Rep. Michael McCaul, the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, believes the Biden administration will lift restrictions on Ukraine’s use of US missiles to allow long-range strikes inside Russian territory, which would mark another significant escalation of the proxy war.
McCaul made the comments ahead of Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s next visit to Ukraine, which will take place on Wednesday. Blinken will be joined by his British counterpart, UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy.
Ukraine has been using US missiles and other weapons in its invasion of Kursk and has been pushing for the use of longer-range capabilities, including Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS), which have a range of about 190 miles and can be fired by the HIMARS rocket systems.
“[Blinken’s] as supportive as I am, and he just said, ‘I have some good news. I’m going to Ukraine with my counterpart from the UK to talk about ATACMS. And what I’ve seen and what I’ve been briefed on, it looks like that’s the message they’re going to give them, that they can use them cross-border,” McCaul said, according to POLITICO.
McCaul joined a group of other senior House Republicans in sending a letter to President Biden on Monday urging US support for long-range strikes. “It is far past time the administration reverses course and lifts the remaining restrictions on Ukraine’s use of US-provided weapons against legitimate military targets in Russia,” the letter reads.
In an interview with Sky News on Tuesday, Blinken said that the administration was not ruling out supporting the long-range strikes. “We never rule out, but when we rule in, we want to make sure it’s done in such a way that it can advance what the Ukrainians are trying to achieve,” Blinken said.
Moscow has warned strongly against the US allowing Ukraine to use NATO weapons to hit targets deep inside Russia and has said it’s working on changing its nuclear doctrine in response to Western escalations in Ukraine.
Will WW3 start in Ukraine, Israel, or Taiwan?
WW3 will likely start in Washington.
Precisely. To "promote democracy, freedom".
No comment. …Just kidding. …I want to tell our politicians about their stupidity. But they are so stupid, they wouldn't understand.
They understand a billion dollars, you got that?
What I don’t get is what is a billion dollars without a world?
They believe they will survive without the peasants.
LOL. You’ve got to see the movie, Triangle of Sadness.
No. Expound.
It’s a movie. LOL. I don’t want to ruin it for you, about the Elites not needing the Peasants. After that movie, Woody Harrelson said: “It’s terrible when a country attacks Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Korea… oh, sorry, Ukraine, for no reason at all.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_of_Sadness
In all likelihood, I will never watch it. I have a bunch stacked up I haven’t gotten to yet.
Understood. In summary, this movie is a summary of everything.
lol
Precisely, Where are they going to spend their billions? Or dock their yachts when harbors glow in the dark. There are idiots that still believe there would be sufficient numbers of survivors. I read the novel On the Beach in on study hall session as a high school senior in 1961. Scared the crap out of me. Now, to think it may actually happen saddens me.
If these people weren’t directing murder and mayhem in government, would they simply have become roving serial killers?
Is there a difference?
No, but one is legal and applauded while the other is seen as fucking deranged.
I get what you're saying but actually there is a difference. The worst serial killers murder dozens of people. The psychos running the world kill in the multi-million range.
I think they'd have become CEO's. Same greed, same sociopathy, as many harmed by policy but fewer killed.
They want blood though. There’s sadism in CEOs but not as much gore.
True, Gore never went Corporate after his political life. Canada’s Right-wing darling former PM Stephen Harper literally left politics the instant a Corporate job was offered him; he was no longer PM but still a sitting MP.
Rep. McCaul needs a mental enema!
”We are living in a nuclear world but I’m not a nuclear girl!”
”Angry red drips from the sky, flowing into shallow graves, where weary eyes in haloed skulls, gaze at mornings dawn…”
These utter bought and paid for fiends want to destroy the world. We have really reached rock bottom when psychopaths like McCaul are making such insane statements. If Trump gets in he must purge the government of these people..
Trump thinks the world of Tom Cotton. So, I have my doubts.
And Lindsey Graham will be so far up Trump’s butt, he’ll be able to reveal what he ate for dinner.
He needs to purge himself for withdrawing from the INF Treaty, and, providing Ukraine with weapons.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/09/no_author/the-u-s-govt-now-definitely-wants-ww3-against-russia/
Of course they will. Why is anyone even asking, as usual? The US will continue pushing Russia until Russia is forced to strike US assets directly. Then the question is: What does the US do? This is how you get WWIII.
Q.E.D.
There are American military assets in Alaska, also the West Coast. If our stupids in D.C. continue on this road, anything can happen.
Russia can change anything they want in their nuclear posture. Two presidents, both Republicans, withdrew the U.S. from two important treaties with Russia; ABM Treaty, INF Treaty. For good measure, Trump pull out of the Open Skies agreement, which had been in force since the Eisenhower administration.