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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Putin has been doing all that he can for 1000 days of his “3-day war” already. He didn’t choose to lose 100-s of thousands of troops just for fun.
You, other Zeepers And ALEZ SOROS are happy about allowing U.S. Made
Long Range Rockets to Attack Deep inside Ruzzia.
ALEX SOROS. LOL
What’s up with that, The Canuck?
Could all have been avoided if Putin had just stayed within his own borders in Feb. 2022
But Putin wanted to create a war out of nothing ... that’s what warmongers like Hitler and Putin do
ALEX SOROS. LOL
Let Putin launch a nuke attack, and alienate the whole World against Russia
More proof of Putin’s vast stupidity! LOL
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