By admin 
News broke on Sunday that President Joe Biden has done so authorized Ukraine will use American long-range missiles to penetrate deeper into Russian territory. After the U.S. gave Ukraine the green light to attack targets on the Russian side of the border earlier this year, the Ukrainian government and its biggest cheerleaders in Washington have pressured the president to support longer-range attacks — especially after Ukraine had launched his invasion of the Russian border. Kursk region. On Sunday they got their wish. The first rocket was on Tuesday launched at a target in the Bryansk region of Russia.
This move worries many in the West. In September, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered one change to Russian nuclear doctrine. Under the changes, the Kremlin now considers an attack on Russia carried out by a non-nuclear state with the support of a nuclear force as a joint attack. Also, according to the new doctrine, a conventional attack that poses a “critical threat to Russian sovereignty” now meets the official threshold to provoke a Russian nuclear response. Yesterday those changes happened made official.
The American weapon system that the Ukrainians are now using is the Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMS. They have a range of 300 kilometers and, most importantly, require the US or its allies to provide targeting coordinates whenever shots are fired. So the US is not only allowing the Ukrainians to fire missiles deeper into Russia, but also actively helping them to do so.
Six days ago, China opened a deepwater port in Chancay, Peru, 5,472 kilometers from Washington DC. US officials and aggressive commentators convicted They called it a “security threat” to the US because they believe it is in “America’s backyard.” Yet the same group is now cheering as the Biden administration directs the U.S. military to help Ukraine launch missiles at targets in Russia, just over 100 miles from Moscow, with no apparent concern about the Russian response.
The official position of the US government appears to be that Putin is a psychotic maniac who considers himself one quasi-religious figure in conflict with the West, And that he is expected to keep a cool head as he watches the US violate the line established in Russian nuclear doctrine by helping to launch missiles deeper and deeper into Russian territory.
The other factor making this escalation frustrating is that Biden’s political heir, Kamala Harris, just lost the election and the popular vote to Donald Trump – who was largely concerned with bringing the ongoing conflict with Russia back from the battlefield to the negotiation. table. Biden appointees and other top foreign policy officials have been very explicit about their desire to “Trump-proof” their Ukraine policy. This policy change may be an attempt to do so.
In other words, Biden officials and unelected bureaucrats are working to undermine the next administration’s ability to implement what voters want — all in the name of ‘protecting democracy’.
Fortunately, the impending transfer of power in Washington gives the Russians less reason to escalate in response to these attacks. Especially given the months of consideration Biden spent on this move reportedly gave the Russians time to move critical military assets out of reach of the Ukrainian ATACMS. As provocative as this move is, the likelihood that it alone will trigger World War III remains very low.
That said, a world war between two governments, armed with thousands of city-killing thermonuclear weapons, is so unfathomably dangerous that any increase in the risk of one breaking out – no matter how small – must be considered unacceptable.
The best, most up-to-date account of how a nuclear war could break out and play out comes from Annie Jacobsen’s terrifying book from earlier this year: Nuclear war: a scenario. Just reading the prologue (which is available for free in Amazon’s preview), in which Jacobsen explains what would happen in the minutes after a single thermonuclear bomb is detonated over an American city, makes it clear that such an event would be a would be a catastrophe. far beyond the various “threats” the establishment is trying to scare us. It’s almost comical that we worry about something else.
Most experts who study nuclear deterrence agree that a “limited” use of nuclear weapons is likely to quickly accelerate to a full nuclear exchange. And in the event of a large-scale nuclear exchange, American cities are not expected to be hit by a single bomb, but by tens of them – with hundreds of smaller towns also targeted and radioactive winds causing painful deaths among those initially spared.
So it is absolutely insane that Joe Biden is starting his lame-duck period by explicitly crossing a red line that the Russians said would justify a nuclear response. US officials have spent decades mockingly at Putin’s red lines on Ukraine –scolding because he was all talk and no action until suddenly, in February 2022, he invaded. Now they are playing the same game again, with much higher stakes.
If the government’s primary function, as we are taught, were to protect the lives and property of the American people, then its top priority would be avoiding a nuclear exchange. The Biden administration’s decision on Sunday reiterates that our so-called leaders have other priorities.