Russia’s ambassador in the US has said he expects the Biden administration to soon lift restrictions on Ukraine’s use of US-provided weapons to support long-range strikes on Russian territory.
“The current administration behaves like a person who extends one hand and holds a dagger behind their back with another one,” Ambassador Anatoly Antonov said on Friday.
“They are, essentially, laying ground (for a decision) to simply remove all the existing restrictions at a certain point, without much thought,” he added.
In May, President Biden gave Ukraine the greenlight to use US-provided weapons in attacks on border regions in the Russian mainland. A few months later, on August 6, Ukraine launched its ground invasion of Russia’s Kursk Oblast.
Ukraine is using US-provided missile systems and bombs in its assault on Kursk, but the US says it won’t allow long-range strikes outside of the border areas. Ukrainian officials are now pushing hard to have all restrictions lifted.
US officials told POLITICO that the White House is still not ready to support long-range strikes in Russia. But there is growing support in Congress for the restrictions to be lifted, and Ukrainian officials say they have reasons to think there may be a change soon.
“There’s some indication now that Biden might want to do something big on Ukraine — maybe lifting some of the restrictions — before the election now that he’s not running,” a senior Ukrainian adviser told POLITICO. “There’s no guarantee, but we’re hearing that he’s thinking about it.”
The use of US weapons inside Russia marks a significant escalation of the proxy war as it is, and the step to support long-range strikes would take things to another level and risk a serious response from Moscow.
Antonov said Russian President Vladimir Putin will punish those responsible for attacking Russia. “I tell you sincerely that the president has made a decision,” he said. “I am firmly convinced that everyone will be severely punished for what has happened in Kursk region.”
Dangerous time when Joey Biden in a drooling senile angry retard, but still in charge of the nuclear football.
Unelected NEOCON bureaucrats and sycophants of obama running amuck in a lame duck White House.
https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/
The president is a functional idiot. We have idiots throughout the US government with the emotional development of 5-year olds, and the fate of the entire planet rests with their primitive urges and impulses.
I'm thankful that I am old enough to have lived a full life and won't have to endure this clot of idiots and monsters for decades to come.
All empires die, and this one is way overdue.
Hey, don't sell yourself short there, Regent of the British Empire…! You'll be around for the 100th anniversary of Woodstock. Which, even in hologram format, will still be horribly muddy, somehow.
“There’s some indication now that Biden might want to do something big on Ukraine — maybe lifting some of the restrictions — before the election now that he’s not running,” a senior Ukrainian adviser told POLITICO. “There’s no guarantee, but we’re hearing that he’s thinking about it.”
If Biden wants this to improve or cement his "legacy", it won't.
If he thinks this helps the Dems in general, or Harris in particular, this November, it won't.
The current President can help by not trying to help.
What will be the Russian response?
There will be one. Deciding to do this is also deciding to take the hit of the response.
Of course some in the West desire to provoke an extreme response. They want the wider war, since they are losing the more limited war.
They may not get that extreme response. They may instead get a Russia motivated to a more complete victory along the present lines. Already, Russian media carries more assertions that Ukraine is just a proxy, not a legitimate country, and ought not to exist at all. That is not just the extremes anymore, it includes the English language RT for today.
Worse, ought the rest of us let our radical aggressors play at being the German side of Munich 1938?
I wonder what the world will do knowing the US is attacking Russia and so many other countries at the same time.
Nobody seems fooled anymore by American monsters using other countries and economic sanctions as their tools for endless war and genocide.
Answer to your query? Nothing.