Posted on 09/03/2024 8:03:07 AM PDT by Mariner
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. is close to an agreement to give Ukraine long-range cruise missiles that could reach deep into Russia, but Kyiv would need to wait several months as the U.S. works through technical issues ahead of any shipment, U.S. officials said.
The inclusion of Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles (JASSM) in a weapons package is expected to be announced this autumn, three sources said, though a final decision has not been made. The sources declined to be named because they are not authorized to discuss the topic.
Sending JASSMs to Ukraine could significantly alter the strategic landscape of the conflict by putting more of Russia in range of powerful, precision-guided munitions, an important concern of the Biden administration, the officials said.
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I have to believe the Pentagon will nix this deal.
This is nuts...
Biden doesn’t have months and knows it.
I hope Trump gets in before this is done. He won’t allow it, methinks.
“This is nuts.”
Not from a strategic sense as it will give the Neocons a chance to see how effective long-range Russian missiles are, when they attempt to blast Neocon targets.
This information will be useful in determining the next step, which would be for the Neocons to take out Russian nuclear targets.
“... an important concern of the Biden administration”
Just WHO IS the “Biden Administration”? There is no ody named “Biden” init. And just who is concerned about starting WW III?
Nope. If fleets of heavy bombers couldn't reverse Nazi production increases in WWII, what are a handful of expensive toys like this going to do, except poke the bear some more? It is comical how western elites imagine minor attacks will change the tide of the war. It puts them on the same level of naivity as Osama Bin Laden imagining that bringing down the WTC would somehow cause the USA to "collapse."
It’s like The Spanish Civil War, where the Nazis and the Soviets got to try out their new toys.
Trump will end this madness.
The war of attrition continues as planned, guaranteed by Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, securing the ordnance industry money pump for the Democrat Party.
Putin is stalking them, day and night.Soon he will call their bluff, before Trump is re-elected.
To take out Russian nuclear targets? Like their nuclear subs?
Imagine how safe it would feel having kamala in charge at the start of WW3.
This is beyond insane.
World War 3 anybody ?
How to pretend at doing something while always never doing enough soon enough.
One more step to WW III. Pure insanity.
ummm... Why would they need long range missiles? Their enemy is literally in their back yard. Even Moscow is within just 475 mi of Kiev, and just 285 mi from the closest point within Ukraine.
This whole war is not a good idea.
5.56mm
Ironic,
And then, often with the same breath of air, the West argues that Russia does not need (past tense) or is entitled (present) a buffer zone for their own security.
Can you imagine if a nation did to us the sort of things we do to others? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-seizes-nicolas-maduros-plane-venezuela-president/
Exactly!
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