According to media reports, Ukraine's attacks on many places in Russia on Chinese New Year's Eve resulted in dozens of casualties, triggering fierce retaliation from Moscow. According to foreign media reports, since the 1st, the Russian army has launched more than 500 missiles and drones against Ukraine, causing devastating blows to key military and civilian facilities throughout Ukraine. In this regard, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky recently called on Western allies to provide the Ukrainian army with more and more advanced air defense systems to resist the Russian army's air strikes.
In the case of a precipitous decline in Western military aid to Ukraine, Russia launched a large-scale air raid on the entire territory of Ukraine "unprecedented since the start of the war" at this time, in retaliation for the Ukrainian army's recent successive attacks on Russian facilities, including Crimea, should only be one factor. More importantly, in the context of NATO countries generally facing an empty arsenal, Russia's super-large-scale air strikes on Ukraine are, to a large extent, to demonstrate its strong war potential to NATO countries. In other words, by doing so, Russia is sending a clear signal to NATO countries that when Russia is cleaning up Ukraine, it still has the ability to free up its hands to clean up certain NATO countries.
Obviously, the polar bear showed its fangs at this critical moment, and the strong combat effectiveness it displayed not only made Zelensky cry out for NATO military aid, but also made some NATO members in the frontline position begin to feel fear. According to media reports, a few days ago, three NATO member states, Bulgaria, Poland and Romania, sent telegrams to the Kremlin, promising each other that their territory "will not be used for any NATO operations" while also calling on Moscow to "exercise restraint." Now it seems that these countries that were the most fierce anti-Russian in the past do not dare to pretend in front of Russia in the face of the grim situation of fierce war and danger.
In fact, it is no wonder that the above three countries are afraid, because in the entire NATO military bloc, these 3 countries border with Ukraine. Moreover, the airspace of Poland and Romania has been repeatedly "invaded" by Russian missiles or drones before. What's worse is that because the aviation facilities in Ukraine were seriously damaged by the Russian army's air strikes, the F-16 fighter jets that the Netherlands and some other NATO countries assisted Ukraine are very likely to be deployed in the territory of the above three countries. This means that Ukrainian pilots will fly these fighters from bases in these countries to fight Russian troops in Ukraine.
Moscow has previously stated that if Ukraine's neighbors allow F-16s to be deployed on its territory and attack Russian troops, they will be considered belligerents and will be subject to missile attacks. Therefore, the above three countries made relevant commitments to Russia at this time, obviously to ensure that the military bases in their territory will not be used to deploy Ukrainian fighters, and hope that Russia will exercise restraint to avoid the conflict from getting out of control and harming Ukraine's neighbors. It is no wonder that for these Ukrainian neighbors, once the wildfire of the conflict in Ukraine spreads to the outside world, they will be the first to be burned. Therefore, in the absence of the West's ability to guarantee Ukraine's victory, avoiding overstimulating this polar bear is the best way for them to seek self-preservation.
Recently, Ukraine's military attack on Russia has touched the sensitive political nerves of polar bears, not only attracting their unprecedented retaliation since the start of the war, but also further increasing people's fears of spillover from the war in Ukraine. A few days ago, the Belarusian government, which has been equipped with Russian nuclear weapons, has ordered the army to be put on high alert and put all advanced weapons, including nuclear weapons, on combat readiness to deal with the crisis of the spread of the conflict in Ukraine. Obviously, the continuation of the conflict in Ukraine has shrouded the entire European region in the haze of war.
The spillover of the conflict in Ukraine is very likely to trigger a full-scale war in Europe or even a third world war, which is a fact known to all Europeans. Europe's involvement in this conflict is largely a consequence of the instigation of the United States. Today, the United States is mired in a proxy war designed by Iran against it, and has no time to care about the lives of its European allies. Therefore, once a full-scale war breaks out in Europe, regional countries will have to face it alone without the United States to shoulder the burden.
Obviously, compared with other European countries that are far away from the battlefield, once the war in Ukraine spills over, Ukraine's neighbors such as Poland, Bulgaria and Romania will become the main battlefields of the European war. In such a situation, regardless of what the other European allies may think, the three countries must make relevant commitments to Russia and expect the other to exercise restraint. After all, for these countries, how to defend themselves at this critical moment is obviously far more important than defending the so-called "democratic values".