Posted on 11/19/2024 1:54:03 PM PST by RandFan
President Biden’s decision to allow Ukraine to strike inside Russia with long-range missiles supplied by the US has sparked a furious response in Russia.
"Departing US president Joe Biden… has taken one of the most provocative, uncalculated decisions of his administration, which risks catastrophic consequences," declared the website of the Russian government newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta on Monday morning.
Russian MP Leonid Slutsky, head of the pro-Kremlin Liberal-Democratic Party, predicted that the decision would "inevitably lead to a serious escalation, threatening serious consequences".
Russian senator Vladimir Dzhabarov called it "an unprecedented step towards World War Three".
Anger, yes. But no real surprise.
Komsomolskaya Pravda, the pro-Kremlin tabloid, called it "a predictable escalation".
What really counts, though, is what Vladimir Putin calls it and how the Kremlin leader responds.
So far he’s stayed silent.
But on Monday President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists that “if such a decision has been taken it means a whole new spiral of tension and a whole new situation with regard to US involvement in this conflict".
Mr Peskov accused the Biden administration of “adding fuel to the fire and continuing to stoke tension around this conflict".
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It would be good for the fighting to stop. And I hope Trump pulls it off. But I don’t see DC and London willing to offer anything.
Russia could prevent all Ukrainian attacks on Russia by just ending this war and going home. You reap what you sow.
Are you saying you support the US attacking Russia because Russia invaded Ukraine? Are there any limits to the types of weapons you think we shoukd use?
The US is not attacking Russia.
Why do you keep saying that crap?
The US is not attacking Russia. It is aiding Ukraine in defending itself from Russia. We should give Ukraine the weapons it needs to end this. Defending Ukrainian independence is not an attack on Russia. Are you supporting Russia attacking Ukraine. Are we just to look away as Russia attempts to subjugate another country?
Don’t think Bidet has any idea what is happening.. (Even IF he could remember)
I highly suspect Obunghole and his people are behind this.
As someone said these people are faceless/shameless. I guess it will come out in a cr*ppy book over who really runs/ran the show but I think you’re right. Quite a shocking period in US history....
I don’t think Putin responds bigly - but if he does, he can drop the first one on Starmer’s head...the same Starmer who’s been shooting off his mouth urging long-range missle escalation.
no not dementia joe but his globalist handlers..
yes it is sabotage.
time to turn off the welfare satellites and end this proxy war on russia.
#MAGA
How many Ukraine satellites are used in targeting?
Let’s give them nuclear weapons then. It’s the only thing that might stop the Russians. Plus, it takes much less direct US involvement in launching nuclear missiles vs ATACMS.
Well, what does the old coot have to lose?
His legacy is in tatters after being forced out and then having Americans vote against his party, decisively. Slow Joe is obviously trying to screw the whole country bc.... Nobody f@*%$ with a Biden!
It’s soooo ridiculous that he’s too infirm to stand trial or run for re-election and yet he’s running amok and setting the world alight. All the while, Kneepads Harris is sitting on a beach in Hawaii.
Doesn’t beg the west. Why would they? The west isn’t going to arm Russia. But they do beg the NORKS, CHICOMS, and the Mullahs.
Take away all foreign aid and this war isn’t still going on in 2024. Only one country ever absolutely needed it. You cannot even possible compare the quarter trillion dollars in aid from the U.S. alone to some shells from North Korea.
I didn’t compare anything. You said Russia doesn’t beg the west. I agreed with you. They don’t. I pointed out who they beg instead.
I was! Pretty interesting!
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