Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, confirmed to The Associated Press on Wednesday that Ukraine has used US-provided weapons to carry out strikes on Russian territory, which risks a major response from Russia.
The report also cited an unnamed Western official who said Ukraine used US weapons on Russian territory. The report didn’t specify what type of weapons system was used, but it came after a Ukrainian lawmaker claimed US-provided HIMARS rocket systems destroyed Russian S-300 and S-400 air defense missiles inside Russia’s Belgorod Oblast.
A Ukrainian official also told The Wall Street Journal that HIMARS were used to hit a Russian air defense system in Belgorod. The HIMARS systems require US intelligence for targeting, meaning any HIMARS strike on Russian territory would have been directly supported by the US.
There’s been no official confirmation from Russia about the strikes, but Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday issued a fresh warning to the US and other NATO countries about the use of their weapons on Russian territory.
“If someone thinks it is possible to supply such weapons to a warzone to attack our territory and create problems for us, why don’t we have the right to supply weapons of the same class to regions of the world where there will be strikes on sensitive facilities of those (Western) countries,” Putin said, according to AFP. “That is, the response can be asymmetric. We will think about it.”
Putin has previously warned of “serious consequences” for any NATO countries that support Ukrainian strikes on Russian territories. But NATO officials have shrugged off the Russian warnings despite the risk of provoking a direct clash with Russia, which could quickly turn nuclear.
The Mongol conquests killed millions, they didn’t feel the need of statesmen either.
Sad for my grandchildren!
When the Bear runs out of Patience an extinction Level Event called World War III becomes imminent!
Larry Johnson is a retired American CIA analyst who is down right scared by the way America and NATO are provoking war.
So now we have a better idea as to what reaction/retaliation there actually is likely to be from the Russians:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-06/putin-warns-russie-could-provide-weapons-to-strike-west/103944466
No surprise it is not suicidal nuclear strikes in neither NATO countries nor in Ukraine – or in other words 'the sky is still not falling'.
This is a measured and very proportionate response and one that if carried out likely would make the western hawks less likely to start military interventions without much better reasoning and justification.
So if carried out wisely it could make this world a less violent place – if done poorly like supplying e.g. the Houthis then it unfortunately is likely to make the people of Yemen suffer much more.
I.e. give these weapons to nations under threat of invasion or already in war with the west – but not suicidal ones – and they can increase the cost for the west of such military meddling.
Give it to suicidal ones like the Houthis and it will be the reason that the west decides to invade though they otherwise would not do so.
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SheThey doesn't say how long to "stay inside." My thoughts are we will "stay inside" as and 'til we die. Thanks a lot.4. And then kiss your ass goodbye.
How? You are young and flexible. I’m likely to snap my spine in half. Seriously though. I don’t really know what to do during those 60 minutes or so other than call my kids/grandkids and apologize for bringing them into this stupid world.
Can someone explain why NATO has chosen this ignorant path to ww3? It just seems so obvious, so agressive and ridiculously misguided. Is this the religious fanaticism in Washington d.c., acting like armageddon is actually a legitimate government policy? Painfully ignorant to behold.
Unless Russia can be provoked into a war, there is absolutely no need or justification for NATO which should have been junked along with the Iron Curtain.
Your claim likely was that Russia was provoked into war with Ukraine to protect Russian speaking people living in Ukraine – there are Russian speaking people in the Baltic countries too.
Russia also was 'provoked' into war with Georgia – in short there is very much the desire for a defensive alliance against a nation that its neighbors feel is all too easily provoked into war.
Let's be factual here. Georgia started the conflict with Russia, by targeting Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Russia has done nothing regarding "war" with the Baltics; rather it is the Baltics intense Russophobia that is the problem here; not the other way around.
Russia was indeed provoked into war in Ukraine, not just by the neo-NZs continual violation of the Minsk accords, but by their insistence on joining NATO, which Russia identified decades ago as a clear threat to their security – just like the USA identified Russian missiles in Cuba as a threat to our security.
