The Biden administration is “open” to sending Ukraine long-range air-to-surface cruise missiles amid Ukraine’s offensive in Russia’s Kursk Oblast, POLITICO reported on Thursday.
The Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) has a range of over 230 miles and would become the longest-range weapon the US sends Ukraine if it goes ahead with the delivery.
Sources told POLITICO that no final decision had been made as the Pentagon is trying to figure out if Ukraine’s Soviet-era fighter jets could carry the powerful missile, which weighs 2,400 pounds and has a 1,000-pound warhead.
Ukraine has received a small number of US-made F-16 fighter jets, which can carry the JASSMs. But it’s unclear when the F-16s will be put to use since only a few Ukrainian pilots have been trained.
The US is supporting Ukraine’s invasion of Kursk by allowing it to use US-provided weapons, including armored vehicles. The US still says it’s opposed to supporting long-range strikes in Russia, but it’s unclear what the limit is. Ukraine is pushing for the US to lift all restrictions on its use of US weapons.
The US insists it was not aware of Ukraine’s plans to launch a ground invasion of Kursk, but President Biden said on Tuesday that US officials have been in “constant contact” with the Ukrainians about the assault.
The entire Kursk incursion was designed and led by the US and NATO allies.
Which is why it's such a dismal failure. As will anything else the US tries, including these missiles.
Meanwhile Russia is likely now to take the gloves off, call the entire conflict a "counter-terrorism operation" and just kill everything (military) in their path to Kiev. No more prisoners except for battlefield intelligence purposes.
If they treat the Ukrainians like Chechens, it’ll be over in a few months.
Thadt be bad
Chechens were saved by traditional Islam and their religious leader Akhmat Kadyrov. Religious motivation is stronger in Chechnya than in Ukraine.
At the first stage of Chechen conflict, the main motivation was the radical nationalism (after the collapse of USSR, it became very strong in all ethnic republics). Later, as the conflict became internationalized, and a lot of Arab Wahhabi militants joined in, Wahhabi ideology became dominating. Then many separatists understood that independent Chechnya (Ichkeria) can't be anything else but Wahhabi terrorist state (which U.S. encouraged very much), and they united around Akhmat Kadyrov. Of course, without a strong support from Putin, Kadyrov couldn't succeed.
Wahhabi is just powerful due to Saudi money, and I want to say Israel/US influence finds it useful.
Islam needn’t be so extreme.
Yes, U.S. Israel and Saudis were long time acting as one team against Muslims and Christians. Now, as Saudi Arabia became member of BRICS, the situation is changing. BRICS doesn't like the interference in other countries internal politics. Wahhabism, as any other branch of religion, can be changing with time. It depends on priorities of their elite.
Very good point about Wahhabi changing. There are always factions; and institutions, leaders, elites, traditions, etc. change. Everything changes with time.
This is a very conservative and probably a rather pagan view that things are always changing. So, life can be circular as opposed to forward moving. And violent revolution can often be unnecessary for change.
The life of the humankind is circular in a way that as humans got the freedom of choice, they often divert from laws of God (laws of Nature, if you like), so after some time Nature turn them back to the normal. If they divert hopelessly too far, they don't survive; the story about exterminated Sodom and Gomorrah is about that.
On the other hand, in what does concern the evolution the human kind, and also the evolution of the science, it is a forward moving. Though eventually some technologies could be lost, they always are replaced by something even better.
Now we got to a situation when the human free choice can decide whether we will continue along the road of the evolution as prescribed by God, or The Evil destroy and interrupt everything.
Well, as tech understanding improves, both good and bad tend to result. The usual example is nuclear weapons came with nuclear electrical power.
So, we might see things turn circular in that biotech or another tech end everything.
I’m just arguing for the sake of arguing. You wrote an excellent comment.
I’m uncertain God truly desires greater understanding. He wasn’t happy with Adam and Eve. With biotech, man can largely replace God. The Amish (Luddites) might be closer to the correct path.
It is highly possible that once the truth is exposed behind the owner/operators of the very real UFO's, UAP's. USO's, that all of our faith systems and beliefs will be rocked to the core! I believe this is part of the reason the USA GHOULS are pushing so hard to start a WWW-3 with Russia and China and Iran, at least part of the reason, a big part. I base this statement on decades of research and study on this topic and I will be just as rocked as everyone else will be. As Lue Elizondo has said, "We are not at the top of the food chain".
