Posted on 11/18/2024 4:21:12 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Britain is expected to supply Storm Shadow missiles for use by Ukraine on targets inside Russia, now that the US president, Joe Biden, has agreed to do the same for the similar American long-range Atacms weapon.
Keir Starmer, the prime minister, said at the G20 summit that the UK recognised it needed to “double down” on its support for Ukraine, while diplomatic sources briefed they expected other European countries to follow the US lead.
The prime minister said that, while he was “not going to get into operational details”, he recognised the need to do more to help Ukraine, whose electricity network was seriously damaged by a wave of Russian bombing on Sunday.
“I’ve been really clear for a long time now, we need to double down. We need to make sure Ukraine has what is necessary for as long as necessary, because we cannot allow Putin to win this war,” the prime minister said.
Russia, however, accused the west of escalation and said that Biden risked adding “fuel to the fire” in Ukraine, and while Donald Trump remained silent on the issue, his son Don Jr accused the military industrial complex of wanting to get “world war three going”.
Storm Shadow missiles have a range of about 250km (155 miles), similar to the US Atacms, and have in the past been given to Kyiv by the UK and France to strike targets inside Ukraine’s internationally recognised borders.
But the US retained an effective veto on their use because it supplies a guidance system and repeated lobbying by the UK had failed to shift the US position, which has only begun to soften after the election victory of Donald Trump earlier this month.
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Russia gets missiles and drones from Iran, that it uses to strike deep into Ukraine
What’s the difference?
Russia gets missiles and drones from Iran, that it uses to strike deep into Ukraine
What’s the difference?
America expected to provide materiel and munitions to allies...*Lusitania sinks*
Britain under Starmers has become a communist state.
Escalation like this simply moves the timetable up and shows who the Winner of the conflict is. For those not paying attention, the Winner is going to be Russia, and Ukraine is setting itself up for a major beatdown.
And in your old age.
The Russians can and will takeout the entire electric grid in Ukraine. They could decide to level every government building in Kiev.
There is no difference. F**k both Ukraine and Russia. Trump is wise to stay silent on the issue. He warned Putin last week not to "escalate" and Vlad is doing just that, and then some. Why should Trump give a shit if ZZZ hits Russian targets? Well deserved and not our problem. There isn't going to be a WWIII, because Russia knows damn well it would be erased.
Among other things, range. The Iranian stuff does not have the 150-200 mile plus range of ATACMS or Storm Shadow. Russia has *not* been buying the counterparts to Storm Shadow, etc., from Iran.
When you are siding with a Soros, you are doing something wrong.
Precisely, it may not seem like it but Russia has limited how hard they hit because they don’t want to have rebuild all the stuff they destroy. If they start getting real damage from missiles that’s over.
The Ukies and their "advisors" had best be wondering, too - and not be around the launch sites for too long.
Or, if they're air-launched, best not be hanging around the home airfield.
Trying to eliminate global warming by offsetting it with nuclear winter.
Gen Wesley Clark said it will help keep Kursk for a while but make no difference in the outcome of the war. He says this about Biden’s general war strategy: “War doesn’t work that way.”
I think O’Biden is just trying to delay the collapse until after he leaves office so Trump can be blamed.
Of course he’s staying silent. He’s already on record a dozen times warning about WW3. Does someone need to hear it again? Would it matter? No and no.
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