Analysis: So you say you want a no-fly zone over Ukraine
On Feb. 28, 1994 — 45 years after its founding to contain the USSR — NATO fired its first shots in combat, as two American F-16s downed four Bosnian Serb warplanes that had violated a U.N.-imposed “no-fly zone” over Bosnia.
, a direct war with Russia, a nuclear power, and risk a war that expands even beyond Ukraine to Europe,” Secretary of StateWhat we’re trying to do is end this war in Ukraine, not start a larger oneThe principal argument in Washington and at NATO headquarters against imposing a “no-fly zone” is that it would require the alliance to enforce it,
A “no-fly zone” is generally understood to be a defined geographic area, over which certain aircraft are forbidden to fly. It doesn’t have to be over an entire country. But it does need to be backed up with the use of military force — and
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