America’s nominal “president” Joe Biden on Sunday announced that he was authorizing Ukraine to launch long-range U.S. made missiles into the heart of Russia, potentially sparking a world war between nuclear-armed powers.
Then he wandered off into the Amazon rain forest. No, seriously.
The fallout has been explosive. Ukraine just two days later launch six ATACMS missiles into Russian territory.
The pre-dawn strike on an ammunition depot in the Bryansk region was confirmed by U.S. and Ukrainian officials, as well as the Russian Defense Ministry.
The Russian Defense Ministry claimed that its air defenses intercepted and destroyed five missiles mid-flight, with the sixth causing a minor ground fire from its fragments. No injuries have been reported.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov warned of escalating conflict with Washington if the reports are further confirmed.
The Kremlin’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov was equally alarmed by NATO’s provocation.
He described the alleged decision to authorize such strikes as a "new spiral of tensions."
Russian President Vladimir Putin had warned that Ukraine's use of NATO-supplied weaponry on Russian territory would provoke an escalation tantamount to "war."
"This will mean that NATO countries — the United States and European countries — are at war with Russia," Putin said.
Ukrainian President Zelenskyy said that the strike is part of the country's "victory plan."
The Ukrainian president had recently acknowledged that Trump's election meant a higher likelihood of peace.
“I appreciate President Trump’s commitment to the ‘peace through strength’ approach in global affairs.,” he wrote. “This is exactly the principle that can practically bring just peace in Ukraine closer. I am hopeful that we will put it into action together.”
Donald Trump also said that he was not elected to “start wars,” but to “stop wars.”
The Biden-backed missile attack came on the same day as Russian President Putin lowered the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons.
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