"all of our faith systems and beliefs will be rocked to the core" – why? How the existence of UFO, or, existence of intellectually developed creatures somewhere on other planets can rock our beliefs? On the contrary, it is highly likely that they do exist. It has nothing to do with the belief in God the creator of everything.
That may not be the case, I believe it will rock faith systems, time will tell, but the Gov. is so afraid of something that they, those GHOULS, are willing to destroy people to keep it hidden. The fact is the truth will find it's way to the public, one way or the other, and rather soon. BTW, they, the Others, are not just on "other planets", they are HERE. 🙂 🙁
Blah blah blah blah fucking blah.
“Of course, without a strong support from Putin, Kadyrov couldn’t succeed.”
True — no satrap can succeed without the support of his imperial masters.
In your Orwellian world, Islam and Christianity are bad, LGBT with every kind of Sodomy is good.
My god (pun intended) your obsession with sodomy leaves me wondering…..
In my non-Orwellian word, neither Islam nor Christianity are bad.
Not even your perverted/heretical version of Christianity, which seems to be mostly about Russian chauvinism and homophobia rather than about, you know, Christ.
Thomas, please explain your stance on this subject brought up by Mikhailovich, I think many want to know more. You have said things in the past that left me wondering. 🙂
My stance on what subject?
"your perverted/heretical version" – Christianity condemns homosexual relationship. It is not my version; it is traditional Christianity.
I think it is very good that Russia with support of Chechen people annihilated the Wahhabi terrorist state Ichkeria.
What is particular chauvinistic about that? I see, the annihilation of Ichkeria made you unhappy, and I can guess why.
What do you mean by "homophobia"? I have no phobias about homosexualism. I don't mind them to do what they wish in their private flats but I don't see anything good in promoting their sick ideas among children, and I am glad that it is forbidden in many states.
"It is not my version; it is traditional Christianity."
Traditional Christianity is called "Judaism," which is what Jesus taught before the heretic Paul paganized it.
You can find condemnations of Sodomy in both New Testament and Old Testament, and in Quran too. The sex was created by God for the continuation of life. There is female and male. Anything else is abnormal, the same as abnormal are other mental and physical disorders. Any healthy person knows instinctively that it is wrong. As I said before, it is also wrong to persecute people affected by it but to make a cult of it and force it upon normal children is a crime against humanity.
You seem to have convinced yourself that I have some special personal interest in homosexuality and/or “LGBT” matters.
I don’t.
You’re quite obviously obsessed with the subject, though.
I can find lots of things in the New Testament and Old Testament. It doesn’t follow that “Christianity” is defined in terms of my obsession with one of those things.
Of course you have personal interest in homosexuality. All your comments are about that. Putin is a "dictator" and Kadyrov is "satrap" because they don't allow the "gay parades". What else you have against them? Or you are really supporting the terrorism for terrorism sake?
I don’t recall that I’ve ever mentioned “gay parades” except when responding to your obsession with them.
I also don’t recall describing Putin as a “dictator.” In fact, I usually note that he’s just a figurehead for the oligarchs who installed and maintain him, serving at their pleasure and diligently carrying out their orders.
I suppose it might be more accurate to describe Kadyrov as a “quisling” than as a “satrap.” He rules a conquered country on behalf of its imperial conquerors..
You called him in your comment above "imperial master", not a dictator. Imperial master is not a dictator? Or you mean Kadyrov is taking orders from many heads of state?
By the way, what Kadyrov and his father did wrong? Why you are feeling so negative about them? (neocons hates them too; what a coincidence).
"your obsession" – it is not my obsession, it is your government who organized the boycott of Sochi Olympic Games in 2014 before the military escalation in Donbass. The pretext was alleged persecution of homosexuals in Russia. Actually they are not persecuted; they only not allowed to have "gay parades". If it not the reason of your hatred toward Russia, then what is it?
Kadyrov is taking orders from the Russian state. Like Joe Biden in the US, Putin is a figurehead rather than a sole decisionmaker (dictator).
