On Wednesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) expressed support for Ukraine using US-provided weapons on Russian territory, a step that would risk a major response from Russia.
Ukraine has been lobbying the US to allow the use of US-provided missile systems on Russian territory in the wake of Russia’s Kharkiv offensive, and the idea is gaining support in Congress.
A group of bipartisan members of the House sent a letter to President Biden on Monday urging him to lift any restrictions on Ukraine’s use of US weapons. “It is essential the Biden administration allows Ukraine’s military leaders to conduct a full spectrum of operations necessary to respond to Russia’s unprovoked attack on their sovereign land,” the lawmakers said.
Johnson was asked if he supported the idea of Ukraine hitting Russian territory with US weapons and replied that the US needs “to allow Ukraine to prosecute the war in the way they see fit.”
“They [Ukraine] need[s] to be able to fight back. And I think us trying to micromanage the effort there is not a good policy for us,” he told Voice of America.
Moscow recently warned the UK that if Ukraine used British weapons on Russian territory, Russian forces would target UK military sites in Ukraine “and beyond.” The warning came after British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said Ukraine had the “right” to use British arms in attacks on Russia.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is asking NATO to take another step that could lead to a catastrophic escalation. In an interview with The New York Times on Tuesday, he pleaded for the Western alliance to shoot down Russian missiles over Ukraine, which would mean direct NATO involvement in the conflict, raising the risk of nuclear war.
Frustration and desperation are dominating among neocons. Everything is developing not as they planned.
This is how the imbeciles who started the Vietnam war got started. Next we need a Tonkin moment
We don’t care. We will go to WWIII just because Nuland wants us to. We are a lot more stupid than when Vietnam started.
What amazes me is how their narcissism compels them to do this and blinds them to such an extent that they believe their own lies.
Sick bastards.
Touché Ole!
Just grabbing a random comment to reply to:
If there’s any slowness in moderation over the next few days, it’s because I’m traveling. At the moment I am sitting in Miami International Airport, en route from Gainesville, Florida to Washington DC. If any of you happen to be at the Libertarian National Convention this weekend, give me a yell so we can have a drink!
I’ll check for comments awaiting approval as often as possible, but not quite as often as when I’m sitting at my desk at home 12-16 hours per day. Sorry for any unduly long waits!
Sure, Ukraine can/should use the weapons as they see fit, barring committing war crimes.
Of course Russia will also be free in responding to providers of weapons to their opponents as they see fit, right …?
What a liar. He knows the U.S. military and the British are involved in the military planning with the Ukies every day. They were the ones who planned the failed offensive last summer. Holding computerized war games with the Ukrainians.
The British operate Ukrainian missiles, British and U.S. satellites track the Russian Donbass defenders, and the British do everything up to the symbolic pushing of the final button, which the Ukrainians get to do.
Just like an article from the other day that stated the US plans on sending ‘special operators’ (or something similarly worded) for weapon systems to Ukraine like it was a ‘new thing’.
They have been there since day 1, not 2022, but 2014, so stop the bull$hit.
And, just like in every other bull$hit, hegemonic ‘endeavor’ started by the Empire, this one has royally f*cked up.
Rest assured, the mouth pieces will spin a narrative to indicate this was always the plan.
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The Ukraine is a NATO proxy, HQ Washington. Zelensky ‘s performing a script delivered to him from HQ. Much the same for the Speaker. The WestExec Neocons have to stage these little melodramas to maintain their fictional narrative. In any case it’s most likely a bluff, coz in the event Russia would destroy them in process of delivery or set-up.
The Speaker is horrible is so many ways. Now he way go up in flames when the nukes he’s provoking for WWIII arrive in DC.
So very true and it is all making me very nervous. I always support peace and have since I was a youngster but now, I feel
at a loss, in terms of how to deal with it. It is hard for me to believe that we could all be so fricking ignorant, yet, here we all are…
‘Arms’ can hit and hug. Take your pick… an endless story, continuously. Let us live and learn.
A group of bipartisan members of the House sent a letter to President Biden on Monday urging him to lift any restrictions on Ukraine’s use of US weapons. “It is essential the Biden administration allows Ukraine’s military leaders to conduct a full spectrum of operations necessary to respond to Russia’s unprovoked attack on their sovereign land,” the lawmakers said.
Encroaching Russia’s borders with a hostile military alliance isn’t a provocation. But fly a weather balloon over the US and these same morons call Biden weak for not responding harshly enough. It’s like calling Iran a “state sponsor of terrorism” while sending $17 billion to a country, Israel, that has no peers when it comes to terrorism.
You mean to say that our civilized societies are not so civilized? MY word sir!
that sumbitch Johnson actually said “I am the new Moses” when he was elected.
I cannot for the life of me understand what kind of dim-wit would have voted for him.
