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Russia May See Ukrainian Long-Range Attacks as ‘Precursor to Nuclear Strike’, Ex-DoD Analyst Fears
Sputnik News ^ | 5/31/24 | Ilya Tsukanov

Posted on 05/31/2024 12:30:49 PM PDT by marshmallow

The Biden administration has greenlit the use of American long-range strike systems by Ukraine to launch attacks deep into Russia. This puts the entire planet in a “shockingly” dangerous situation, says former DoD analyst and US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski.

President Biden has knowingly or unwittingly brought the risk of a world-ending nuclear conflict much, much closer after listening to “neoconservative advisors who really don’t have a lot of perspective on the nuclear dangers that they’re walking into” instead of military specialists and okaying Ukraine’s use of NATO weapons to strike the Russian hinterland, Kwiatkowski told Sputnik.

“The big problem is that Kiev’s drones have [already] attacked Russian early warning systems that are designed as part of their nuclear defense.....I don’t think they damaged them, but this has been done. If American weapons, heavier weapons are used against those targets, this cannot help but be seen by Russia as a precursor to a first strike – a nuclear first strike. When you hit someone’s nuclear defense radars, their ‘eyes’, their defensive systems, in normal war strategy, you’re preparing a battlefield. So I don’t know if the Biden advisors in Washington really have a sense of this, because there are no military people up there that are talking to Biden about this, but it’s a very dangerous situation,” Kwiatkowski emphasized.

The Wall Street Journal has reported citing officials that Washington has greenlit Ukraine’s use of Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) and High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) rockets, as well as long-range artillery, for strikes on Russia territory.

Earlier, other NATO members, including Britain and France – which have sent long-range Storm Shadow/SCALP cruise missiles to Ukraine, similarly gave a nod to Kiev to use these weapons to fire on positions deep inside Russia amid Ukrainian forces’ slow........

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To: The Louiswu

“”””Where is Code Pink””””

Stop the War in Ukraine
“This past Saturday, thousands of people joined us for an online rally to stop the war in Ukraine and say no to NATO.”
“ Read CODEPINK’s statement on the war, sign the petition to President Biden, and call on Congress not to allow the U.S. to transfer weapons that will further escalate the already dangerous war.”
https://www.codepink.org/stop_war_in_ukraine


41 posted on 05/31/2024 4:42:02 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: redgolum

They probably would have stopped when the Russian-speaking areas close to Russia were traded back to Russia for whatever we want from them.

It’s probably too late for that now.

I know it also had to do with our missile-launching capability.

Everything could have been solved and bargained with the right leadership but forget about that now. I believe the left really wants a nuclear war. They think they will come out ahead.


42 posted on 05/31/2024 5:07:29 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: delta7
…and the Ukro Nazis will kill all the ethnic Russians, similar to their shelling of Donetsk since 2014. Make no mistake, Vlad is keeping his ethnic Russian provinces….plus more if the West keeps poking the Bear.

Just repeating lies does not make them true. There was no deliberate shelling of the ethnic Russian population. Even the numbers reported by the so-called Donbas republics do not support this. As for the ethnic Russian provinces, the only one is Crimea. Luhansk and Donetsk have ethnic Ukrainian populations. And what about Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, which have overwhelming Ukrainian majorities? All of this has been pointed out before but that does not stop some from repeating Russian lies.

And if Russia does not want to be poked perhaps it should pull back its own claws and stop poking its neighbors. Funny how those who cry "don't poke the bear" never acknowledge this.

43 posted on 05/31/2024 5:28:11 PM PDT by Petrosius
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To: airborne

Research outside the Great DNC MSM FIREWALL. There are a lot of sources but hard to find. It took several years to ferret out a dozen great resources on the war.

Bottomline it’s a labor of love - and Zeepers deserve to hear the truth.

B 1/508th PIR 82d; HHC Div SGS, G4, IG, XVII ABC SGS 101 jumps and a spinal fusion to boot;)


44 posted on 05/31/2024 6:02:52 PM PDT by Jumper
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To: Jumper

Charlie Co. 2/504 11B - until I shattered T-4 and T-5 on post, while riding a motorcycle at 10 MPH.

Thank God I wasn’t going fast or I’d be dead.


45 posted on 05/31/2024 6:43:39 PM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: marshmallow

Thanks for sharing the latest Russian propaganda talking points.


46 posted on 05/31/2024 7:43:52 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: dforest
No, we just invaded Ukraine and annexed it.

Do they serve good borscht in your cafeteria at work?

47 posted on 05/31/2024 7:45:59 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: delta7
similar to their shelling of Donetsk since 2014

Things must be really bad if you are dragging out that thoroughly debunked lie.

That strike on the Russian oil storage tanks must have been really serious.

48 posted on 05/31/2024 7:48:45 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: freeandfreezing

You can’t deny the UN reports for 2014 about the Ukies shelling the ethnic Russian provinces…..you can deny the hundreds of UN human rights violations by Ukraine filed by the UN, but then you become a denier.

Here is just one:

“ GENEVA/KYIV (14 July 2016) – A new UN report released Thursday describes the widespread killings that have taken place in Ukraine since January 2014 and highlights the very limited accountability that has taken place.

The report, which was prepared by the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine*, states that the armed conflict in certain districts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, “fuelled by the inflow of foreign fighters and weapons from the Russian Federation, accounts for the majority of violations of the right to life in Ukraine over the last two years,” claiming up to 2,000 civilian lives. Close to 90 per cent of conflict-related civilian deaths have resulted from indiscriminate shelling of residential areas.

Nobody has taken responsibility for any civilian deaths caused by the conduct of hostilities, the report says, adding that some of the killings may amount to war crimes and/or crimes against humanity.

In general, it concludes, “impunity for killings remains rampant, encouraging their perpetuation and undermining prospects for justice.”

The 20-page report, which has an additional 31-page annex describing more than 60 specific cases, focuses mainly on cases of alleged killings of civilians, and people otherwise protected under international humanitarian law, in the conflict zone while no armed hostilities were taking place in the immediate vicinity of the incidents.

Significant numbers of people, including civilians, have also been summarily executed or died in custody, with most such killings occurring in 2014 and early 2015. According to the report, armed groups mainly executed individuals who had, or were believed to have, vocal ‘pro-unity’ views or to support Ukrainian forces, while Ukrainian forces targeted people based on their alleged affiliation with, or support for, armed groups, or for their “separatist” or “pro-Russian” views….

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2016/07/un-report-2014-16-killings-ukraine-highlights-rampant-impunity

Fact is this Ukie civil began in 2014 when the Ukie Neo Nazis began shelling the Russian population in the Donbass. Vlad has done an excellent job protecting his people from the Ukro Nazis.


49 posted on 06/01/2024 4:49:04 AM PDT by delta7
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To: freeandfreezing

That strike on the Russian oil storage tanks must have been really serious.
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Why do you support our suicide? Reducing Russia’s massive oil production only increases the oil prices resulting in much higher prices at the pump. Even brain Dead Joe asked the Ukies to stop disrupting the world’s oil supply….carry on war cheerleader- your “ reward” is around the corner.


50 posted on 06/01/2024 5:37:04 AM PDT by delta7
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To: delta7

Go back to Moscow and spew your ignorant drivel


51 posted on 06/01/2024 5:38:37 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Hamascide is required in totality)
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