“Georgia started the conflict with Russia, by targeting Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh.”
I think you mean South Ossetia/Abkhazia.
Let's say that your claim were true, that would not change the notion among Russia's neighbors that it is too easily provoked into military action.
You only enforced the attraction of NATO with this:
If the Baltics were not in NATO they would have been much easier to bully over what you label Russophobia, as it is they are fairly free to pursue policies that do not conflict with their EU obligations regarding non discrimination.
You don’t have to “say” it’s true, it is true; with one exception, the attack by Georgia on Russian peacekeepers was in Ossetia, not Nagorno-Karabakh, my bad.
The Baltics are full of neo-NZs; Latvia and Estonia both still “honor” their volunteers that fought in SS divisions (15th and 19th SS, both Latvian; and 20th SS, Estonian), all three of which had records of atrocities, not just against the Soviets, but in the transport and murder of jews. Stalin was an odious, murderous tyrant, and he paid them back ten-fold after the war; but now, the ethnic Latvians and Estonians aim to pay the ethnic Russian populations back in kind for something that they never did. If Russia is “bullying” them, it’s to stop that from happening. And yes, murder and discrimination against one’s citizens simply because of their ethnic origins IS “provocative”.
Exactly! There was no excuse for continuing NATO after the Soviet Union disbanded. The reason it continued was to make money for U.S. arms manufacturers, and it quickly became an offensive military force.
For all the Chicken littles this is the climb down from the nuclear war scenario predicted by so many as the Russian response to this action.
Enjoy your summer,might not get another one till after Nuclear winter and that will Last a few years at least, but most of us will be DEAD ANYWAY,right?
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Which power is it that you think that the Russians will supply weapons to, which will then proceed to somehow start WWIII by firing conventional rockets at the US or some other NATO partner?
Russia will now supply weapons to any country fighting America.
Good job Joey Biden the blood of more American troops is on your hands.
p.s. STOLEN VALOR – Your son Beau did not die in combat he died in Delaware where he was a golden boy lawyer!
I just saw an interview with Scott Ritter from a few days ago. Truly terrifying. We're getting really close to nuclear annihilation folks. As Ritter said, all it takes is one bad mistake. Russia is not going to stand for their early defense system to be hit, and they'll retaliate if it is, most likely with nukes.
World leaders are psychopaths, and the worst of them are the U.S. leaders. The Ukraine war should never have happened in the first place, and it's 90-99% the fault of the U.S. Meanwhile, brainwashed fools are crying about what Trump might do if he gets elected. There should be a million people in Central Park like there was to protest against nuclear weapons when Reagan was in office, but instead, nothing. I never give up hope, but this is getting as scary as the Cuban Missile Crisis when the world was almost destroyed by nuclear war.
Four Russian warships are arriving in Cuba on June 12. Supposedly none of them are carrying nuclear weapons – however, they ARE LOADED with Zircon and other vertical launch missile tubes. Andrei Martyanov has details:
Zircons Paying A Visit..
… no, not Cuba and Venezuela only. This is the message.
https://smoothiex12.blogspo…
Many politicians are currently in France to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the June 6, 1944 D-Day invasion in Normandy, which led to the end of WWII in Europe.
What those politicians should understand is that WWII was provoked by Hitler and its Nazi government when it attacked Poland in September 1939.
There all lessons to be learnt here.
1- The country which starts a war is not necessarily the one who ends it.
2- The Biden administration has pursued a policy of provocation against Russia, since 2021, in preventing a diplomatic solution to the border conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
It has recently supplied the Zelensky regime with weapons of aggression to directly attack the Russian territory. An act of war.
As the article makes it clear, “the HIMARS systems require US intelligence for targeting, meaning any HIMARS strike on Russian territory would have been directly supported by the US.“
Is the Biden administration planning to provoke a war against Russia, possibly before the November election, which could easily ballooned into a nuclear world war? Is this its intention?
If yes, this is a most reckless, misguided and irresponsible policy for which it will have to accept responsibility for the consequences.