Where did I say Kadyrov did anything “wrong?” I just noted that he is a satrap/quisling, ruling a conquered colony on behalf of an empire. Whether that’s the “right” or “wrong” thing to do is irrelevant to the fact that it is what it is.
I don’t have a government, nor do I harbor any hatred toward Russia.
The elections in Chechnya are more democratic than elections in U.S.. Chechen people massively support Kadyrov. It looks, you have no other information except from the corporate media which turns everything upside down in what does concern Russia. The same about Putin. He is democratically elected leader of Russian nation and he is enjoying overwhelming support all years of his rule. At the moment he has over 80% support because he is doing exactly what people expect him to do. That is how the democracy should work.
Imperial masters are sitting not in Russia but in U.S.. They manipulating mass media and electoral process. That's why it doesn't matter how people vote, the government is always working for 1% superrich and ignoring the interests of ordinary American people.
Imperial masters are sitting in Russia and the US, manipulating mass media and electoral process.
The difference between you and me is that you fell for one of the manipulators.
The difference is that you have no clue what happens in Russia and Ukraine, so you just repeating the corporate media anti-Russian propaganda while my opinion is always based on facts.
"Both are the same" is a false statement. The aggression comes from American imperialism. It is U.S. who unilaterally destroyed all agreements achieved in time of Gorbachev and Yeltsin. Putin did everything possible to prevent the war. Neither Russia nor China are interested in wars and warmongering, it is always American militarists who are sabotaging peace deals and promoting warmongering and hatred.
Feel free to cite a single piece of “corporate media anti-Russian propaganda” I’m “repeating.”
“Both are the same” is true of any pairing involving Putin, Biden, Zelensky, Trudeau, Starmer, Macron, Xi, Khamenei, KSM, Obrador, Maduro, Milei, Kim, Nguyen, Modi, et al.
It’s most particularly true of Biden and Putin just because they happen to be strapped on top of the machinery of declining empires rather than of non-imperial states or not yet peaking imperial states.
True, but if a small power lives next door to a great power, it makes sense to be on friendly terms with its neighbor.
Just ask Canada. Or Mexico.
Well, NATO could use another Dieppe Raid to work out some kinks in planning real-life invasions of the Russian Federation. And Ukrainian infantry seem cheap and plentiful, drawing from a captive domestic source.
Its not a dismal failed my guy only you guys could try and spin it that way
If Russians will carry on at the same tempo, it is good enough. The offensive in Pokrovsk-Pavlograd-Dniepr river direction looks the easiest way to the victory. Of course, it is important to keep the pressure in all frontline. After Kursk gamble, Ukrainian problem with the manpower will accelerate.
When the time comes NATO troops will intervene and Putin will do nothing but make empty threats. NATO and the USA are very clear, they will own Russia and then China will do as told, USA and the GHOULS will indeed rule the world as they see fit, what a NIGHTMARE!
Okay, when the time comes, we will see.
Russia will get forces in place to surround them so whether the Ukrainian forces go forward or back towards Ukraine, they will be destroyed in either case.
I am not impressed with the Russian military or their leaders. So I really am not sure what will happen unless Russia gets very aggressive and comes to grips with the fact that the USA and NATO plan on grinding them into dust, it will be the end of Russia. Putin has allowed so many red lines to be crossed he has almost lost all credibility. Soon NATO could decide to do an all out conventional attack against Russia and in 6 months the DC GHOULS would be sitting in Putin's Moskow office. Remember Ali VS. Big George and the Rope a Dope………
Most likely, they plan to use those missiles for Kursk nuclear power plant and Crimean bridge. Neocons badly need a success story before the elections.
Mmm. I wonder now if the plan isn't to irradiate Russian Federation territory. A weaponised Chernobyl, as it were.
It isn't so easy to achieve.
Supposedly, the nuclear plant is well designed, resistant to meltdowns. I guess the bridge doesn’t matter if Russia keeps its new territory, redundant and expensive.
Cuz Chernobyl was resistant to meltowns
It’s designed exactly like Chernobyl but with major upgrades to prevent the same thing happening there.
Interesting
RT had an article on it recently. That’s how I know this stuff. RT is surprisingly informative.
Agree completely.
RT? Now I’ve heard it all
Do you know what resistant means? Perhaps you're fishing for impervious.
