On Wednesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken strongly hinted that the US was preparing to lift restrictions on Ukraine’s use of US and NATO missiles to support long-range strikes inside Russian territory, which would mark a significant escalation of the proxy war.
Speaking at a press conference in Kyiv alongside UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy, Blinken said he discussed the issue of “long-range fires” with Ukrainian President Volodomy Zelensky and said he would bring the discussion back to Washington. He said President Biden and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will discuss the issue when they meet this Friday.
Signaling the US is ready to support long-range strikes in Ukraine, Blinken said, “Speaking for the United States, from day one, as you’ve heard me say, we have adjusted and adapted as needs have changed, as the battlefield has changed, and I have no doubt that we’ll continue to do that.”
The Guardian reported that British government sources indicated there’s already been a decision made in private to allow Ukraine to use British-provided missiles inside Ukraine, which have a range of about 155 miles. The sources said Biden and Starmer are not expected to announce the decision on Friday, and it’s unclear when it might be made public.
Later on Wednesday, POLITICO reported that the White House is finalizing plans to expand the area where Ukraine can hit inside Russia using US and British-provided missiles.
Ahead of Blinken’s visit, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), the hawkish chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said that he believed the Biden administration was ready to loosen restrictions on Ukraine’s use of US missiles to allow Army Tactical Missiles Systems (ATACMS) to be used in strikes inside Russia. ATACMS have a range of about 190 miles.
Blinken’s visit to Ukraine comes Russian forces are beginning to push back Ukrainian troops in Russia’s Kursk Oblast. Fighting has been raging in the Russian region since August 6, when Ukrainian forces invaded using US armored vehicles and British tanks. The offensive has failed to distract Moscow from eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, where Russian forces have continued to make gains.
The Ukrainian invasion of Kursk came a few months after President Biden gave Ukraine the greenlight to use US weapons in attacks on Russian border regions. Russia has strongly warned the US against allowing US weapons to be used in strikes deep inside Russian territory, but the Biden administration doesn’t appear to be concerned about the risk of escalation.
So….WWIII?…..
I know it sounds grim Donna but wouldn’t WW3 put the kibosh on this tireless effort?
Sadly so. It is the clear logical outcome of the Western historical dialectic of Kapitalism and the Warfare State realized in the moment of Wall St. and Neocon Washington … ??
all this fear mongering is gonna kill me before the rus do
my god stop believing the endless fearmongering
Lets take a gander at everything we've received without ww3 starting:
MI Abrams tanks
Challenger 2 tanks
Leopard 2 tanks
HIMARS rocket artilley
Storm Shadow precision missiles
Bradley infantry-fighting vehicles
Hundreds of thousands of artillery shells
Soon to be JSAMS (i hope i got the acronym right) precision missiles
Lest I add anything more?
WW3 ISNT HAPPENING
get it through your thick skull
The US has finally lost its mind!
The US has finally gained some sanity
Really?
Charges: Crimes Against Humanity!!!………………………….
Crimes against humanity?
IF FIRING MISSILES IS
nope
i wont say it
I WONT SAY IT
if you come up with firing missiles being a crime against humanity, then use your smart lil Amerikan noggin to see what freezing and forcing a country into blackouts amounts to
or executing POW's
Or mercilessly bombing innocent civillians
or invading us in the 1st place
You think the english giving us aid is a crime against humanity, so you're already halfway to the answer
Have you all lost your effing minds???!!!…
Donna, we did not, the others did. They can't be helped, they lost all their brains, we need to pray to God to please make it rain brain.
I believe russia did when theY elected den Führer Pütin.
WTF, One Comment. Fools planning WWIII and only ONE comment. I have been reading the U.S. is planning a pre-emptive strike on Russia, China, & maybe NorthKorea. To me this plan is like shooting the guy with a 10 gage shotgun with a bebe gun…!! What if Russia has five of their 200 megaton torpedo nukes sunk deep in the ocean & Blow them just off DC the blast would be equivalent to a billion tons of TNT? What would be left standing in DC…???? Whar would Becum of the Pentagon & it's staff?????
Radio active fallout could br better distributed across the US by massive nuclear detonations just off the US west coast.
Americans will not survive a preemptive attack on Russia, China, Korea and Iran even if they don't shoot back.
Hate filled war monsters may survive in caves for awhile.
Biden knows that will never happen because the Great USA is invincible, the same goes for the neocons with whom he hangs out with, Trump likes, it he can sell weapons to pay his bills. Harris does not know what you talk about, she is all about joy for the world.
MADness!
