WIII: U.S. Set to Provide Ukraine With Longer-Range Weapons: Reports
The thought in Washington is that Russia is less likely to use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine
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The Biden administration is reportedly close to announcing a new multi-billion-dollar military aid package for Ukraine that will provide Kyiv with a weapon system that can strike deep inside of Russia.
Reuters, citing two U.S. officials briefed on the matter, reported that the next injection of over $2 billion in military aid will include the Ground Launched Small Diameter Bomb made by Boeing. Reuters said these have a range of 94 miles. The report said the U.S. has “rebuffed Ukraine's requests for the 185-mile range ATACMS missile.”
The Trends Journal reached out to the State Department and Pentagon for confirmation. Neither responded. These rocket systems are compatible with M270 launchers and HIMARS.
If made official, it would be another example of U.S. President Joe Biden completely disregarding earlier statements about preventing a world war. He once said that providing tanks would be the start of WWIII and he also once said that the U.S. would not provide Ukraine with weapons that can strike deep within Russia.
We note in this week’s Trends Journal that Rob Bauer, the head of NATO’s Military Committee, said in an interview Saturday that countries in the alliance should begin to enter a “wartime economy” in preparation for a “direct clash with Russia.”
He said it was an urgent matter to increase the production in the defense industry, and harkened WWII when car plants were transformed to produce aircraft and ships.
“In the first four years in the U.S., in the Second World War, in the Ford factories, there were no civilian cars made, but only military production…And that is, in a way, talking about wartime economy,” he said.
Mykhailo Podolyak, a top adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, said in an interview last week that it is only a matter of time before major Russian cities like Moscow and St. Petersburg are targeted in strikes.
“Internal escalation of the war in Russia is inevitable,” he said in an interview picked up by the Daily Beast. “Cities that are pampered, lazy, that thought they lived in a different reality, such as Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Yekaterinburg, will be subject to strikes.”
Just hours after the U.S. announced that it will provide Ukraine with its M1 Abrams tanks, a top White House official admitted that there is an ongoing debate in Washington about providing Kyiv with fourth-generation F-16 fighters.
John Finer, the White House deputy national security advisor, said in an interview last week that the U.S. is “willing to consider” sending these jets to Ukraine and is “discussing this very carefully.”
Ukraine has been pushing for the U.S. to provide these fighters since the first Russian tank rolled into the country on 24 February.
Despite the scores of billions of dollars of weapons and aid sent to Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine’s minister of foreign affairs who said no country has done enough to help Ukraine, tweeted that Kyiv has “new tasks ahead,” and identified western fighter jets as a goal.
TREND FORECAST: President Joe Biden has insisted that the U.S. is not a participant in the war, even though it has provided Ukraine with some $115 billion in military weapons and aid.
Dmitry Peskov said Russia “categorically” disagrees with comments from the West stating that these weapon shipments do not mean direct conflict with Moscow.
“In Moscow, everything that the alliance and the capitals I mentioned are doing is seen as direct involvement in the conflict. We see that this is growing,” he said.
Biden continues to make the imbecilic comments that providing these weapons pose “no offensive threat” as though these tanks don’t have the ability to roll into Russia. He insists that these tanks merely help Ukrainian troops “improve their ability to maneuver on the battlefield.”
Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of Russia’s security council and close Putin ally, said the evolution of the war shows that the U.S. and NATO “intend to continue making efforts to drag out this military conflict and have become participants.”
He said that the end of the conflict will not stop the “Anglo-Saxon world will not stop the proxy war against Russia and its allies.”
And the morons don't think Russia will use LONG RANGE WEAPONS on the USA? Sadly, that's what the neoCON zioCONs want, so they can hide out in their bunkers and STUDY nuclear war.