OMG and I thought my representatives were the stupid guys.
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“OMG and I thought my representatives were the stupid guys.” As if it’s a competition for who is most stupid. It’s like being half pregnant, then you’re pregnant. But, if it were a competition: They still are. They all win. We all win. Like Queen said, “We are the Champions!” (of stupidity that is) wut
These people are literally risking our very lives because of their power trips.
Intentional mass depopulation.
These people are literally risking our very lives because of their power trips.
Corruption, stupidity and psychopathology describe the ruling class the politicians are just lackeys.
What happened to the Rule of Law in our country? If Zionist Johnson wants a war with Russia, he needs to do his Constitutional Duty and force a VOTE in Congress. Johnson is NO better than Biden or Netanyahu, a War Criminal who should be arrested. I am beginning to think that Mental Disease is rampant in D.C. They need to check the WATER!
When shot at, nations shoot back. Not at someone else, not somewhere else, but back at the nations and places that shoot at them.
These neocons have a false sense of invulnerability. They think they won’t be killed. They can be shot at.
Perhaps Johnson thinks it would only be in Ukraine, and not the US personnel there. Wrong. Likely to be very wrong. Start a war, and suffer war.
I blame Matt Gaetz for ultimately delivering this Uniparty Skunk Mike Johnson on the American people. Thanks for nothing Matt.
Technically, under the laws of war, strikes inside Russia are perfectly fine. What you don’t do, however, is piss off someone who can utterly destroy your country with their counter-strikes – as Russia has been doing every time the Ukraine morons hit inside Russia.
What this moron doesn’t understand is that he wants to make the US a legitimate target for Russia. Being an ignoramus, he thinks the US military is more powerful than Russia.
It’s not.
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Remember this guy mike? What does his teachings mean to you?
Kinda upside down aint it? This has far more in common with that flipside bad guy,right mike? mike ? mike?
If striking targets “in Russia” mattered, then perhaps they would have a case. But Ukraine is being beaten on the battlefield IN UKRAINE; their troops are crying for more support THERE, not “in the Black Sea”. Killing civilians in Belgorod does NOT help them there; nor does hitting ex-Soviet landing craft in the Black Sea, or trying to hit a bridge that is not used for military traffic.
This is EXACTLY the same motivation as Hitler striking targets with his V-weapons in 1945; just killing and wrecking for the sake of killing and wrecking, while his soldiers continue to lose on the ground. Not a single “V-weapon” strike actually affected the course of the ground war in 1945; not a single “precision weapon strike deep into Russia” will affect the course of the ground war in Ukraine today. EVERY arms delivery of “deep strike precision weaponry” is actually one LESS arms delivery of something the Ukrainian army could actually use in their daily fighting.
Zelensky, meet Hitler. Hopefully, you will ACTUALLY meet him soon. And take Johnson with you.
NATO started and is fighting this war that they have been preparing since 2014 and losing, perhaps there is a God and justice in this world.
God gave freedom to humankind. Responsibility is ours.
US and allies also killed lots and lots of civilians committing horrible war crimes in second world war far surpassing Hitler.
War is a heinous crime and Adolph significantly redefined it, indeed he did.
Some say war is hell and indeed it is!
No one surpassed Nazi Germany in killing the civilians. More than ten million women and children were killed by Nazis only in Soviet Union. They did it purposefully. If not stopped, they would kill much more than that. Nazi genocide policy didn’t concern west-Europeans, only Slavs and other ethnic groups whom they considered non-Europeans. That’s why people in Russia and Israel have different opinion about Nazi Germany than, for example, people in France or England.
The terrorist attacks against civilians in Russia are counterproductive from viewpoint of success in this war.
When Kiev regime used this tactic against civilians in Donbass, there was, at least, a certain logic in this: at that time neocons were struggling to provoke Russia and create a military conflict between Russia and Ukraine, which they achieved in the end. Now the terrorist tactics definitely work against Kiev regime and it’s sponsors. China, India and all the world see what kind of opponents Russia has.
Biden gave him a secret decoder ring. Now he’s the NSA’s useful puppet.
Further: Speaker Johnson thinks, is an oxymoron, as is speaker Johnson.
Incrementally pushing insanity (or stupidity?) to its limits. Do these people think they’re playing a video game?
treasonous lowlife POS mikejohnson and rinos have destroyed republican party. no more vote for genocidal republican uniparty of drumpf and mikejohnson. rat uniparty is no better but worst. so americans’ only choice is revolution. but today’s america is a shithole failed state full of sissies and metro sexual males far inferior than founding generation.
The problem is the US powers to be think they are immune from this. Lets see how that plays out. Russia does not bluff, keep poking that bear and eventually he will swipe. US decision makers are morons.