Nuh uh
The Biden-Harris administration is going to push its proxy war against Russia in Ukraine and inside Russia until it leads to a world war, possibly a devastating nuclear war.
The Biden-Harris administration's purpose is to overthrow the Russia government and turn it into a vassal of the U.S.
As the article says, “the Biden administration doesn’t appear to be concerned about the risk of escalation“.
This is madness, indeed, and most irresponsible.
The neocons are determined to get WW3 started prior to the election – in case Trump wins, he'll be locked in.
Why do they want WW3? So they can default on all the debt – especially debt held by China.
The hole in your logic is no one will fund ugly Americans who still need somebody to lend them money for groceries and gas.
Kings Landing used Napoleon and failed. They propped up Germany and they failed. Now Ukraine.
We're a country! Not something to be propped up
We know many people from all over access this website! So listen your arses up! NO WWIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IT IS NOT WINNABLE!
Just who the hell is Blinken working for?! THE US or ISRAHELL!!!!
I expected this happy BS from DT, NOT Biden!!!………………………!!!!!
You have to ask this question?
I am deliberately trying to be boring and redundant Tom.
😮💨
I hope every attack on Russia by the English weapon supplier is matched by a precision retaliation on the premises of the English Manufacturer.
I hope every attack on Russia by the English weapon supplier is matched by a threat of nuclear war that wont happen
Nukes are not necessary. They are 1930's and early 1940's tech.
not hydrogen nukes
Right. Hydrogen nukes are from the 1950's.
take what you an get
You are aware the wimpy Netanyahu had a drone fly into his bedroom? I bet the poor little genocidal maniac lives in greater terror than the nuclear terrorism he dishes out.
Nuclear weapons are very messy yesterday.
I am a Christian and my husband is a Jewish man and a fine one.
We love EVERYONE!
Our Lord Adonai/God says to forgive our transgressors
BUT THIS IS getting kinda rediculous for us
"Well, boys, I reckon this is it — nuclear combat toe to toe with the Rooskies. Now look, boys, I ain't much of a hand at makin' speeches, but I got a pretty fair idea that something doggone important is goin' on back there. And I got a fair idea the kinda personal emotions that some of you fellas may be thinkin'. Heck, I reckon you wouldn't even be human bein's if you didn't have some pretty strong personal feelin's about nuclear combat. I want you to remember one thing, the folks back home is a-countin' on you and by golly, we ain't about to let 'em down. I tell you something else, if this thing turns out to be half as important as I figure it just might be, I'd say that you're all in line for some important promotions and personal citations when this thing's over with. That goes for ever' last one of you regardless of your race, color or your creed. Now let's get this thing on the hump — we got some flyin' to do."
Thanks Dr. Strangelove, we needed a reminder it is all so long ago.
The Ukraine proxy war in Ukraine will only end when the US government and its European puppets stop sending billions$ of military equipment to Ukraine. Otherwise, it will escalade into a world war.
Well, if we’re going to war, might as well get there in a Cadillac!
Smartass, but lol.
Autocorrect has many times made me sound illiterate and/or insane (more so than usual), so I can sympathize.
It does the same thing to me.
I can't count the number of times that I've had to explain to my wife that even though the text message to another woman SAID "hey, let's go somewhere and f*ck," that's not what it meant, and what I actually thought I was sending was "I shouldn't be texting with you, I am madly in love with my wife."
Uh-huh.
Thomas, do they still make Cadillacs?
I think they are antics now, are you getting old too?
Had to look it up — I haven’t personally owned a car in more than 20 years, and although Tamara always has one, it’s never been a Caddy (my current vehicle is a 150cc Chinese motorcycle). But yes, they still make Cadillacs.
Get a car, it has four wheels and is safer.
“it has four wheels and is safer.”
So twice as many wheels as I need and less exciting. Not to mention lower gas mileage.
Have to agree on your points. Just make sure and wear your helmet.
Just went out for a ride.
It’s not a “find a twisty road, ride it as fast as you can yelling WHEEEEEEEEEE!” day.
It’s “rainy with occasional gusts of wind and lots of big trucks on this particular road, guess I’ll just practice my inclement weather riding for 15 miles, grab a burger, then practice my inclement weather riding home” day. So the wheeing wasn’t in all caps.
For every action there is a reaction deep inside Europe…!
Idiot Blinker alluding to an extinction level event. Any strikes deep into Russia by American or British weapons will invite reprisals like the world has never seen.
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And yet Trump's master plan for ending the war is to threaten to cut off Zelensky if he won't negotiate and to give Ukraine everything they need if Putin doesn't agree to negotiate. Did he think of Russia's nuclear weapons if Putin decided not to agree to his ultimatums?
