One of the highly classified Pentagon documents that surfaced online suggests that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky would use long-range weapons provided by the US to strike Russian territory, CNN has reported.
The document, a US intelligence report, says that Zelensky “suggested striking Russian deployment locations in Russia’s Rostov Oblast” using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) because Kyiv does not possess long-range weapons capable of hitting targets that far.
According to NBC News, the document said Zelensky “expressed concern” that Kyiv didn’t possess long-range weapons to hit Russian targets in Rostov during a conversation with Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Valeriy Zaluzhny and another unnamed official.
The document also reveals that the US has been spying on Zelensky as it is sourced to signals intelligence, which means information obtained by intercepting communications.
Ukrainian officials have been demanding that the US provide Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMs), missiles with a range of up to 190 miles. The longest-range artillery munition the US has provided so far is the Ground Launched Small Diameter Bomb (GLSDB), which can hit targets up to 94 miles away.
Ukrainian officials have insisted they wouldn’t use the ATACMs to target Russian territory, but the leak suggests otherwise. Hawks in Congress have been urging the Biden administration to send the ATACMs to Ukraine despite the risk of a major Russian escalation in response to advanced US arms being used to hit Russian territory.
Whether or not Zelensky can hit the broad side of a barn, is not my concern. My concern is whether or not he hits anything that’s Russian. I wish Ukraine the very best but, I’m not prepared to go to war with RUSSIA for Ukraine or anybody else for that matter.
So Russia can hit Ukraine at will but Ukraine is not allowed to fight back?
Hi DJ:
Ukraine can most certainly fight back. I’m just not prepared to go to war over it…
They are allowed to fight back. But only as much as Washington wants them to. How many times do they have to say that they don’t want a direct war with Russia before Ukraine comes to their senses and realizes they are being used as cannon fodder?
No, it means we are faced with real war and adult choices, while being infantalized by our government and media.
If we continue to escalate, eventually we will kill ourselves and everything. So we must stop escalating. We must end our involvement.
Children don’t understand that kind of hard choice: to save the world and billions of people, we must fail to be the world’s police, we must give up on a tidy narrative where good triumphs (whatever good is in this situation). Children want to punish bad guys and save the day, but that route isn’t open to us.
Please stop helping out government train us to think and react like children.
Wash. policy started this war and continues it with no regard for the ones who are dying for the mess created by the war mongering US politicians who only care about their MIC campaign funds.
Breaking news now: US/UK Forces are in Ukraine. A bigger war has just become a distinct possibility.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65245065
Word of the day: Vaporize.
volatilize
“Ukrainian officials have been demanding that the US provide Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMs), missiles with a range of up to 190 miles.”
“Ukrainian officials have insisted they wouldn’t use the ATACMs to target Russian territory, but the leak suggests otherwise.”
Actually, common sense says otherwise. Why would you want them for any other reason?
Kerch bridge hit it on the Ukrainian side of the mid span border.
Yes. Poorly thought out comment on my part. Let’s say I’m still skeptical they don’t want them to mainly shoot into Russia. There are only so many ways to get this into a direct confrontation.
“Hawks in Congress have been urging the Biden administration to send the
ATACMs to Ukraine despite the risk of a major Russian escalation in
response to advanced US arms being used to hit Russian territory.”From their cozy little offices these hawks can decide the fate of Ukraine and the world. Talk about chutzpah.
Vote them all out.
The system is too corrupt to make a difference. The new gov. would just continue the same policies because that’s how the system works. Those who are most qualified to lead are too smart to want the job; they know they couldn’t make a difference.
Well, to a large extent I do agree. But voting for the other crook is the only voice we have.
Voting for lesser evils is still voting for evil.
Yeah well between us, I voted for Jill Stein. And I think I was attacked by locals for it. I suddenly had a nuisance neighbor move in with Pro Life and GOP stickers move in with a crazy son ex MMA fighter that started disturbing and harrassing me. I soon learned the mother worked at the county court house for 30 years for a judge. And her son had a record longer than our consitution, but somehow always had the charges dropped. After I was attacked in broad daylight, arrested for fighting when I had video of him attacking me and me just defending myself, and ultimately, 3 lawyers later after the first 2 dropped me, had to drop my charges and plea out of it to save face and a criminal record.
And yes, I moved. And yes, it cost me a lot of money. And yes they moved out months later.
Trying to make sense out of a collective psychosis in world governments is useless. Don’t believe anything coming out of any news source. All media sources just report what they’ve been told, and then they spin the report towards the media corps. official biases. Objective reporting is no longer policy in the MSM. MSM, Wash., Wall St., and the MIC are all linked to continue the current policy which will eventually lead to WWIII unless things turn around quickly.
He’s been whining about his lack of capabilities from the start.
To hear that one of the great secrets that were revealed is him doing so and that we are spying on Victoria Nuland’s man is almost comical.
Those are secrets?
Nope, I’m sure there are much better secrets that don’t match up with the official narrative, that the media is holding back
These so-called “secrets” are of the no Schiff, Sherlock sort.
I kind of avoid the western press on this war; too much is going on in the world to be only reading/seeing establishment narratives.
More confirmations that our nation is going insane, monitoring it’s friends and citizens, screwing over allies in an incompetent and chaotic international thrashing. Great. We can watch everyone ignore it, or organize protests they will just categorize as “alt-right” and “like Jan 6”.
They are getting desparate and this reckless. Russia is driving them mad. They know full well that Russia is not making much on an effort and spreading info of Rusdia’s losses.