The bridge is more vulnerable than nuclear power plants. Probably they can damage it. However it is repairable.
Going by past performance, they're probably already there.
Voila!
The Empire does not want peace, yet. For now, the Empire has orchestrated a successful counter-offensive, but unfortunately not along the 1000km front. Took them a while, didn't it? It will be interesting to see the pending Russian response. Hoping not, but I foresee a Bakhmut scenario.
The following narrative has been shoveled to the sheep repeatedly and the audacity of it makes me laugh, and not in a fun way.
"The US insists it was not aware of Ukraine’s plans to launch a ground invasion of Kursk, but President Biden said on Tuesday that US officials have been in “constant contact” with the Ukrainians about the assault."
Two words come to mind.
F*ck off.
Does it occur to these geniuses that if NATO/Ukraine did damage the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant and release radioactive material the Russians might consider this to be a nuclear attack on Russia?
My guess is…no.
I suspect that NATUkrainian leadership knows how much they can damage a NPP to disable it as an electricity-generating facility but not breach the fuel-containment or break the critical cooling systems.
And therefore trusts their goose-stepping Suicide Squad (or "SS" for short) commandoes pushing into Kursk to follow instructions.
Perhaps. But I don’t think the Russians have targeted the 3 nuclear remaining in the hands of the Kiev government. On the other hand, the Armed Forces of Ukraine HAVE targeted the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant AND now Kursk Nuclear Power Plant.
It seems that the Russians may think that a catastrophic event could result from bombing a NPP. A number of nuclear scientists think that blowing up a NPP is a bad idea.
lemme rephrase that for you
Does it occur to these geniuses (sic) that if Russia did damage (to) the Zapororizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant and release radioactive materials that NATO and Ukraine might consider this to be a nuclear attack against Ukraine?
Since no one who has working brain cells believes that Russia would attack a nuclear power plant that they control this reply is another non sequitur.
In case you don’t know what a non sequitur is:
A non sequitur “is a conversational literary device, often used for comedic purposes. It is something said that, because of its apparent lack of meaning relative to what preceded it, seems absurd to the point of being humorous or confusing. This use of the term is distinct from the non sequitur in logic, where it is a fallacy.”
you dont beloieve they would/
beloieve?
sic
Yeah, it's like, "Hey, we're not in a world war yet so let's escalate up another step and see what happens."
It's like those 1940s atomic physicists at Los Alamos nudging little plutonium blocks together to see how close they could get to a chain reaction without actually setting it off.
It was a kind of sport. They called it, "Tickling the dragon's tail."
And that's what the US is doing here and now.
Risking the world to preserve an empire.
Oh, the Demon Core is SUCH a wonderful story. YouTuber Kyle Hill does a great video on it for those interested !
https://youtu.be/aFlromB6SnU?si=fimTjMvHNyygijtK
Hill's other videos on radioactive mishaps are equally excellent and compelling.
Douglas Macgregor
@DougAMacgregor
BREAKING: 82 days before the US election, The World Health Organization (WHO) declares monkey pox a global health emergency.
Douglas Macgregor
@DougAMacgregor
Ukraine breaching a soft spot in Russia's border was likely carried out based on US intelligence.
This was a done to create the illusion they are making progress so the DC warmongers will send them more money..
Make Peace You Fools!
Lame duck president Joe Biden wants to provoke a world war before leaving office next January. What a legacy!
It's one way to make himself the last president, ever.
We should just suck it to the man
The US insists it was not aware of Ukraine’s plans to launch a ground invasion of Kursk, but President Biden said on Tuesday that US officials have been in “constant contact” with the Ukrainians about the assault.
You cannot have and eat your lunch at the same time…!
Joey Biden doesn't know what day of the week it is or even what planet he is on.
Sad and very dangerous time in the history of America when unelected sycophant facist NEOCONs have control of the nuclear football.
Bloody well said!
"BLOODY?"
Can we tape him to the first one? I'd suggest gorilla tape.
The only thing Joe Biden the human, what's left of him, might mull is what flavor his Ensure drink is. "Biden" meaning the administration i.e. cabal of wingnuts behind the facade of the enfeebled old war criminal representing Delaware banks might 'mull' something.