Did you think of putins small d**k?
Not at all. You certainly seem enamored by it since this isn't the first time you mentioned it.
Enamored by its patheticness
How would you know?
Us ukrainians have our ways
Imagine if Russia was supplying missiles to Cuba or Venezuela or Mexico to fire into the USA and kill Americans.
imagine
With Putin in charge that is all we can do. Imagine it. The useless moron still won't retaliate.
Exactly
he knows nato would kill him easily
and using nukes
nobody wins
(wargames, the movie)
Wow! Russia has nukes? I thought they had pea shooters
which they do as well
Russia had the first Satellite in space, and the first man in space, don't you know that? Do you know about Russian culture, literature, music and dance and architecture? I am sure John McCain did not know. He was really an uneducated man, a pilot in Vietnam and a GOP Senator. Open your mind.
Maybe you are a student, then again maybe you are just another troll. Our trolls went missing.
“Russia had the first Satellite in space, and the first man in space”
Sputnik was launched from Kazakhstan, not Russia. While the first man in space was from Russia, he also went to space from Kazakhstan, not from Russia. And both launches were planned and executed by the Soviet Union, not by Russia.
The same spaceport is stil being used.
Well, the first American Astronauts were from the USA and Floridian scientists came from Europe, the same is true for Los Alamos NM, many of them came from Nazi Germany, in case you don’t know. Get off your cheap biased attitude. You can’t admit it, Russian people are just that, Russian regardless of political definitions.
That's just semantics. Does it really matter?
Only problem is Putin still won't do anything. His warnings are useless and without meaning.
Paul Craig Roberts has written repeatedly about Russia's insouciance, his favourite word to describe Putins pussy footing. He should have nuked kiev and taken out zelensky long ago
erm what the flip
ur not anti war
f'in warmonger
kyiv, my kyiv, will remain
Putin and the Russian people know what war is, he is doing all he can to avoid war, much like the generations who did experience WW II. But the MIC and warmongers are very powerful for them war solves all problems as long as others do the dying. With JFK as president the war in Ukraine would not have happened. Ukraine would be a prospering neutral nation.
Where is Biden, did he go AWOL? Not that it really matters. DC is a mad house where the inmates are on the lose.
Last seen with a Trump hat.
That was one of the better day photos, LOL.
Was he trolling Dems? Or Trump?
I don't know, I think even he did not know, you know his mind and age and so.
Nah, he has moments of clarity and narcissistic injury for being pushed out.
Looks like the moments of clarity keep getting shorter, but he is AWOL, no way to know. Would Sullivan or Blinken know? But they are mad dogs too.
Actually both, there is not much difference other than style between the two. They all fit in the same stock-pot.
He's still with us. And just as brilliant (/s) as ever.
Later in the day, President Biden backed the Israeli claim. “Apparently, it was an accident — it ricocheted off the ground, and she got hit by accident. I’m working that out now,” he told reporters.
Russia may not take the bait if struck by long range missiles. BRICS II is coming to Kazan in October
BRICS II may be the end of Joey Bidens Rules Based Order!
brics is pathetic
Scott R. Rocks it for peace, truth and honesty!
You rock it too!
A good, healthy, shot in the arm!
I still have faith in humanity!
The entire concept of democracy, free speech, citizen participation in government in the US is dead and gone, thanks to the lying SOB's in our government coupled to and aided by corporate press whoredom.
A healthy dose of cynicism RBE!
Realism. I happen to believe, given the current circumstances, that the idiots in charge fully intend to provoke a nuclear exchange – and win.
I give us a 40-60 chance of a major nuclear war, and a 60-40 chance of a nuclear confrontation.
Cannot argue with you at all….
Sigh!…
It has begun to occur to me that there are denizens of the asylum in DC who have long been itching to use nuclear weapons in combat.
Realism is more to the point, I think.
And this article also fails to mention that Blinken once against assured Ukraine that it would "join NATO".
And the EU, etc…..blah, blah, blah.
Just love how they ignore the the fact that Ukraine is, and probably more now today than ever next to Albania/Kosovo, the most corrupt nation in Europe and how they want to accelerate EU/NATO accession. What a joke.
In essence, they think all will be well if they give Ukraine a fresh coat of paint and a new set of hubcaps.
Guess what? It's the same pile of crap it always was. In fact, it's a hell of a lot worse. But that's a nice opportunity now for Blackrock/Vanguard isn't it?
we arent the most corrupt nation in europe
Did Russia and Belarus just get wiped off of the map?
