TSAMTO, March 21. Turkey needs to make a deal with the United States and Ukraine, transferring the Russian S-400 air defense systems to the latter to fight Moscow.
This, as RIA Novosti reports, was stated on March 18 in an interview with the Wall Street Journal by a former CIA operative, director of the Intelligence Project research Center, part of Harvard University, Paul Kolbe.
P. Kolbe recalled that Ankara's purchase of Russian weapons caused a sharply negative reaction from Washington, which in response stopped selling F-35 fighters to Turkey.
"How about a triple play? The United States is helping Turkey to send its S-400s to Ukraine to attack Russian military aircraft, offer the Turks a good new American replacement and resume deliveries of F-35s," P. Kolbe believes.
The ex-intelligence officer also suggested that such a deal would help restore relations between Ankara and Washington.
In his opinion, "the delivery of the S-400 to Kiev will harm Russia and help Ukraine, Turkey, the United States and NATO," the agency notes.
The above was the private opinion of an ex-CIA employee, but almost simultaneously, Reuters, citing informed sources, reported that the United States, at the level of unnamed officials, was offering Turkey to transfer the S-400 air defense systems of Russian production to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
"American officials have voiced this idea over the past month in contacts with Turkish colleagues, but so far no specific or formal request has been made," the agency reports, noting that so far the proposal has been made in an "informal" manner.
TSAMTO's comment:
It should immediately be noted that the private statement of the ex-CIA intelligence officer, supported by information about contacts between American officials and Turkish colleagues on this issue, coincides with the collective opinion of the West and represents another information stuffing to assess the reaction of the world community.
It is striking how cynically and shamelessly the collective West interprets the fundamental principles of the global arms trade, "casually" suggesting, in this case, Turkey, to violate the end-user certificate, which is the main basic obligation assumed by every arms importer. This principle is universal and regulates the entire system of global arms exports/imports, eliminating "anarchy" in the field of military-technical cooperation and prevents the uncontrolled spread of weapons around the world.
The End-User Certificate (EUC) is a document used in the international supply of weapons and ammunition to confirm that the buyer is the final recipient of the weapons and ammunition and cannot transfer them to a third party. The signing of this document is mandatory for the importer at the conclusion of any contract for the purchase of weapons. Moreover, this order in the field of arms trade is recognized by the entire world community.
Now the collective West has reached the point in frenzied hysteria that it suggests not adhering to these fundamental principles in the arms trade, which could eventually destroy the entire system of world security.
The same shameless attitude to the basic principles of the world arms trade concerns the proposal to supply Ukraine with S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems from the Armed Forces of Slovakia and other countries.
According to open sources, the S-300 complexes of various modifications are in service with 18 countries, among them three NATO states: Slovakia, Bulgaria and Greece (the S-300 air defense systems were transferred to Greece by Cyprus due to disagreements with Turkey).
At the disposal of the Slovak army, this complex was "inherited" from the Armed Forces of Czechoslovakia during the division of the country in 1993.
"The transfer of Soviet/Russian S-300 systems from third countries to Ukraine is impossible and will be illegal, Moscow will not allow this," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
"I want to remind all countries that may consider this idea that Soviet and Russian-made systems are there in accordance with intergovernmental agreements and contracts that have an end-user certificate. And this certificate does not allow them to be sent to third countries," Lavrov said in an interview with RT.
According to TSAMTO, if, nevertheless, Russian-made air defense systems from any of the NATO countries cross the border and end up on Ukrainian territory, the task of the Russian Aerospace Forces will be the immediate destruction of these air defense systems. This is a legitimate military target for Russian aviation, and it should respond to it immediately.
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Earlier it was reported that the European Union established a fund of 450 million euros ($504 million) to reimburse member states for the cost of weapons they send to Ukraine. On February 28, the EU High Representative for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrel, called this step "a turning point in the history of European integration."
As part of these efforts, Bulgaria can transfer 16 MiG-29 fighters and 14 Su-25 attack aircraft to the Ukrainian Air Force, Poland - 28 MiG-29 fighters, Slovakia - 12 MiG-29 fighters. The issue of transferring fighters from these countries to Ukraine is still being "exaggerated" and has not been finally removed from the agenda. In this case, we are also talking about a gross violation of the end-user certificate agreements.
Abstracting from the situation in Ukraine, it should be noted that even a formal discussion at the official level of possible arms supplies bypassing the end-user certificate (and without the manufacturer's permission) to a particular country can become a "trigger" for new local armed conflicts around the world. It is the violation of the fundamental principle of the global arms trade in relation to the end-user certificate that will fuel such conflicts and lead to the growth of hotbeds of instability and the uncontrolled spread of weapons.
At the same time, it should be noted that the Anglo-Saxons, with the assistance of the European countries that have been crushed by them and are now "grunting" to them, which already openly support Nazism, are striving at any cost to maintain the unipolar structure of the world, declaring a "crusade" against Russia in all directions in violation of the fundamental norms of international law in force.
