In addition, the cruise missiles are a kind of substitute for the fact that the West has not yet delivered the fighter jets demanded by Ukraine, Wallace said. “If you can’t deliver fighter jets, can you help deliver the things that fighter jets do, which is with strikes deep in the backcountry? Yes we can, we can do that with Storm Shadow,” Wallace said.
The conservative politician warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin was determined to prolong the war at all costs. “It has more than 250,000 dead or injured in its own ranks, more than 10,000 armored vehicles have been destroyed or captured, its supplies are running out, its international reputation is pretty much ruined, and it’s still going strong,” he said Wallace. It is therefore important not only to give Ukraine the means to defend itself, but also to throw Russia out of the country.