Secretary of State Antony Blinken is leading a push within the Biden administration to allow Ukraine to use US-provided missile systems and other weapons to hit Russian territory, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.
The report said there is a “vigorous debate” within the administration in the wake of Russia’s new offensive in Kharkiv, which was launched from over the border in Russia’s Belgorod oblast.
It’s unclear how many other high-level officials agree with Blinken, but the pressure is growing on President Biden to lift the prohibition on Ukraine using US weapons on Russian territory, a ban that, according to the Times, is designed to “avoid World War III.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and many other members of Congress are also calling to lift the ban. Ultra-hawk Victoria Nuland, who left the State Department in March, appeared on ABC News this week to make the pitch for Ukraine to extend its use of US weapons to Russian territory.
“I think there’s also a question of whether we, the United States and our allies, ought to give them more help in hitting Russian bases, which heretofore we have not been willing to do,” Nuland said.
“I think if the attacks are coming directly from over the line in Russia, that those bases ought to be fair game, whether they are where missiles are being launched from or where they are where troops are being supplied from,” she added.
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.
Russia is currently conducting tactical nuclear drills that it launched in response to provocative rhetoric from Western officials about sending troops to Ukraine. The Times report said that the US was also considering deploying troops for training, although Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown said there were “no plans” to do so at the moment.
Tap dancing on the brink of thermonuclear Armageddon.
Yes, fools all. While the U.S. is about 99% to blame for this war, Russia’s saber-rattling with nukes should also be condemned.
True. But it is just another reaction. Like the invasion was to that 99% you speak of.
What fools, who believe because they enjoy the illusion that being 3000 miles from the current scene of war that their personal cones of silence will shelter them from nukes. And of course their idiocy will take all of us with them.
It needn’t be nukes. Conventional hypersonics from a sub into Newport News could wreck a couple of nuclear powered carriers there, and much else.
That would be tit-for-tat, Sevastopol for Norfolk.
It’s not like Ukraine bought American long-range missiles and the USA has restricted their use. The CIA tells Z to demand American missiles provided at no cost, shipped to Ukraine by the USA, prepared and fired by American contractors using intel provided by the CIA to hit targets in Russia that have little involvement in the war.
Blinken together with the rest of Zionists and neocons “is leading the push”.
Of course, in time of war, Russian bases are a fair game (the same as American bases). The only question is: do we really want such a war?
Our “leaders” prefer such a war over a massive financial collapse with their fingerprints on it.
I don’t see how the war can save them from financial meltdown, but, probably, you are right: the escalation is unavoidable.
A nuclear exchange guarantees financial collapse.
Ukraine missiles into Russia is really just high tech terrorism. The missiles have no affect on the war effort but serve to terrorize the population.
Russia will respond by leveling cities supporting the weapons transfers and utilization.
Really it is a question of how stupid Ukraine is.
Blinkin shows himself to be just another ordinary common Israeli terrorist.
It seems to me that Blinken still thinks that the goal of this war is to weaken Russia. He wants Ukraine to fight until the last Ukrainian is dead, and has somehow convinced Ukraine’s leadership that continuing the war is worth the cost.
The compliance of Ukraine’s leadership with this neo-con agenda must surely be grounded in personal benefit. No legitimate leader could look at this war and still believe that Ukraine can reasonably survive. Millions have fled, and will never return. There isn’t enough domestic revenue to keep the government running. Over half a million soldiers have died, and Zelensky has been reduced to conscripting criminals and the homeless.
May the people of Taiwan, the Philippines, and other countries who might be of use to this administration in its determination to prevent multi-polarity pay attention:
𝙔𝙤𝙪❜𝙧𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙭𝙩, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙞𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙪𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙙.
Agreed, except: Their leaders are already corrupted and they didn’t have the power to allow or deny them to be.
Ukraine was corrupt before the coup.
What do you mean “still thinks”? That’s the purpose of the war, to increase U.S. global hegemony by weakening Russia.
I was hoping that some concern for the people of Ukraine might have found its way into his black heart.
Actually “regime change” publicly and repeatedly admitted ever since Biden let it slip saying “Putin must go”
Russia needs to give Mexico the same weapons as America is giving Ukraine.
Dock in Venezuela again. Then dock in Cuba.
What good would that do? In addition to increasing these horrible weapons around the world, Mexico is an ally of the U.S., despite its current administration’s disagreements with some U.S. policies.
The fish rots from the head.
