Even if there is no threat to any NATO member states, the United States and its allies might directly intervene in the ongoing conflict between Moscow and Kyiv, the retired US Army general and ex-CIA chief David Petraeus argued on Saturday.
Petraeus, who also briefly served as the CIA director, believes that Washington might form a new coalition of the willing in such a scenario and use it instead of NATO.
Describing the potential of Moscow taking certain actions in Ukraine that the US and other nations might consider so shocking and so horrific for them to respond, the former US general claims they can react not as a NATO force but as a different, US-led multinational force that can intervene in the conflict.
As Petraeus explains, this multinational military alliance could still likely be bound by the NATO treaty and only join the conflict if one of its members is attacked, i.e. if Article 5 is invoked.
He, however, believes that Russia is not interested at all in escalating the existing conflict into a global war since Russian President Vladimir Putin does not need a wider conflict at the moment.
Former CIA director also doubled down on his claims he made previously in October that if Moscow uses nuclear arms in Ukraine, Washington could wipe out all Russian forces in Ukraine, including the Russian Black Sea fleet, pointing out on Saturday that the US response to such an unacceptable move on Moscow’s part would involve a lot more than just diplomatic, economic, and legal countermeasures.
In case Russia resorts to the use of nuclear arms, something Petraeus called an extremely bad decision, he described his suggestion as just one of many options the US has in store.
At the same time, Petraeus believes that there is nothing Russia could do to change the unfavorable situation on the frontlines Moscow is facing.
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