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Pentagon gives Ukraine green light for drone strikes inside Russia
Times UK ^ | 12/9/2022 | Michael Evans, Marc Bennetts

Posted on 12/12/2022 5:55:21 AM PST by PK1991

The Pentagon has given its tacit endorsement of Ukrainian attacks inside Russian territory and no longer fears such operations could lead to a “dramatic” Russian escalation, The Times reported on Friday, citing unnamed US defense officials.

The US position appears to only be based on the fact that up to this point, Russia hasn’t responded to attacks on its territory with nuclear weapons or by attacking NATO countries.

The Times report reads: “Moscow’s revenge attacks have to date all involved conventional missile strikes against civilian targets. Previously, the Pentagon was warier of Ukraine attacking Russia because it feared the Kremlin would retaliate either with tactical nuclear weapons or by targeting neighboring NATO nations.”

The report came after Ukrainian drone attacks hit Russian air bases deep inside Russian territory, including one that killed three Russian soldiers and damaged two Russian bombers. Following the attacks, Russian missiles pounded Ukrainian energy infrastructure, worsening the already dire situation for millions of Ukrainian civilians who are without power and heat in freezing temperatures.

Russia didn’t start launching large-scale attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure until October, after the truck bombing of the Kerch Bridge, which connects Crimea to the Russian mainland. US officials previously said that they support Ukrainian attacks on Crimea.

The Times report said that the US doesn’t want to publicly give Ukraine the greenlight to attack targets inside Russia. In public comments, US officials have said they are not “encouraging” or “enabling” Ukrainian strikes inside Russian territory. But a US defense official said that it’s up to Ukraine where they attack and that they have limited restrictions on using US-provided weapons.


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To: Forward the Light Brigade

one good attack and the whole rotten structure will fall down.

That sounds somewhat familiar. Where have we heard that before? I’m trying to remember...


41 posted on 12/12/2022 7:17:50 AM PST by rxh4n1
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To: pierrem15

Amen....... preach it brother. Preach it


42 posted on 12/12/2022 7:22:54 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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To: PK1991

POTUS needs to be Impeached NOW!

This is insanity!


43 posted on 12/12/2022 7:27:59 AM PST by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell..)
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To: FlyingEagle

We’re fine. It’s not like we released the worlds most dangerous arms dealer to Russia...


44 posted on 12/12/2022 7:29:03 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

I honestly can’t tell if you are joking, insane, or retarded.


45 posted on 12/12/2022 7:31:28 AM PST by EEGator
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To: al baby

of course, he is not in charge, but it came from his white house


46 posted on 12/12/2022 7:33:36 AM PST by PCPOET7 (`)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

Keep telling yourself that.


47 posted on 12/12/2022 7:42:43 AM PST by farmguy
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To: PCPOET7

John Bolton and his “posse” were seen licking their chops over the weekend at the Club...


48 posted on 12/12/2022 7:55:35 AM PST by Shady (The #JihadJunta: "We are now a nation of Men, Not of Laws. You are not as equal as we are...")
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To: metmom

Russia weaponizes everything. Energy, nuclear saber rattling, etc. They’ll find a reason to threaten to nuke us because that is just how KGB filth like Putin operate. They have no bounderies.

Russia doesn’t need a reason to rape it’s smaller neighbors. It’s been a feature of Russian society for centuries. Putin is an irredentist who fancies himself a new czar.

It isn’t the interest of the US politically or economically to have a neo USSR allied with the Chinese Communist party. It is much better to kick Russian corruption and influence out of Europe. Morally, conservatives understand that no free people should face the misery and murder rule by the Kremlin promises them. President Trump aggress and his policies reflect that. Don’t be duped by gaslighting in support of Kremlin and its tin pot czar. We’re better than that.


49 posted on 12/12/2022 7:58:33 AM PST by lodi90
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To: PK1991
What in hell are those idiots in the Pentagon trying to do - get us into a shooting war as well as a spending war?

The USA has no good reason being involved in Ukraine. We can't (won't!) even defend our own borders. What gives us any right to defend theirs?

50 posted on 12/12/2022 7:59:36 AM PST by Gritty (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the Revolution. - Saul Alinsky)
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To: Jumper

Putin knows Ukraine is getting limited support from NATO. Older weapon systems in limited quantities. No tanks, no aircraft, etc. Putin has seen his army beaten in Ukraine by poorly armed Ukrainian farmers and certainly doesn’t it want to face the force of NATO. Putin is counting on a fifth column in the west undermining opposition to Russia’s mass murder and genocide in Ukraine. He knows that’s the only way he can achieve his policy goals now.


51 posted on 12/12/2022 8:03:58 AM PST by lodi90
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To: EEGator

Joking, Perhaps—I have a twisted sense of Humor—it comes from working in Hollywierd.
Insane, Maybe, I still live in the People’s Republic of California after all.
Retarded, Somewhat, I still believe in America as the land of the Free—I voted Trump and will vote for him again.
Or Just maybe—I’m all three!Maybe one must be to live in the Republic of Biden in the province of Newsom.
I write to invoke an emotional response, laughter, rage, but most of all thought on the questions of today.


52 posted on 12/12/2022 8:13:37 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade ( Ride to the sound of the Guns!)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

That is impressive, and potentially extremely caffeinated?
(since Hollywood, maybe coffee = blow 😀 )


53 posted on 12/12/2022 8:16:56 AM PST by EEGator
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To: PK1991

Ukraine takes orders from the Pentagon?


54 posted on 12/12/2022 8:21:14 AM PST by rdl6989 ( )
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To: PK1991

Lots of keyboard bravery here. As usual.


55 posted on 12/12/2022 8:24:31 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: exinnj

“We haven’t invaded Mexico, in case you are not aware of that.”

True! But Mexico HAS invaded us, JUST SINCE BENEDICT BIDEN TOOK OFFICE, with an army 25 times the size of the one Moscow used to invade Ukraine. And they are ALL going on WELFARE.


56 posted on 12/12/2022 8:30:34 AM PST by 2harddrive (FREE 3D-printable Firearm blueprints available here: https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/)
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To: PK1991

Are these people that crazy?!?!?


57 posted on 12/12/2022 8:36:07 AM PST by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: xzins
said, "Is the pentagon run by a cult?"

yeap, and the leadership in government.
The worst part.
The leadership don't think they're human.

hint from wikileaks:
07/31/2015
With fingers crossed, the old rabbit's foot out of the box in the attic, I will be sacrificing a chicken in the backyard to Moloch . . .
Tri (Name Hillary gave her self for these Emails.)
https://archive.ph/7CFBA#selection-1189.84-1193.0

Jim jones preached out of his garage in Palo Alto CA.
His disciples Feinstein, Pelosi, Jerry Brown, Jane Fonda, Harvey Milk and Jim Jones all hang in Palo Alto where Jim Jones lived.
"I was constructed in a garage in Palo Alto" - Hillary Clinton said during a campaign speech 2015.
58 posted on 12/12/2022 8:44:35 AM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: PK1991

Who is really at war?

Why does Ukraine need US permission to attack Russia?


59 posted on 12/12/2022 8:45:05 AM PST by DEPcom (Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules)
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To: PK1991

What is Russia’s objective in this war? Something never talked about in the media.

I’m guessing Russia wants the reunification of Ukraine with the Motherland?


60 posted on 12/12/2022 8:58:56 AM PST by CodeJockey ("The duty of a true Patriot is to protect his country from its government.” –Thomas Paine)
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