TARGET RUSSIA: Ukraine Ups the Ante With Strike on Russian Airbase, What's Next?

Eastern European leaders have recently called on NATO to give Ukraine the green light to strike targets deep inside Russia.

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A Ukrainian drone attack on two Russian airbases raised the stakes in the months-long conflict and has already resulted in a missile onslaught from Russia that, once again, targeted the country’s power infrastructure.

Ukraine did not claim responsibility, but Mykhaylo Podolyak, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s adviser, tweeted, “If something is launched into [an]other country’s airspace, sooner or later unknown flying objects will return to departure point.”

His message came after the call from Eastern European countries to give Kyiv the “green light” to hit targets deep inside Russia.

Edgars Rinkevics, Latvia’s foreign minister, said last week that NATO should allow “Ukrainians to use weapons to target missile sites or air fields from where those operations are being launched.”

He said allies should “not fear” escalation.

Al Jazeera noted that the attacks, if orchestrated by Ukraine, would be the deepest inside the Russian heartland since the invasion.

If it was behind them, they would be the deepest attacks inside the Russian heartland since Moscow invaded Ukraine on February 24.

Ira Straus, the chair of the Center for War/Peace Studies, wrote for the Atlantic Council that the U.S. “and others have placed limits on acceptable targets for the arms they provide, while also demanding assurances from Kyiv that these weapons will not be used inside Russia itself.”

But he argued that “self-defense is a basic right of every nation and includes proportionate lawful retaliation. This is essential in order to deter international aggression. Ukraine’s partners should be facilitating the country’s ability to exercise this right, not undermining it.”

The Trends Journal reported extensively in October that the White House gave Ukraine a wink and a nod before its strike on the Crimean bridge.

The Western media embraced the bridge bombing as though it was another major setback for Russian President Vladimir Putin, who days later approved airstrikes in about a dozen Ukrainian cities, including Kyiv. 

Russia immediately blamed Ukraine for the explosion. The video seemed to have been recorded sometime in September, weeks before the bridge attack. Maria Zakharova, the Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman, said Kuleba essentially admitted to state-sponsored terrorism. 

Ukraine sees Crimea and the bridge as legitimate targets because Russia uses these areas to store ammo and other military equipment. 

TRENDPOST: Gerald Celente has long said that we are led by mentally deranged people who want war with Russia. And they get away with it because our media has been neutered. Presstitutes don’t seek truth, they get paid to put out by their government whore masters and corporate pimps… they screw for those in power.  That’s why the damning G.W. Bush prank that exemplifies what a complete, arrogant, moronic little Georgie Bush is was never picked up in the mainstream media.

Agree or disagree with Vladimir Putin’s statements, in the Western media there is just one side to the Ukraine War: Russia aggression. 

Totally ignored are the United States and NATO actions that were, to Russia, moves of aggression that we have greatly detailed in the Trends Journal, as well as the U.S. led coup of Ukraine’s ruling president in 2014. (See: “VICTORIA “FUCK THE EU” NULAND WHO SPEARHEADED OVERTHROW OF DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE IN 2014, STILL IN POWER.”)