And we're working on it
We used to be worse
Look it up before you sh*tpost about things you have no idea about
You’re wrong pal. A regional war in the Middle East has been avoided. The Russia Ukraine war is still going on even though you said it would be over by now.
Under normal conditions with common sense leadership the chaos, death and destruction would have been avoided. Ukraine could have become neutral and prosper like another Austria.
But face it, dealing with mad dogs nothing is predictable anything is possible. It will end with unconditional surrender if something will be left of Ukraine other than death, ruins, ashes, and cemeteries, and that could happen to Europe too. The EU and NATO are falling apart. There never is a real alliance when the members force sanctions on each other. The demented leader of the NATO alliance blew up the pipelines and with it the economies of the EU. Biden did it, how will it end if not in ashes? The enemy is the USA and us. Biden and the neocons did it, it is Biden's war and his death and disaster.
Does Biden EVEN KNOW about that? Where is he anyway? Is he AWOL??
As usual, the United States is "leading the world" in very positive directions and illustrating why all those international polls finding that the US is considered the greatest obstacle to peace are nonsense.
No its called defending my homeland from an invader
Which part of my comment are you saying "no" to?
i took it as amerika giving us aid is an obstacle to peace
english isnt my 1st language is that an incorrect asumption?
yes. this article is about authorizing long-range NATO strikes into Russia, the state with the second-most nuclear weapons. that's what my comment is addressing. Ukrainians do have a right to defend themselves. At the same time, no one wants to wipe out all humans over this. It is a sad scenario. If you are in Ukraine I hope you stay safe.
I hope so too……. thanks
yesssssssssssssssssss lets destroy some Russkies
Might as well. They won't bother fighting back.
when I join the AFU in a year I would LOVE to have some storm shadows to play with
Don't get caught in the storm…!
i’ll try…
This article should be named Putin Signals US Will Allow Long-Range Strikes in Russia With NATO Missiles.
There would be the truth of the matter. When the missles are fired into Russia Putin will do absolutely NOTHING just like always. Why blame blinken for it? In his view it is just continuing the daily attacks that Putin has already allowed to happen hundreds of times already. Why the sudden change from ole Vladmir?
No it should be titled:
Putin signals he wants a bj from trump, couldn't do that in a nuclear war
Shocker! The top of our political food chain has spoken!
What retaliation have they decided is acceptable?
Do they imagine it won't happen?
Will it be "unprovoked" when it comes?
Is that the reason they are doing this, to get their wider war?
Note: The same people are perfectly fine with US citizens being killed by Israel, so no, they do not shy from getting us killed for their electoral needs.
No argument from me….Wish I could. Great post!
I hate to burst your masive bubble ,but………….
RUSSIA
IS
NOT
GOING
TO
RESPOND
the only reason Russia threatens nuclear war is to discourage the west from helping us!
And you'r lapping up that propoganda faster than you'd lap up Putins d**k
Russia certainly will respond. Not likely a nuclear response, but definitely a response.
they’ll respond with a very stern threat
I just have to say it, thank God that Putin and his people are rational people, Lavrov is a great Secretary of State, we can only be grateful that the Russian people are rational people.
ok lol
Blinken and Baerbock are huge embarrassments for the US and Germany and dangerously stupid. That is not funny, that is scary. As for you, recall Kissinger, he said to be a friend of the USA is fatal. Look at Germany, the friend in Washington blew up the pipelines destroying the German economy and with it the EU and NATO. And by blocking Ukrainian neutrality Biden turned it in an ash-heap and wiped out a generation of young people. Take a close look of your motherland and tell me if you like what you see. It is what Biden gifted the Ukrainian people and is willing to do the same with Europe.
Wake up if you are who you say you are.
I do believe that the German government is the product of the CIA and Mi 6.
Russia has nuclear weapons for the same reason the USA has them.
President Putin has said there will be no world without Russia.
What do you think he meant?
i dont speak russkie so idk
What do you know about Russia and what have Russians done to you? Is it the demonizing propaganda? Inflammatory smear campaigns are part of war propaganda, people are manipulated to hate the enemy, how else could they kill each other?
WHAT DO I KNOW ABOUT RUSSIA? WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO ME?
calms down
I am in Ukraine. I border the russkies, You are safe in your bunker in Amerika. My city gets bombed by the Rus every day
I have had friends and family die in strikes launched by the Rus.
THATS what they've done to me
THEY ARE THE SCUM THAT 40 MILLION PEOPLE HAVE TO DEAL WITH
THE RUS
The Russian regime is not Russia, nor is it the Russians, any more than you are the Ukrainian regime.
they’re complicit which is as bad as doing it
Interesting.
