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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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The US and Pentagon getting on the train to Abilene.
1 posted on 12/12/2022 5:55:21 AM PST by PK1991
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To: PK1991; P-Marlowe

Is the pentagon run by a cult?

This is crazy.


2 posted on 12/12/2022 5:57:38 AM PST by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
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To: PK1991

We have to support our NATO ally…

Oh, Ukraine isn’t in NATO… **** em.


3 posted on 12/12/2022 6:00:23 AM PST by EEGator
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To: 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.”

Sounds like something you would read about in a history book about WWIII


4 posted on 12/12/2022 6:01:27 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: xzins

we need to get Biden out now. I think this was not a pentagon decision but was a white house decision. and yes, the white house is a bunch of cultists.


5 posted on 12/12/2022 6:01:33 AM PST by PCPOET7 (`)
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To: PK1991
Hey, we're attacking Russia! Well, not exactly us. I mean, we have plausible deniability for any attacks on Russia. We would never do such a thing. So it's all cool.
6 posted on 12/12/2022 6:02:36 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (No one is as asleep as the "woke". They define the term "useful idiot".)
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To: xzins

How does that square with our ‘War Powers Act’?


7 posted on 12/12/2022 6:03:32 AM PST by SMARTY (“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
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To: PK1991

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.

But they’re hoping if they keep kicking the hornet’s nest enough times they can trigger WW3 and get rid of the surplus population as part of the Great Reset.


8 posted on 12/12/2022 6:05:45 AM PST by Flick Lives (Cui bono)
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To: PK1991

Were the situation reversed, and Russian weapons would be allowed on US targets from, say, Mexico, how would we respond militarily?


9 posted on 12/12/2022 6:07:54 AM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: PK1991

-—Russia hasn’t responded to attacks on its territory——

..... because it lacks the means to do so.


10 posted on 12/12/2022 6:12:14 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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To: PCPOET7

Biden is not in command


11 posted on 12/12/2022 6:12:32 AM PST by al baby (Yes he did he said how come i wasnt invited )
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To: PK1991

Except it will be US troops conducting the strikes.


12 posted on 12/12/2022 6:13:15 AM PST by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: 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.”

When you deliberately leak your endorsement for media promulgation, “tacit” it ain’t. I guess the Puppet Group’s calculation is that Russia will nuke Ukraine rather than the US proper. Biden wants to go down in history in the worst way.


13 posted on 12/12/2022 6:14:10 AM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: PK1991

“tacit” - in others words, made up.


14 posted on 12/12/2022 6:14:18 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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citing unnamed US defense officials.

uh huh. Yeah, that makes it official.

15 posted on 12/12/2022 6:16:16 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: RinaseaofDs

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


16 posted on 12/12/2022 6:17:08 AM PST by exinnj
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To: PK1991

If this is true, it’s really stupid to be talking about it

... unless, of course, you are looking to provoke WW3


17 posted on 12/12/2022 6:17:26 AM PST by farmguy
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To: PK1991

Sometimes a proxy war comes back to haunt you.
In the dis-United States, a proxy war usually comes back to haunt your successor. Politically as well as militarily, especially if you are a Democrat.


18 posted on 12/12/2022 6:21:05 AM PST by Tupelo (A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand)
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To: RinaseaofDs

When Europe burns the world burns, tens of millions die and they are called world wars and the end of the humanity is constantly in the balance.

Canada, the U.S., and Mexico have nothing to do with global madness and the world has no role or requirement for survival here.


19 posted on 12/12/2022 6:21:12 AM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: PK1991

USA should only send to Ukraine:

- electrical generating equipment
- medical supplies
- temporary shelter supplies

Immediate Cease Fire

Ukraine keeps the land that it presently holds.

Russia keeps the Crimea.

In addition:

a) Russia maintains Kherson territory east of the Dnieper River that consists of a “shortest route possible land bridge” strip thru Kherson, connecting the Crimea directly to Russia

b) the remaining, presently contested Ukrainian terrority along the border with Russia, that Ukraine has not able to hold, becomes a DE-MILITARIZED ZONE where the Ukraine citizenry can return to, for agricultural activity and support

c) administration and governance of the UKRAINE DE-MILITARIZED ZONE becomes the work of both Ukraine and Russia as neighbors, helping each other to learn how to get along

d) Ukraine does not join NATO

e) Russia surrenders its grip on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant

f) Russia withdraws from Georgia and from all land that Russia seized from Georgia, since the Russian invasion of 2008.


20 posted on 12/12/2022 6:21:41 AM PST by linMcHlp
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