapons system, including the Patriot, the German Leopard tanks, and the American F-16s, which he said would close the Ukrainian skies to the Russians.
He said that the Russians were unable to resolve the war despite Ukraine’s modest capabilities, so how do they resolve it today with the “F-16” stage and the long-range missiles that Western countries are supplying to Kiev?
The goal of the Russian army
And whether Western capitals have come within range of the Russian army after the decision to supply Ukraine with American planes and European long-range missiles, the political science professor responded by saying that the Russian doctrine states that if Russia is exposed to danger or defeat, then it will burn all of Europe at all, but he indicated what Consider it the rationality of the Russians.
In turn, the editor-in-chief of Ukraine in Arabic claimed that Moscow has left the club of the powerful, and is unable to attack the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), especially in light of its expansion in the region, as the Baltic Sea has become the sea of this alliance, as the guest said.
According to Faraj Allah, Ukraine has proven to the West and Europe in particular that it is very important to them, stressing that Western countries now see that breaking Russia in Ukraine will rebuild the new world order.
As for the political science professor, he replied that Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a gift to his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, during the G7 leaders’ summit when they met to provide Kiev with the “F-16” system, and Putin’s gift was to announce the “liberation” of Bakhmut, as the spokesman said.
The Bakhmut region in Donetsk has been witnessing a conflict for months, and at the beginning of this week, Moscow announced full control of the severely destroyed city, which had a population of 70,000, and Zelinsky quickly questioned the Russian version.
It is noteworthy that the administration of US President Joe Biden announced its agreement to train Ukrainian pilots to fly US-made F-16 fighter jets, and that it would allow NATO member states to provide Kiev with advanced US aircraft. Zelensky described this step as historic.