Our fate is sealed: Nuclear WAR. …Why? …Well, Zelensky doesn’t give a rat’s a$$ about Ukraine and will push Russia to use nuclear weapons. The West thinks they can win a nuclear war with Russia. There is only one way to find out but I really hope I’m gone before I find out.
Looking at the map of Russia, there’s no way.
Reading the History of attacks on Russia, there’s no way
No one with any sense thinks that anyone can win a nuclear war. The ruling class, which is behind all this crap, just doesn’t care. They’ve built underground bunkers for themselves and think they can live there indefinitely. The rest of us might be better off dead.
Agreed.
Once more our top diplomat practicing diplomacy.
When you elect a demented crook to be President don’t be surprised when it comes back to bite you in the form of a mushroom cloud. DC has no problem sacrificing your life for their agenda
What we may be seeing here is the opposite side of the coin of escalation dominance. In such cases, there is nothing to lose and so any action is justified, including slipping a nuke to an enraged, hate-filled, raving, defeated ally.
C Q Brown told us previously that “eventually we’ll get there”. Pretty clear there’s a master script. It may be (1) a bluff to get Putin to ease the terms of surrender, (2) they’re actually willing to burn the west europe members, or (3) … ??
A nuclear war will be a catastrophe for the human race, but perhaps in the balance, a blessing for sentient life throughout the rest of the universe.
The cockroaches look forward to it.
Nuland and Blinken have one thing in common; they both are Israel-Firsters
When Blinken says this, just exactly what Russian response does he imagine?
Is that what he really wants?
He can’t “save Ukraine” without NATO direct intervention, and he can’t do that unless he can induce Russia to “attack first.” So he pokes and pokes and pokes. He provokes, just as he originally so deliberately provoked this war.
“Victoria Nuland, who left the State Department…appeared on ABC news this week to make the pitch for Ukraine to extend its use of US weapons to Russian territory.”
Nuland’s unscheduled visitation – which followed months of ritual murder and goat entrails defiling church altars with the sign of the Beast – was shrieked from a fiery sulphureous pit that abruptly materialized in the ABC studios floor.
Over screams of the Damned, Nuland commanded her “subjects” to sacrifice their first born and vote for the “Final Solution Bill” to speed “the Master’s return.”
A coalition of Democrats and Republicans praised Nuland’s policy prescription as “realistic,” “balanced” and “much needed to halt the imminent threat of Russian world domination.”
As I said before, attacking inside Russia is logical under the rules of war. However, it’s dumb to piss off an enemy who can obliterate you if they get pissed off enough. And as I also said, Blinken is looking to get a (non-nuclear) Zircon on his head if he doesn’t shut up. The same for Nuland.
It is as “logical” (and unreasonable) as would be Russia giving Syria long range missiles to bomb US cities.
I suggest Blinkey (as in spoiled milk) put on the gear, field a weapon and stand the post in Ukraine. Let him walk point. F*ck him.
Russia would respond by attacking US interests throughout Europe…!
Antony Blinken is a warmonger neocon. He has not one ounce of diplomacy. What is he doing at the State Department?
Blinken is a self-admitted protege and admirer of Mad Albright. Blinken was the National Security Advisor under Obama & Biden during the 2014 US coup which overthrew the elected government of Ukraine.
It’s not only Biden and Blinken.
There seems to be a concerted effort to poke the Russian bear to provoke a larger war, possibly a nuclear war.
In the last few weeks, indeed, there have been statements by Zelensky (Ukraine), Sunak (UK), Macron (France) and Stoltenberg (NATO) supporting the crazy idea of allowing US, UK and NATO long-range missiles be used to bomb Russian territory.
Why? A serious economic recession is expected next year, and these clueless politicians want to save their political skin by going to war.
How many people do these warmongers want to kill and how many cities do they want to destroy to keep their miserable jobs?
They’re ramping up their rhetoric because the Ukrainians are losing despite the shitload of weaponry and cash for corrupt actors handed over during the past two years.
The western cabal is the guy who thinks more of the same constitutes innovation.
Intense global warming followed by a nuclear winter is the outcome of the the foolish ignorant Washington sycophants.
At least Washington will go first. Dubious satisfaction!
Air drop this useless piece of excrement into the combat zone.
The Empire’s pride is wounded – thus it is at it’s most dangerous.
For us all.
Diplomats are supposed ot be agents of keeping the peace and preventing wars. From the looks of the recent crew of Secretaies of State the past 12 years you would think a diplomat is an agent provacateur.