So does that mean you’re complicit in the Ukrainian regime’s outlawing of opposition political parties, seizure/censorship of media, enslavement (via conscription) of its population, etc.?
There are still political parties in here
Media is still free (See European/Ukrainska Pravda, Kyiv Post and others).
And we are fighting a war for survival not slavery
Stop trying to equate the terror state with us, an imperfect democracy improving every day
It is more complex, I do want to point out that all people are the same, all of us have red blood and feel pain and want to live in peace. The ruling elite is responsible for the welfare of the nation.
The American people provide the revenue the ruling elite uses to destroy Ukraine. Much of that money ends up in foreign bank accounts of the rulers in Kyiv(Kiev)
The neo-Nazi leaders including Zelensky sold the nation. Blackrock is buying the best pieces of the pie and JD Vance thinks that rich Germany will fund the rebuilding of Ukraine.
It will be a big grow-up lesson for you.
As Rosa Luxemburg said, in wars profits go up and people go down.
Don't die for a lost cause, common sense requires an end of the slaughter for nothing, but profits for the rich don't allow it, they never lose a war, the working people do.
In the US inflation is eating up working people's savings, in the Ukraine they lose their children, family farms and homes what for, NATO membership?
vile Russian propaganda:
The American people provide the revenue the ruling elite uses to destroy Ukraine.
The neo-Nazi leaders including Zelensky sold the nation.
In the Ukraine they lose their children, family farms and homes because Putin invaded and started a war.
also, don’t talk about our politics like you know us or live here
You certianly know more about American poltics than me, and I don’t pretend to know more
But you act like you read Ukrainian politics every day and like you are well versed in our every detail
Pro tip: Don’t bother trying to tell me what to do. It won’t work.
Did you ever ask yourself why that happened and who benefits from all that destruction?
Only the USA benefits, the American Military Industrial Complex is the real beneficiary, their profit margins are going through the roof .
The losers are the Ukrainian people, starting with the regime change funded and directed by US neocons, the Russian ,and the European people, and yes the average American people. The only winner is the ruling American corporate elite. Their lobbyists are in charge, they write the laws to suit their interests, not the people’s interests and needs.
Watch how they repeat the same tricks using Taiwan against China, the American weapon industry is booming, Trump is a salesman, not a statesman. The US ruling class is extremely evil, in class with Nazi Germany. The USA the monster par excellence.
At least your ruling class makes an attempt to pretend they aren’t evil unlike in Russia, China, or Nazi Germany
I like your saying “your ruling class makes an attempt to pretend they aren’t evil” Yes, they are so honorable because at least they PRETEND they are NOT EVIL.
One could not ask for more. Actually, our ruling class is as corrupt and evil as the Ukrainian ruling class, people don’t count, only money and power does.
I never said they are honorable
But your post leads to that very conclusion, they hide their evil to appear to be honorable or good people, or not?
im not great at sarcasm yet
If you use sarcasm, please mark it as such /s will help. Don’t forget, we live in a time of sarcastic reality.
Good point
You wish Putin could take these people’s nation?
Lies.
With President Putin in charge there is reason to hope and belief in a rational and disciplined victory and surrender.
Here it is. You will not see these comments by President Putin on mainstream news sources in America.
Essentially, President Putin just said that long range strikes into Russia will mean that Russia is at war with America and NATO in every sense of the word. Strategic war is an extinction level event for the earth.
Only sub–IQ Ukrainian scum would wish to start World War III.
The totalitarian dictator Zelensky is so desperate he would do anything including striking deep into Russia to save his beacon from being toasted.
What would America do if Russia provided Venezuela with missiles capable of hitting Washington and New York?
What would America do if the technicians who were tasked with launching these missiles were all Russian "contractors"?
What would America do if targeting data from Russian satellites was provided to crews launching missiles toward Washington and New York?
What would America do if a stratagem was provided by the Russian FSB (CIA and MI6) to go ahead with attacks?
Place yourselves in the shoes of the Bear who has been pushed by America and NATO since 1990.
It just seems to me, coming from a point of logic, if you will, we are inviting the potential for larger entanglements. Seriously. No logic at all in this situation. Surely, we have some logical and clever individuals, who can come forward with a clearer direction for us all to go to. Tangle with the Russians, we will be in a potentially global conflict. Let me also emphasize, what you do will have a direct response in the way we vote.
If we live long enough to vote, that is…
Pro tip: Don’t talk about our politics like you live here. It won’t work